EDITING THE DOCUMENTARY CLASS INSTRUCTOR: PETER THOMPSON TRANSCRIPT FOR THE "SOUTH LOOP" PROJECT (revised 10/24/01) 001 01:00:37:00 Anarchists Time Lapse Store Front. 01:00:53:00 Interview with Anarchist at Store Front I: Tell me about what, uh, your part in this is? A: Sure, um, I've been organizing the committee organizing core section and, 01:01:00:00 uh, to do that we've recruited a large number of volunteer facilitators and put together, uh, a participant work book that will be used during the week. I: Cool, uh, what is the, what is the, first, what is the workbook? A: Sure, um, what we've done is actually take a lot of activities that people do in workshops, um, small group activities and put them all in a single, uh, workbook so we don't have to go day by day handing out sheets of paper wasting time during our sessions. It also includes lots of information about what's going on the agenda, uh, what some of the games we use to open, who our presenters are as facilitators and also who are, uh, resource people that are coming in from out of town are, so it includes in addition to that we also have some articles on the organizing that are resource people did and those are included in the packet as well. I: Okay, from what I understand you are one of the most organized presences? A: Well we're the community organizing section, we're supposed to be organized, if we weren't organized then I guess we werenıt doing our jobs. But, um, I mean the other sections will do well, y'know, in their own way. I think it's going to be good 01:02:00:00 it's just that different sections will have different takes on how to, get prepared for it. I: So, uh, what is lacking in, like, the other conventions which brought you to have your own? Kind of... A: Uh, you mean the Democratic National Convention. I: Yeah. A: Sure, well...I think, uh, most of the people recognize that, that the Democratic National Convention, the Republican National Convention, the Olympics and even some of the other political conventions happening in Chicago don't necessarily um, address the fundamental issues at stake in in our society or as people that, um, some of the stuff that we want to address is how to build a, a movement, a strong revolutionary movement, how to use organizing techniques, community organizing techniques, either to build a movement or in neighborhoods and also how to use collectives, co-operatives and alternative economics to uh form the basis, the foundation for a new society. So, no one else is really addressing that. I mean a lot of the things that we talk about are counter to what a lot of people in the Democratic National Convention, the delegates, believe that should be happening. Um, we are very in favor of remŠ 01:03:00:00 yıknow reducing removing capitalism and replacing it with a co-operative system. And doing it now instead of waiting for some mythical future, revolutionary society, that we can begin doing the work of revolution now and what this conference is is to get together as a chance to start talking about that um at a very serious level with a lot of anti-authoritarians, anarchists, and other activists. I: So there are a lot of people like (mumble) coming in from all over ? A: Oh there's people coming from all over the United States, and Canada, and probably a few from farther places than that. So, we're expecting a really large number of people. I: Great. So, um...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: I mean, always, always the discussions are important and I think as long as there is a dialogue happening in the Democratic National Convention that's when it's positive. It's when you get hard rigid platforms that can't be changed, when there's individuals 01:04:00:00 that stand in the place of groups being able to decide for themselves what the issues are and what the resolutions of those issues should be that's when you have a problem. I think the Democrats, y'know, are just a different side of the coin from the Republicans. That they represent a certain y'know, conservative liberalism that doesn't want to change much beyond the status quo. And that the Republicans also demonstrate a similar, um, type of ethic. And we are really going at it with a, with a, a, with a.. we're trying to get at a basis for what the problems are and try to come up with solutions that address those. So, issues of oppression , um, issues of capitalism, y'know, other forms of domination. We want to see if we can address those on a community level, uh, a community of affinity or a geographical community. If we can build a movement that connects different struggles even if we don't agree with each other a hundred percent we're all apart of the same movement, and we should act like that, and that we should be at a form that dual power, power for ourselves and power against...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. 01:05:00:00 I: [Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: Right...Monster truck...um, to do, to use the philosophy of dual power, where we're building up our own power by forming our own housing co- ops and alternative institutions. But also fighting the dominant structure, y'know, the hierarchical power that says that we have to conform to a certain society and act within that certain society. I: So, uh, there's going to be a lot of things going on here and a lot of energy, but how do, how do you think, um..., it will effect people from the outside, I mean the media is... A: Right. I: Carrying the Democratic National Convention and it's like a big hoopla. A: Right, well what we hope to get out of this is a lot of good trained activists on a similar page, y'know, that these are a lot of people that, that work in the same networks and the idea is that maybe we can come together and do a better job of communicating with each other and sharing information or resources to create a stronger movement or to build a stronger movement. And in that sense I think the act of resistance 01:06:00:00 is going to be extremely positive. That there will be a ripple effect beyond the five hundred or a thousand people that come to our event. That those people will take the skills and knowledge that they learned and share it back where they came from, the communities they participate in. I: Um, so also you're going to have some fun right? I mean at the DNCŠ A: Right. I: ...they have fun. A: Yeah, right, codified fun. I: I meanŠ A: Oh yeah, I mean, any movement that doesnıt recognize a social aspect and cultural aspect to it is not going to be successful. And I think we, we recognize that as well, as individuals, and as groups and as part of a movement. That, we have, uh bike rides and, uh, film and video showings, dance parties, um, informal get togethers, music, y know that's like,like that's like happening right now. And that forms, y'know, the real work of the act of resistance is not in the meetings themselves but in the interactions of the people outside of those structured environments. That the relationships that people build within those environments will create yıknow the future society that we really hope for. 01:07:00:00 I: You're going to have the parade on the...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: Right. Those, those are some of the events I think during the Democratic National Convention that as the Autonomous Zone or the act of resistance, we're not sponsoring any demonstrations, that we're weıre participating in a puppet parade on the 29th that's going to be incredible. Um, a number of talented people in Chicago and across the country, including Wise Fools, Puppet Intervention Theatre, um, has prepared an enormous puppet show with huge twenty foot puppets and some of the other artwork done at the Propaganda Gallery and the Festival of the Oppressed is just going to showcase the deep level of, uh, culture y know that is involved in the anarchist and the associated movements. I: Uh I lost my train of thoughtŠCool, um, okay you're not, you're not doing any, like, uh, protests, right, uh... A: Right. I: You're not going to any marches. Do you have anything to say about that, that ah, sectioned off protest system? A: Right, the protest pit system, 01:08:00:00 and then the, uh, major legal victory to actually have another mini protest pit next to the delegates, with like twenty individuals a day or per demonstration. I mean, that's like, yıknow taking free speech and saying, "Yeah, free speech but only when I say it's okay and in this format." I mean they, uh, they used, uh, security concerns and all that kind of stuff and I think you'll see that more and more as...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. I: Can you say that again. A: Sure. I think you'll see security, the question of security used more and more to tighten down on people's free speech. That, y'know, uh, at, a lot of the previous conventions there hasn't been violence but the people use the threat of violence or terrorism and such to, um, to prevent people from expressing their beliefs. And even although, y'know, I think there's a certain sense, at least by myself, that a lot of the protest people have planned anyway aren't necessarily as challenging as they could be. That people are going out there to just showcase an idea. And I think at this point in time, the mid-nineties, going towards the, uh, next century that we have to do more than just showcase oppossitional ideas. We have to, number one, prove that our ideas can work, 01:09:00:00 but also that, that our protests present a real threat to the system, y'know. I: It seems sort of like a...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: Right. I: ...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: Right. I: ...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]...and do you feel Chicago has any, uh, sense of, uh, ...[Undecipherable, loud car noise]. A: Right. I: ...do you think it's still there? A: I mean, I think a lot of people are gonna be playing up the 1968 events and, uh, and I...and I don't think it's out of the out of the case to think that a lot of stuff like that won't happen. I mean, you can't keep protest at such a limiting manner and not expect something else to happen and I don't think that's something we're going to be responsible for but I think just people being angry about issues is going to create, um, that the city hasn't planned for that. And that somehow those things find ways of expression that the city's just not ready for. I: So, what are your best hopes? I mean, uh, community wise, and 01:10:00:00 information wise,,, and uh... A: Sure. I: ...and things just coming together. What do you think , uh... A: Well hopefully there will continuing projects. That this isn't just a one- time conference talking about these issues. But that we also continue the discussions and develop some projects or organizations or what not, that will continue these discussions. So, collectives and Co-op's and alternative economics or maybe some organizations or projects that will get developed that will that will increase the number of cooperatives that are developed in this country. That you, that the word cooperation becomes a household word and that these people are in one way to start that happening. That at community organizing we are going to be talking about people getting involved in their neighborhoods, but also in their projects and do more organizing and increasing the capacity of people around them to effect change. Um, and I think that's going to have long term effects. And building revolutionary movements is going to, y'know, connect us with the other radical movements that are out there and give us a strategy for relating to them and, y'know, a way to cohesively come together on issues of importance across the country. So I think that this is a really 01:11:00:00 good place for these discussions to happen. Itıs a good time to bring it up with the convention and the election year coming up. But that I expect large anarchists or activists and events like this to happen more and more in the future and not just have, um, primarily social events, but social events with a purpose, with a strategy set out. I: Alright Dan, I think that... 01:11:21:00 Anarchist Street and Store Front. Trucks and cars goes by the store 01:12:00:00 Anarchist Street and Store Front. Continues 01:12:15:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:13:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:14:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:15:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:16:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:17:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 01:17:24:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed.Policemen on horses. 01:17:43:00 Weird Masked police character to parade. 01:18:00:00 Puppet Parade/Festival of the Oppressed. 001-Scene B 01:18:48:00 Treeman and Gerrardo Walk to Camera. 01:19:00:00 Treeman and Gerrardo Walk to Camera. 01:19:08:00 S: Hi Treeman. T: Hi. S: If you don't mind just, just right over here. That'd be, that'd be fine. Okay? T: Š..Unclear to what he says S: And you're welcome. T: Thank you, thank you very much. S: Just stay right there... 01:19:32:00 Reporter talks to Treeman. R1: Alright. Hi, where's your handout? Are you related to George Bush?[Laughter] T: Not now, never at all. R2: That's not Bill Plant is it? R1: [Laughs] Who are you guys with? C: Ah, an independent documentary. 1:20:00:00 Reporter talks to Treeman. R1: Alright. We gave Treeman a shot yesterday on the Six O' Clock news. R2: Who? R1: We put Treeman on last night. R2: Oh, did you. Did you recommend Ortho 101010? R1: Ha, nitrogen in the fall. Right? C: So was he pretty popular? R1: I don't know, I don't know. I'm not sure he's had such an impact yet. C: So whats gonna give him a big impact? R1: Not for me to judge. I can tell you if it happens though.[To someone off camera] Get me a shot of these guys too. C: And where are you from? R1: WBBN-TV. Here in Chicago. 1:21:00:00 Gerrardo talks to unidentified woman and camera. G: Right. OK W: [Undecipherable]...what's your name? G: Gerrardo. And here is my card W: Okay. G: And my number's 435-4548. W: Okay, so I'll be off tomorrow, I'm running out of town, but uh feel free to give me a call. G: Fantastic. W: Okay G: Alright. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. [Undecipherable]...school. She works with uh, she's trying to get, ah, the truancy on homeless kids back into school. Which is fantastic cause, ah, cause right now there's a court case in where they're trying to get homeless children who move around a lot situated in one school or, like, a hassle free, a hassle free when they get into the school. 01:22:00:00 And what she's offering is, is fantastic. Saying that we want to work on getting homeless children in school and keep them in school. That's fantastic, so we served a dual purpose today. One, a connection with, with the public schools on trying to work with homeless children and, two, bothering Daley. W: Does he seem annoyed by you guys? G: Yeah, he seems bothered. W: What does he do...[Indecipherable]? G: Um, y'know, he...he gets red. I mean, he's always red so it's kinda of hard to tell when he's not. But, ah, but ah, he's just like "yeah, yeah," and tries to wave you, wave us off. But yesterday was particularily good cause we, we were asking the tough questions, y'know. If you're saying that there is a mixed income community in Cabrini Green and that's what you want, y'know, why not in your community. He didn't respond and he just started walking quicker and just like,yıknow "get out of my way" sort of thing. So, so once the 01:23:00:00 questions get tougher, yıknow he starts...he starts walking away quicker and security starts pushing and moving people out of the way. "Excuse me, excuse me," and Bam in the car and he's gone. C: But you got to speak to him yesterday right? G: Yeah, we got to talk to him for quite a bit. I mean, I think we got to walk with him for about a little bit more than a quarter of a block talking to him. Treeman confronted by security. C: What's wrong? S: Nothing 01:23:30:00 Treeman confronted by security. T: ...the mayor arrives. G: Yeah. C: What...what...what? What happened basically Treeman? T: What just now? C: Yeah. T: Oh, he just wanted me to stay where I'm at when the mayor arrives. I said fine, that's okay with me. I have no problem with that at all. 01:24:00:00 [Overheard anonymous conversation] 01:24:24:00 Treeman mission statement. T: My name is anonymous tree. I'm just the Treeman. I2: Very good. 01:25:00:00 [Muffled conversation] I2: Whatıs the Treeman trying to say? Whatıs with the whole outfit? T: The whole outfit is, is that the mayor cares more to spend 12.3 million dollars to beautify the city of Chicago for one week for the Democratic Convention than he does for affordable housing for the homeless. We realize theyıre spending money but theyıre not making it available in the areas that needs to be done to spend 12.3 million dollars for Randolph Street for flowers and trees could give housing and SROıs to people who really need it. You know there are only 5,500 shelter beds in the whole city of Chicago and there are about 20,000 people who are homeless every night that have no place to sleep and those that were sleeping under Wacker Drive are being swept up because of the Democratic 01:26:00:00 Convention. And they then are placed with no place to go and you know the SRO"s that are being tore down and not being renovated would make excellent rooms for people. Iım homeless. Iıve slept under lower Wacker Drive. I live in a shelter now because I am homeless. And so Iım not just in this garb because I want to make an impression; I want the mayor to realize whatıs happening to homeless people in this city. I2: How did you get to be homeless? T: I got to be homeless because of medical reasons and economical reasons. The job that I had I was making $4.35 an hour and the job was phased out and that, and I just had no other job and I applied and I found hard to find work. And Iım a veteran and even at the VA Hospital I had problems getting service from the Veteranıs Administration but then it came through. And I have been just struggling as the best I can and when homeless people come up and said look we need a voice and we came up with the idea that if he loves trees more than he loves homeless people then maybe if I dressed up like a tree, heıd understand. 01:27:00:00 I2: How long have you been homeless? T:Almost six months. I2: Where did you live before you were homeless? T: I am from Chicago. I was born and raised in here. I2: Yeah but where did you live in Chicago before you were homeless? T: On the south side. I2: Whereabouts? T: On 122nd and Parnell. In Rosalind. FI: Whatıs your name? T: My name is Treeman. FI: Why did you decide not to show your face? T: The face is not important. The face and the name of the person under here is not important its what the symbol is and why I dress as a tree is because the mayor cares more for trees than he does for homeless people. So, I felt if I dress up like a tree maybe he would care about me. FI: Are you going to say something to him today? T: I say something to him everyday when I see him. Everywhere he goes, we go all through the convention. Everywhere that the mayor will go the Treeman will be there. FI: What about after the convention? T: The convention, the same thing. We are not going to stop the issue because of the convention. We are just letting people know that what he spent for the convention could have helped a lot of homeless people and the people who are formally homeless that have jobs but theyıre not making a living wage 01:28:00:00 enough to live off on. FI: What is your homeless experience? T: My homeless experience? Iıve been homeless about six months. I lost a job that I worked for in a factory that I was making $4.25 an hour and the factory shut down because it had no contract and I had nowhere else to go. I couldnıt afford an apartment. FI: And now? T: And now, I live in a shelter and I am speaking out for other homeless people who ask for a representative. P1: What does your sign say there? Treeman shows his sign to the camera I2: Do you think your message will reach the delegates who are coming into town this week? T: Oh I think so we have already had delegates that have called the coalition and heard about it and would like to be a part of one of our tours that we are giving on Monday and yes weıve had delegates from Texas and from Nebraska call and say that they want to know about it because they heard about it. 01:29:00:00 Theyıre concerned; they may be from other states but their concerned also with issues. I2: Whatıs the tour about? T: Š.People should that are coming here to Chicago should see the real Chicago and they should see whatıs going on with homeless people in the projects, and whatıs going on in the south loop area and buildings that are being tore down that could have been saved to make homes for people and the areas that where people live and where they have to live because they have no other placeŠand if they go on a regular tour, Grey Lines is not going to show them that.. but we are going to show them the real Chicago, the Chicago that should be told it should not covered up just because, Itıs the Democrat Convention coming to Chicago. I2: These plants that your wearing where did you get them? T: Where did we get these? I2: Yeah. Where did you get the plants? T: We made this costume, itıs an original costume we bought and made. I2: Where did you get the plants? Were they donated by a florist or what? T: No! Spectator1: They are plastic. T: Theyıre plastic. I2: Purchased 01:30:00:00 at a dollar store. 001-Scene C 01:30:05:00 Daley in school shakes hands with students. 01:31:00:00 Daley in school shakes hands with students. 01:31:02:00 Mayor Daley at Washington Irving School. PRINCIPAL: Good morning Mayor Daley, Mr. Chico, Mr. Bell, Mrs. St. James, parents, students, and guests. I'm Madelyn Maraldy, principal of Washington Irving school and I'm pleased to welcome you to our school where on Dec. 12, 1988 the Chicago school reform bill was signed into law. This Legislation was...(Applause) (Loud) 01:31:24:00 Mayor Daley at Washington Irving School. DALEY: [Clapping]Thank you very much Marilyn for the outstanding dedication you have provided for the children here at Washington Irving Elementary school and also your dedication to your profession as a teacher, uh, you have become a role model here as a commitment to excellence here at the school and a commitment throughout the entire system. I would like to recognize the chairman of Chicago Public School Board, Harry Chico, Paul Vallas the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Prince St. James, who is the chief operating...chief education officer. 01:32:00:00 Alderman Madelyn Haycock who is with us as well as Alderman Pat OConner who is the chairman of the education committee. The future of our city depends upon our public schools. And the future of every child here, in this city, depends upon their education. Of all the issues that I've ever dealt with this is a major issue, and the other issues are important, but this is the issue I believe in this city and I hope it becomes the issue in this country because when we talk about housing we talk about jobs, we talk about crime, we talk about all the problems within families, all the problems in the communities education is the key. We talk about hopelessness, we talk about despair, we talk about violence, and, unfortunately, it really gets around, uh, the lack of education of children of another generation 01:33:00:00 and another generation. So, I firmly believe of all the things I could to do as Mayor, and I want to do a lot of things, this is the key. This is the issue that will depend upon the success not only on this school, but the children here, of every school both elementary and high school in the preparation for every child of education here in the city. So I firmly believe that Chicago is leading the way in education reform. As president of the US congress of mayors, most mayors never ever talk about education. It was not our responsibility. It was not our priority. And so, as mayor, as I stood here as mayor it wasn't my priority, it wasn't my responsibility, then what are you doing as mayor. And that's my quote, "Why not?" Because uh if you don't take that responsibility, if you don't take that accountability of decision- making you can't lie within somebody else if you want to be the mayor 01:34:00:00 of a city. And so now, for the first time in the US conference of mayors education has been placed on the agenda. My three priorities as president of the US conference of mayors was: first, is education, second is drugs, and third is jobs. Education is number one. And so in Chicago I think we've taken a bold step of basically in placing all our children first and foremost in the eyes of the city in the eyes of this country. We have cut waste, which happens any place. And in fraud and corruption, raising our standards, rebuilding schools. And of course cracking down on school violence in and around schools. As we look at the opening, which is a exciting opening of the new year in two weeks, I think this should be most exciting day in Chicago. I know we the have convention coming, that's exciting. But for Chicago and it's children and families, the most exciting day will be in two weeks. Children 01:35:00:00 all over the city going back to school. In one of the... 01:35:04:00 DALEY: ...hired custodial staff at their local school. This program will target areas where parents need jobs and also to promote cleaner schools by using people who have a invested interest... 01:35:15:00 DALEY: ...And here's my chief executive of the school's, Lynn St. James, who has been an outstanding high school principal and was appointed chief education officer. They have done, the entire board and the management staff, have done an outstanding job, over the past year. They have worked out a long term plan, first of all, to balance the budget, far too long we would need a debate right now whether or not the schools are gonna open, parents be calling the principal, principals calling 39th St., 39th St. calling the Mayor's office, Iıld be calling the union, the union calling the Mayor, and it would create real problems in the eyes of the public because, "Can't I send my child there." I mean what am I going to do to if they're on strike or if they don't open up on time. And each year that builds up. 01:36:00:00 Maybe that person's child... 01:36:02:00 DALEY: ...so four years with a work relationship with a union, a working relationship, not pointing fingers, sitting down going over the facts and figures to come to a labor agreement... 01:36:14:00 DALEY: ...they also provide, not only in the city I hope, in this nation is education. And we're going to stay on course and I firmly believe this will be another exciting year for the children of the Chicago Public School System as well as parents. Thank you very much[Clapping]. CHICO: Mr. Mayor..., my name is Barry Chico and I have the, uh, the privilege of serving as the president of the Chicago school board... 01:36:46:00 CHICO:...of better results. But we need the support, the active involvement... 01:36:50:00 CHICO: ...of our children to do better in school. So, I... 01:36:55:00 US: ...we are going to be holding a number of events from now until that day just reminding everybody that thatıs when schools starts. And as Gary pointed out not half day but full day. When school starts we hit the ground running. We had an exciting and eventful year last year. But we have sss yıknow we have so many miles that we have to travel and that we have to travel together. I think we've made a lot of accomplishments and in many ways what we have done is... 01:37:19:00 US: ...And I think we're already seeing the results in test scores and in attendance and in enrollment and in... 01:37:25:00 US: ...parents have to get involved in their children's education... 01:37:30:00 US: ...if someone's trying to make ends meet it can be a real struggle in trying to survive in today's economy and at the same time trying to raise a family. Uh, it's ah...but... 01:37:40:00 US: ...one step fully implemented. But there is... R4: Per Year? US: Pardon me. R4: Per year? D: Per year, but they are extremely cost effective. R5: Mayor Daley, the children gave you some posters which made reference to the convention and, in that regard, while this event was taking place President Clinton was signing very controversial welfare reform legislation 01:38:00:00 in Washington and some democratic leaders here, including Congressman Bobby Rush, went public today to say that by doing that the President is risking disharmony at next week's convention because of how strongly some people feel against that legislation. Might there be a threat to party unity here? DALEY: I don't think so. First of all, ah, we've had a welfare system for a log time in this country. Monahan talked about it in 19...was it 1966, in the Monahan report and what I have said as the mayor there has to be flexibility for people on welfare to get off of welfare. And, here's an example, you will meet someone who's been on welfare and someone's going to give them a job, five, five or six hours a day, 7 or 8 dollars an hour. It's very difficult they can't do that. R5: Well theyıre on welfare DALEY: Well if you take the job you lose some of the benefits that he or 01:39:00:00 she or their child needs. And so, what has happened itıs gone on for thirty or forty years. There has to be some changes. I think everybody is cognizant that you don't want to harm children, you don't want to harm the disabled, the sick, or people who need it. But I think there has to be some change. And so, we decided, say if nothing went through, we'd be talking for another thirty years. And so, my belief in signing that legislation, it's only one step forward, you have to evaluate that legislation the same thing like school reform, you have to constantly re-evaluate. But President Clinton is not here for punishment for the bill on welfare. But I firmly believe that 99.9% of the people want to get off of welfare. But there's some stumbling blocks there. First of all there's insurance. Secondly there's early child education or basically 01:40:00:00 helping they're child at earlier ages or as a baby or as a one or two-year old. How can they get a job as with that two children at home. Daycare, and so, there is a number of things that I believe that can have a common sense approaches to the problems. Common sense. And I believe its cost effective for everybody involved. And so...nothing is perfect, but I'll tell you one thing if they don't step forward to welfare reform we'll be talking about it for the next forty years. And I...I...I know President Clinton. I know he's going to evaluate this legislation. There's a lot of people concerned about it a lot of bureaucracies concerned about it, everybody is worried about it. The bureaucracy. A lot of people are worried about it in Washington D.C. about their jobs, service providers. Everybody is worried about it. But I firmly believe that 99.9% of the people, first of all, want a job, they want to get off welfare and they want a home. 01:41:00:00 and we saw that the other day at Henry Horner. Those people dealing with housing, alternative housing, compared to the high-rise. But the second issue is a job, and I believe we have to be much more flexible on this, much more flexible for that. R6: Is it very important Mr. Mayor, at this point that this issue not be allowed to interfere with party unity? DALEY: Well, I would say to all of them , uh, that what Bill Clinton has provided just in this week, the minimum wage, the health care reform, the signing of the Welfare reform, and other things, more police on the streets, more role in dealing with education, much more flexibility from with department of education, allowing the creativity in schools to perform easier, get the money to them in a much easier way so we can spend it, and get it out to produce a product so the children are better educated. But I think everybodyhas different issues that effect them. But when it comes to President 01:42:00:00 Clinton, are you going to support President Clinton or are you going to support Bob Dole. That's the issue right there. R7: Mr. Mayor, what is the issue..(Unclear Question) 01:42:07:00 DALEY:...and, and so far we need flexibility in that and as Paul just pointed out that's what you have to get to. R8: Mr. Mayor you're, you're going to speak Monday... DALEY: Yes. R8: ...you have a bill to speak Monday and apparently a video, uh, will be played that which your Mom is going to speak at least briefly and she's, uh, going to be in awe. Um, can I ask, and I feel she's going to gather, her all twenty of her grandchildren or her great-grandchildren and all seven kids will all be there. Perhaps, how do you feel going into the first night of the convention? DALEY: I think..., I'm very excited. I'm very proud about, uh..., Chicago and, uh, this is a very exciting time to host the President, and the Vice- president, and national leaders respectively in the party, and the delegates. And, uh, this to me is, uh, a great time for Chicago. R8: Is it going to be a milestone for the 01:43:00:00 family? As your Mom's first, ah..., DALEY: Well, you separate politics from family in a sense that, y'know, in a sense that this is important but I think our family is important. You have family things that go on in your family that is the essence of families. Uh, My job is, outside, in a sense outside my family it it it... so that your family values and what you receive is strictly within the family, within your religion. So to me this is an important milestone. My Mother's living, she's up in age, and my 3 brothers and 3 sisters are here with their children,grandchildren, her grandchildren. R8: She, She rarely appears in public doesn't, but she... DALEY: Right, Yes. She doesn't. And She, uh, is careful about appearing in public. Crowds and things like that...but she's uh excited about, sheıs excited about coming to this convention especially with President Clinton's administration, and 01:44:00:00 Vice President Al Gore and Hilary and uh the gore's are going to be in town soŠ. R8: What are you going to be speaking about Mr. Mayor? DALEY: Well that would be ah...[Laughter]. Gosh, we can't release everything. It's a welcome speech and also ah you'll see. R8: Do you feel like comparisons to your Dad? He did that same speech in '68, Welcoming right? DALEY : Right, well every Mayor does that. the Mayor of New York, Mayor Dinkins did that. Ah, Ah, y'know, Mayor Young did it in Atlanta. I mean all Mayors. That's part of protocol in hosting a convention. So, we all do that. Mayor Susan Golden did that in San Diego, so that's all part of itŠ R8: You don't feel any historical... Daley: NO R8: somebody looking over your shoulder, DALEY: No I don't. R7: My understanding is that firefighters will be protesting right outside the DNC. What kind of a message does that send.. DALEY: They have a right to. Anybody has a right to protest 01:45:00:00 about any issue that concerns them and that concerns their organization. There's nothing wrong with that. R9: Mayor Daley, in relation to the wonderful pictures that's we've seen all over the[inaudible, baby noises]... have businesses along Madison St. and along other[inaudible, baby noises]... to spruce up or to beautify... DALEY: Oh yeah. I've been...All over the city I've been kicking butt in other words[Laughter]. I think, y'know, I think...I have you better believe it. Y'know property owners, they have a right if they live next door to you, they should clean their properties if they're going to live in the suburbs or live on Lake Shore Drive. You better believe it, if they have a truck company, if they have a factory, you better believe they have a right, they should clean it up. Up along Lake street, Madison street, Monroe street, Cicero, Pulaski, Halsted, Western, Ashland, 63rd, 79th, Irving. You better believe it. R6: ...lately city officials have been implying is that inspectors are going to swoop in and shut them down if they don't they are DALEY: No. For one thing I have a landscape ordinance. Their home is landscape why can't their business 01:46:00:00 be landscaped in the community city of Chicago?[Clapping] You Better Believe it. I asked them to put up instead of a...a...a wire fence, I asked them to put up a rod iron fence. That's for me, the Mayor. Iıll send any property owner that letter that owns a business in Chicago. To clean up Chicago and to make Chicago more of a quality of life issue for children walking by. R8:... some of them,..., there's something almost illegal about... DALEY: I asked them to take a broom and go out there and clean up when the children are walking by. You better believe it. So they should clean up their own property. They should clean up, they should hire some children in the community, they should hire the Christian industrial league, some homeless people to clean their property...[Clapping] I asked them to clean up the front of their street, I asked them to clean up the alley. You're right. I'll take the blame for that and I'll take the responsibility for it. R9: Sir, this morning Al Sharpton made allegations that the cities trying to disguise their existing poverty. Any comments? DALEY: No, well we know, you can go two blocks to the...you can go right to Henry Horner's and there's poverty there. Yes there is. 01:47:00:00 But we're not just looking at, I don't write books about it, I don't ask for more studies about it, we're doing something about it. We're building homes, yet the other day we announced a job training program for men and women who live there to get into the unions, to become construction people and not just for the period in building that home but for their lives. And that's the other thing we have to do is not just looking at it and writing books and giving speeches. uh you can talk to Ernest Gates, Mauve Brown from Henry Horner, all of them. They're out actively doing it You can look at the whole west side, it's changed and we're going to change it. R8: Well, after the convention, uh, will the sweep continue to carry out to beautify the West bank. DALEY: Oh, we have a snap district that...all these things were done prior to the convention, none of these things were done for the convention. Henry Horner has been discussed for 25 years in this city, the snap district was put in effect for three years, the Michael James Jordan ah, ah.... 01:47:55:00 Pan from Roosevelt Station to surrounding buildings. 01:48:00:00 Pan from Roosevelt Station to surrounding buildings. 01:48:30:00 Neighborhood Houses. 01:48:40:00 South Loop Building pan to neighborhood homes 01:49:00:00 Neighborhood Houses. 01:49:13:00 Pan Roosevelt Road. 01:49:48:00 Porch in South Loop. 01:50:00:00 Porch in South Loop. 01:50:04:00 Roosevelt Road Sign. 01:50:17:00 Porches in South Loop 01:50:31:00 Sidewalk of Neighbor hood street 01:50:45:00 Graffiti under Bridges. 01:51:00:00 Graffiti under Bridges bad neighborhood. 01:51:06:00 More Graffiti under bridges ­ 2 shots 01:51:44:00 Truck under bridge 01:52:00:00 Truck under bridge continues. 01:52:03:00 Skyline Park Lofts sign / under construction 01:52:14:00 Homeless men with shopping carts walk by townhouse construct. 01:53:00:00 Homeless men with shopping carts walk by townhouse construct. 01:54:00:00 Homeless men with shopping carts. 01:55:00:00 Homeless men with shopping carts. Pan to luxury townhouses 01:55:42:00 Grant park Beautification.Stairs to statue 01:55:55:00 Park Worker doing work in park 01:56:00:00 Park Worker doing work in park 01:56:08:00 Park worker from a distance doing work in Park around the steps to Statue 01:56:35:00 More workmen at the park working 01:57:00:00 More workmen at the park working dolly out to statue 01:57:29:00 LS of Workman working in park by tree 01:57:33:00 Grant Park statue horse legs 01:57:39:00 wide shot overlooking grant park with buildings 01:57:59:00 Tape Ends. 002 First Ten Minutes 02:40:00 Treeman at the office shows sign which reads If I dress like a tree will you care about me? Zoom out to office activity. 02:58:00 JOHN: (talking to child at CCH headquarters.) What do you want, you want housing, you want a home? Is that what you want? KID: (back to John, shyly) Yea. JOHN: Yea, (unintelligible) What do you want? KID: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? KID: Now. JOHN: What do you want? KID: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? KID: Now. JOHN: What do you want? KID: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? KID: Now. JOHN: Lets go. (John and kid exit room and meet up with Treeman and others. They walk toward exit.) 02:01:40:00 TM: (to all in room.) Donıt nobody bring their dog to pee on my leg either. (laughter from all in room) I can see, yea. We had a dress yesterday so weŠ.(unintelligible) 02:02:02:00 (crowd outside CCH gathering to walk to Mayor Daleyıs house. Treeman joins crowd some talking is heard but is unintelligible) 02:02:38:00 JOHN: (to crowd) And we want this community to remain a mixed income community. And we have been in conversations with the city administration, but they donıt want to listen to our numbers. Now they are Šitıs true they are building 2 new SROıs in the south Loop, but theyıre willing to destroy the 1000 02:03:00:00 units of single room occupancy housing that already exists here, and they have not agreed to build any family housing, while the fastest growing population among the homeless is women with children. And so weıre going this morning to visit the Mayor because he promised to meet with us, and has not done so, and we have to come to no agreement about what a mixed income community in the south Loop would look like. Weıre the south Loop campaign for development but not displacement. So weıre gonna walk over to the Mayorıs house have a little rally, tell him the Treeman is coming, and ahŠ.then weıll come back and weıll have some breakfast. Okay? CROWD: (Muffled response of acknowledgement) JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: So you guys are waitinı CROWD: OH YEAH JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. 02:04:00:00 JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? 02:04:06:00 (crowd walks toward Daleyıs house) TM: If I dress like a tree will you care about me? (crowd joins) TM&CROWD: If I dress like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress like a tree will you care about me? 02:04:28:00 (crowd still walking) JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley, the Treeman is coming! (crowd joins in) CROWD: The treeman is coming! JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming! JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming 02:05:00:00 JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley JOHN: The Treeman is coming! CROWD: The Treeman is coming (Police in squad cars arrive and order protestors onto sidewalk.) JOHN: (To crowd) What do you want? CROWD: Housing! JOHN: What do we want? CROWD: Housing! JOHN: We donıt need flower pots. CROWD: We donıt need flower pots. JOHN: We need homes. CROWD: We need homes. JOHN: We donıt need flower pots. CROWD: We donıt need flower pots. JOHN: We need homes. CROWD: We need homes. JOHN: We donıt need flower pots. CROWD: We donıt need flower pots. JOHN: We need homes. CROWD: We need homes. 02:05:40:00 JOHN: (walking on Mayor Daleyıs block)Ša tree. CROWD: Should I dress up like a tree? JOHN: For you to care about me? CROWD: For you to care about me? JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. 02:06:00:00 CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. 02:06:05:00 (crowd in front of Daleyıs house) 02:06:10:00 JOHN: Everybody gather around behind theŠ. the Treeman there? Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: Hey Mayor Daley. CROWD: Hey Mayor Daley. JOHN: The Treeman is coming. CROWD: The Treeman is coming. JOHN: What does the Treeman have to say today? (John puts bullhorn in front of Treeman) TM: If I dress up like a tree Mayor Daley, will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress up like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress up like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress up like a tree will you care about me? TM&CROWD: If I dress up like a tree will you care about me? JOHN: Well we brought the Treeman here this morning. 02:07:00:00 I donıt know if youıve seen the Crains Chicago this week. They estimate 180 million dollars for the convention to be spent. Mostly on beautification projects; flower pots and trees. And weıre here today, homeless people dressed like trees because what we need is not flower pots, we need trees. And we are here to campaign just before the election and we finally met with the administration and came to no agreement about what this community should look like. Now if the Mayor proposes a mixed income community for Henry Horner Homes, Cabrini Green, tell him to put his money where his mouth is, in his own neighborhood. This community should be a mixed income communityŠ.excuse meŠ 02:08:00:00 (Police Lieutenant walks up to John) PL: I just want to tell you one thing, the noise levelŠ.(unintelligible)Š 02:08:04:00 PL:Š.your going to have to tone it down. JOHN: Iım going to tone it down a bit. PL: Tone it down a lot more than you are doing. JOHN: OK PL: Because youŠ.(to crowd) you can gather in closer to him so you can hear. JOHN: (whispering into bullhorn) well, what do you guys want? CROWD: (softer than before) Housing. JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing JOHN: When do you want it? CROWD: Now. JOHN: What do you want? CROWD: Housing JOHN: When do you want it? 02:08:23:00 CROWD: Open the door Richard, open the door (laughter)open the door Richard Open the door Richard why donıt you open that door? JOHN: Treeman come on up here now. We are debuting, introducing the Treeman. Treeman why are you here this morning? TM: (to crowd) Iım here because Iım a homeless person, that lives in a shelter and, and it seems like the mayor cares more about 12.3 million dollars for trees and flowers for one week for the Democratic Convention and nothing for homeless people. 02:09:00:00 It isnıt fair for people like myself and others that live in shelters, live under lower Wacker Dr. that we canıt find an SRO to live in, we canıt find a place to stay to be safe, but we can walk down Randolph and see plants and trees for $12.3 million dollars when it only takes less than 15,000 dollars per room to renovate the St. James. CROWD: Yeah, WoooŠ.(clapping) JOHN: (to crowd) Have you ever seen a talking tree before? Amazing, Iıve seen a talking horse you know, a talking cow, but here we have a talking tree. CROWD:YEAH! TM: And you will see a lot of me all this week and next week all over the convention, all over Chicago be ready Chicago, the Treeman is here. CROWD: Woooo! JOHN: Not only Chicago, but especiallyŠ. TM: Especially Mayor Daleyıs neighborhood. I will be here Richard. I will be hereŠ JOHN: Not just in the hood, but wherever the Mayor is. TM: Wherever the Mayor is all this week the Treeman will be there. 02:10:00:00 CROWD: WOOO!! JOHN: Letıs have a hand for Treeman. Stay up here now Treeman youıre the hit of the show. Ten minutes missing here! A man: People in Chicago, Thank you Crowd: Whooo John: Housing for the needy! Crowd: Not for the greedy! John: Housing for the needy! Crowd: Not for the greedy! John: Housing for the needy! Crowd: Not for the greedy! John: Housing for the needy! Crowd: Not for the greedy! John: Housing for the needy! Crowd: Not for the greedy! John: Is he coming, The treeman is coming! This is Robin umŠ Robin Maclure Crowd: Whoo 02:10:45:00 RM: Good Morning, I am a single mother of three great boys. I was put out of CHA because of gang violence there is no space or affordable housing in the city of Chicago for a single mother who wants to keep her children out of gangs or away from drugs. I ask major Daley to do what you can to help me and women like me. I have two children that are with me, who are musicians, who are into singing, they are constantly performing. Matter of fact they were performing for the President next week. Now if I can keep the out of gangs and keep them safe Iım sure you can find me some kind of affordable housing where I can maintain some kind of dignity and show them that everything is not bad about this city. Crowd: Cheer for Robin 02:11:30:00 John: Robin would you like to live in the south loop? Would you like to be Major Daleyıs neighbor? How does that song go Mr. Rogersıs neighborhood? Wonıt you be, wonıt you be, and wonıt you be my neighbor? John w/ crowd: Major Daley, wonıt you be, wonıt you be, and wonıt you be my neighbor? Wonıt you be, wonıt you be, wonıt you be my neighbor? What do you want? Crowd: housing! John: when do you want it? Crowd: Now! 02:12:00:00 John: Now we have Madeline Tilbin from acorn here. Madeline why donıt you come on up here and lead us in a cheer and say a few words? Madeline: Un audible John: Itıs not just us, right, itıs over 80,000 people in the city of Chicago will be homeless this year, you know. And we know that the Major has spent 12.3 million dollars just on flowerpots. And, if you read Cranes Chicago it says, "Primping Chicago has cost 180 million dollars. And they couldnıt spend 2.9 million dollars to rehab the St. James, What is that? And their building town homes in the south loop that have seven bathrooms? Now the people at the St. James share a bathroom, 30 people on one floor have to share a bathroom, not even two blocks away their gonna have a home with seven bathrooms, thatıs obscene. Thatıs wrong. 02:13:22:00 Crowd: AgreesŠ John: If the Major talks about a mixed income community whatıs wrong with having these role models living next to them. They donıt want more, they just want some, you know? Some housing, right. And jobs that pay a living wage? Right Crowd: Yeah! John: Gatta pay the rent, right? Wanna pay the rent, wanna work, we need jobs that pay a living wage. We need housing in this community in the South Loop. So, now are you ready to really sing it out? Crowd: Yeah! 02:13:56:00 John: Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard? Richard why donıt you open that door? Open the door Richard! Who wants to work? Crowd: Yeah! John: Who wants a job? Crowd: Yeah! John: Who wants housing? Crowd: Yeah! John: You want to live in the South Loop? Crowd: Yeah! John: Alright, Now we are going to ask Mark Jolene from StateWide Housing Action coalition- (cut to-) John: Here is Keith Keller from local 880, Heıs wondering off there he got up a little early this morning. There he is Keith Keller from Local 880 SEIU service worker. (Sound low, camera sits on crowd) 02:14:46:00 KK: Thank you. (Inaudible) Š campaign for the living wage, because if we donıt have living wage jobs you canıt get good homes and good apartments in the south loop next to Major Daley, hopefully. But, we are here today to say that labor supports you, we support you. You work with us on the living wage campaignŠ we would like to say, we need a living wage and living wage jobs to make sure we can live in the South Loop and we are calling on the Democrats to act like Democrats. Calling on the Major to act like the Democrats that they are, hopefully and actually support a living wage ordinance in Chicago that will make it available for people to get good jobs at 7.60. Thank you very much. Crowd: Yeah! 02:15:32:00 John: Now after the big protest in 1968 Major Richard J. Daley said, " Those protesters what trees did they plant?" Well we are going to plant a tree, were gonna set down our roots in the South Loop. Get ready major we are going to plant a tree in your neighborhood. You can take away our homes, you can take away our jobs, but you canıt take away our roots. We are going to put down roots in the South Loop and that is the significance of the tree man. What do you say Treeman? TM: Treeman says Richard open the door, cause we are here. Crowd: Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard? Richard why donıt you open that door? Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard! Open the door Richard? Richard why donıt you open that door? 02:16:32:00 Crowd (RM with sign): Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! Housing for the needy, not for the greedy! John: Šnext week okay. I just wanted to let Major Daley know that the Treeman is coming Crowd: Yeah! Treeman: Now, I told you Iıd be here. Iım a man of my word are you a man of your word. You said you would meet with us, why havenıt you met with us? (The crowd walks away from Daleyıs house) John: Open the door Richard, Open the door RichardŠ Weıll be back; Weıll be back, cont. Crowd: (as the walk away) Weıll be back! Weıll be back! 02:17:52:00 (Camera catches up to John and asks, "Howıs it going John?" John: I think itıs going okay, huh? What do you think? I think we got their attention, and today was just to debut the Treeman. The Treeman will be following the Major where ever he is during the convention so his father said, "they donıt plat trees", referring to the protesters. This really isnıt about protest, itıs about housing for people who have to live on the streets, you know? This ainıt about protest. Camera Kid: See you later 02:18:26:00 Group of protestors walking back to the projects: I want a JOB so I can EAT! 02:19:20:00 (members of CCH enter the office and talk about the protest.) 02:20:10:00 (John and others talk about protest) JOHN: I mean we had a package. JOHN: Tribune? Tribune was there? PREPPEY GUY: Well, a photographer, no reporter was there. But weıll probably get a photo out of it. JOHN: Well, I saw WGN was there. PG: Channel 7, 32. JOHN: Oh really? WOMAN: FOX was there, yeahŠ.you saw 7? JOHN: Mark told me 7, 32, and 9. P.G.: Alright, so now we'reŠ. Thinking JOHN: Getting ready , Wednesday, tomorrows Wednesday, 2 o'clock, we'll get together tomorrow at 2 to plan for Saturday. P.G.: Ed is driving Treeman around? JOHN: That is correct, yeah. 02:21:10:00 (various shots around interior of CCH) 02:21:39:00 (Gerrardo takes breakfast orders) ROBIN: inaudible GERRARDO: (spanish) ROBIN: That's itŠ.(inaudible)Š.does that every day, on the radio, I'll be like GERRARDO: Tony, Tony Antada WOMAN: (pointing to kid) He's going to have hotcakes. GERRARDO: Hotcakes. 02:22:25:00 CAMERAMAN: So tell me about what happened this morning. WOMAN: Letıs hear from the young people. What do you all think? BOY: It was exciting. WOMAN: Exactly, next time your going to speak right?Šyou a little nervous this morning. Next time you going to speak to Mayor Daley. Itıs funny you can play but you canıt talk long as he can get that saxophone and go, but not talk. ROBIN: He sayıs thatıs his voice, the saxophone is his voice. CM: Tell us what youıll be doing at the Democratic National Convention. BOY: They gonna (nail?), the Whitney high school band. We just going to sit thereŠI donıt know how close weıre gonna be to them what else we are going to do to him. We are going to play for him and the other people that are around there. CM: What would you like to tell President Clinton? 02:23:25:00 BOY: I want to tell him everything that is going on in Chicago cause I donıt think he is too familiar with it all the way in Washington. CM: And what would you say? BOY: I would tell him about how Mayor Daley is treating the homeless and how he is putting plants before people and how they are clearing everybody from under um lower um Wacker Drive. CM: How do you feel about that? BOY: Itıs wrong. WOMAN: We are going to give him a contract, a youth contract there and hand to him that outlines the youth, the things that youth want. CM: What does it basically state? WOMAN: It talks about um job training, support system, there needs to be more money in the state budgets to support the homeless and itıs um probably a counteract of the contract of all America that the republicans put 02:24:25:00 together, but this one is actually a contract with Americaıs youth , not a contract on America, like the one Republicans put together. So we are talking about um quality job training and welfare reform that supports the family notŠnotŠtransitional and permanent housing why we know transitional housing is not the answer. Itıs definitely a need until we have permanent housing educational opportunities (inaudible) that youth donıt have, that talk about cutting out loans for youth and equal rights for immigrant youthŠ. Thatıs kind the contents of the contract. 02:25:25:00 CM: What is the contract so how are you going about this whole processŠhow can you vote when you are homeless you donıt have an address or anything? WOMAN: Well you donıt have to have, they can use the address of where they are, a shelter or Wacker Drive or wherever they can use that address to register to vote and weŠwhere we train some of the homeless people in their shelters and even in surrounding neighborhoodsŠaround the different shelters so itıs going to work. CM: How are you going to get the homeless to the polls in November? WOMAN: We haveŠthatıs trickyŠbecause we have, becauseŠwe can encourage and get them out but we have to make sure that it does not appear that we are telling them how to vote. But turn out is very important not only with the homelessŠbecause we wouldnıt be struggling with this republican administration that we have if people in general had gone out and voted in the last election so nobody got out to vote, so we are encouraging 02:26:25:00 and saying that it is just as important to get people out to the polls to vote as it is to registerŠif they stay at home itıs still not going to work so we encourage them as we register them, we talk about getting them out to the pollsŠwe can send out flyers and we can talk about getting them out to the polls to actually vote and I think that things that we did this morning making sure the homeless understand and know the issues it wouldnıt be as difficult to get them out and let them know they can indeed register to vote where they are and that political empowerment is just as important as any other empowerment effort that we are doing because that's all the politicians listen to, they donıt have the care and understanding that we have to think about can this group vote me in or out of office, unfortunately. 02:27:22:00 ROBIN: (already speaking) schoolŠwalked in and the sheriffs department said who are you? I said this is my apartment and he said not anymore and he handed me some papers, ok, and I read the papers saying I had been evicted and stuff like this and I said, well, when do I go to court and nobody gave me the papers to go to court, oh they were given to somebody on the porch to give to you, I said but I thought you had to give me those papers. No we donıt have to put those in your hands as long as we give them to someone on your floor to give to you and I never understood that because I was always told that eviction papers, you were always supposed to be served directly with them because you were supposed to sign for them and that never happened so I said look can I get just a few things packed to the side that I can take them somewhere with meŠno you canıt take this stuff to one of your neighbors houses because then they will get evicted for keeping your things in their house which I thought was asinine. 02:28:28:00 ROBIN: (already speaking) ŠDo what I had to do because Iım the one that had to live there and I came in from school and they were grabbing all my stuff and I went into my bedroom to get my mother, my mother had, my mother passed away about nine years ago and she always wore this gold chain with a heart on it and it was on my shelf and I went in there to get it and it was gone and I think that upset me that that was missing more than anything else besides pictures I had of her and my dad because both of my parents have deceased and I think because, God, I if I couldnıt get anything else I wanted that to go, I wanted to give that to Robert becaused he always liked it. She had always said to make sure Robert got it when he was four but Robert would get it when he went to college..anyway. CM: So tell me about this other part, now your homeless 02:29:28:00 ROBIN: YesŠso whenŠ CM: Now what? ROBIN: Šand you know it was so strange for the way they did mine because usually the set peoples stuff in the back of the building instead of setting my stuff in the back of the building they set my stuff out in front of Cottage Grove in the street, and than all the people who set my stuff out had a big sign that said 40414 which is the building we live in apartment 509 so that everybody would know this was my stuff sitting out there and I guess she said I kept I made a lot of problems for them because everytime I saw something going on I would like ask questions about it and the janitor came back and said Robin I am going to have to tell you they treatin you like this because they want the other tenants to know that if you donıt keep their mouths closed this is what will happen to you Šand I thought, God, and a lot of times they came to me with things going on 02:30:25:00 because they knew I worked for Rural Crisis Intervention Network and I would call people and find out stuff like that and so I guess itıs like he said I was made an example of so after they had set my stuff out I had asked one of the people outside one of the people to keep my stuff while I went to the school to get my son and I went to the school to get Robert and my nephew and I told them what was going on and they said ok and so they went and got my stuff and I took them to different people in the buildings housesŠ CM: Now youıre homeless, what did you do next? ROBIN: The first thing I did was call Rural Crisis Intervention, to let them know what was going onŠ.in the next meeting Š and his wife said 02:31:25:00 told me Robin just stay there we will get there as soon as we can um. One of the parents came over from the school and said Mrs. Adams, who is one of the SDRıs who worked at the school and said Mrs. Adams to come here because she wants to talk to you and I said well I canıt leave my stuff and she said girl just leave your stuff because she wants to talk to you so get over to the school . And I went in and Mrs. Adams takes me to the side and she says, Listen get what you can carry take it to my house my kids are waiting. She said thereıs uh, she had ah, she had ah three room apartment on the first floor her daughter had just moved out of and she said listen you guys can stay there until you get your feet on the ground Šshe said give me a little give me what you can give me and I donıt mean toŠyou need to save you some money she said so and get what you can so we took what we could carry to her house and um, she got of work and came there, and I had classes cuz I was still going to school for the crisis center. CM: What did you know about homelessness now that you dint before the experience? ROBIN: I never thought that homelessness meant women and children. I never thought that. I always thought homelessness meant, Homelessness was some one was an alcoholic, usually a man, who hung out on the 02:32:25:00 street. But when I became homeless I began seeing, God there are, that this mostly women and children. And itıs not your fault and itıs not, a lot of time its just circumstances, and even with me right now (laugh) I run into officialsŠŠ.Who says things to me nowŠlike this thing I was going through with the board of education where I was calling trying to get Robert Rinaldoıs school specificŠwho is head of the homeless education department, I said to her about Robert going to King HS I said listen he canıt go there right now because the gangs are, are trying to kill us I need to put him somewhere where there are very few gang members and somewhere where he will be safe. She gave me the names of two schools and said well this is his only choice I said both of those schools are gang infested and she said well take a 02:33:25:00 chance, I said excuses me you want me to take a chance with my chills life, you have to give the schools a chance and I said excuse me if this was your child would you send them there and she said listen donıt go there with meŠbut than again Iım not the one whoıs homeless am I? Excuse me this is a person who works for the board of education making $67,000 a year and this is her attitude toward homeless children.. I mean there's something wrong with that before they hire these people they should ask them how they feel about the homeless you know. But her attitudeŠshe talks down to homeless people even parents. She talks toŠ she is one of those people who ŠI mean a person who is not real strong to her she would break them real quick, they wold be like there's why am I even trying. CM: So how did you feel as a person? ROBIN: When I ran across her I wanted to choke her to death I would tell youŠIf I had been face to face with her I probably would have been rolling on the floor and what really upset me with her and most of the 02:34:25:00 people I deal with, boy these are all black women, black women, thatıs putting my black sons through this. Excuse me, you have made it, your job, I mean to me I transgress all black people when you make it out, itıs your job to reach back in there and pull one more person out of there, not be the one more person out of there not be the one that says well I made it out too bad for the rest of them. Untuh, untuh. To me they should be the ones trying to fight for the rest of us up out of there. 02:34:50:00 (various shots around CCH headquarters boardroom, with Robin and others watching the video from the morning rally) 02:35:50:00 MAN: (inside van with Treeman and others) What we weıre going to do this afternoon was go to TGM to Susanneıs motherıs and tell them about it. TM: Do you know that John Donahue and the thing about Treeman, got picked up in Madison Wisconsin? MAN: Did he really? TM: Yeah, my son called, he told me it was on the CBS affiliate in Madison last night about a demonstration in front of the Mayorıs house, and I said Œyouıre kiddingı and he said ŒNo.ı MAN: CBS affiliate? TM: CBS affiliate in Madison, WI. See I told him I hadŠ MAN: No I didnıt see CBS there either. TM: CBS and WGN are they all owned by the same? MAN: ABCŠ.ABC I thought, did anybody see onŠ. WOMAN: Gonzo did. MAN: What? TM: It was on FOX last night. MAN: Did you say gobs of it? 02:36:50:00 WOMAN: GonzoŠ.he saw it, it was really brief. MAN: Yeah, I was going to say that it was probally really breif. MAN: Well, when I went to St. Leonards house today to drop off something, a couple of the guys were like ŒSo whatıs the Treeman doing today?ı and then I told them all I was thereŠ.this guy, he isnıt allŠ.he didnıt quite put it all, but he remembered he saw us all walking past St. Leonards yesterday. TM: You know what would have been a good caption shot, when that city worker came off the blue truck to get a bottle, if they had come out from the tree trimming department and said ŒI care about you,ı that with his hard hat, that would have been some picture, you know that? 02:37:55:00 (various shots inside van) 02:38:05:00 TM: Hey was Streetwise there yesterday, at Daleyıs? WOMAN: No. TM: They were supposed to be, they committed that a camera would be there, cause Jennifer said she told John ŒWe will be there Tuesday morning with a camera,ı and she was going to write somethingŠ.ıcause there was one cameraman there I didnıt recognize with a 35mm. I thought I would invite him in. GERRARDO: That was the Tribune. TM: No, I know the Trib. Heıs the one that asked my name. I wouldnıt tell him, you know? I told him I was anonymous tree. The Reader guy was. TM: Oh, was that the Reader guy? WOMAN: No, No the Tribune Guy. MAN: The Reader guy is going around with John next week. TM: Yeah. MAN: He should have come around this week, we may be doing more this week. Next week isŠ Are we doing the banners. TM: No. WOMAN: The banners gotŠ.. 02:39:01:00 (CCH members and Treeman go to see Mayor Daleyıs speech at the CAPS meeting in the park) CM: (to man) What are we doing right now? MAN: Huh? CM: What are we doing right now? WOMAN: Weıre going to where the Mayor is speaking with the alternative police force at um, Ekhert Park, which is um, in the middle of this Puerto Rican community, itıs a pretty poor community actually, (to Gerrardo) whatıs the alternative police force? GERRARDO: CAPS, Community Alternative Policing Strategy, itıs probably just to say ŒLook our system is workingı (puts up quotation marks) "Bullshit!" and you know itıs wonderful, itıs keeping all the gang members out of the area where we want to gentrify especially this area, this is one of the biggest gentrifying neighborhoods in the city of Chicago and uhŠ. CM: What exactly do they do, what exactly do they stand for? GERRARDO: CAPS? Well supposedly the police department to work together with community groups and uh, uh to better the neighborhood, get rid of the gangs and stuff, and thatıs the whole idea, but in realityŠ. Ten minutes missing here! 02:40:13:00 Group walks with TM to CAPS ceremony across a park. 02:41:01:00 Suits waiting for things to begin. 02:41:46:00 Man: Very attractive outfit wonder if he is hot, probably is. CM: What do you represent? Man: The Chicago Police Department CM: Can you tell about whatıs going on here today? Man: A community policing event, uh, essentially we have events all week, um, (PA interrupts: inaudible) Treeman was there I didnıt see him, he looks hot be sure he has enough fluids. 02:42:34:00 Nice shot of Treeman walking along a fence with Daley and his people walking on the other side. (Choosing to miss some of the introductions: an officer at the podiumŠ blah blah) 02:43:53:00 MD: Thank youŠNAMESŠmembers of the 13th police district advisory council and police officers, fine citizens. First of all I would like to express my condolences to Police district commander Janet Peska and the passing of her mother as commander? pointed out. She is attending those services in Florida and I know our prayers and our thoughts are with her, with the commander and her family. Today the Chicago police department again the community policing strategy is a model for the nation, especially here in the 13th police district. Itıs a model for community policing arena. As we began community policing and this is not just some PR stunt announced by the Major and the super intendent. The committee was thought up by the citizens and the police department working together, because many of the suggestions and changes over the years have come from the local advisory council in each district, and the police officers on the beat with in each district given us suggestions and improvements about community policing. The officers in this district have reached out to young people, businesses, block clubs, community organizations, as well as churches of all denominations. Basically it is a partnership of building a safer better community. This district has one of this citiesıs most active bike patrols, which is working to keep parks areas and commercial districts safe for the residents. Theyıre aggressively removing graffiti from the buildings in this district. Over a two-day period last month more then 350 buildings were cleaned thanks to their efforts. You will see a demonstration to get street lights 02:45:56:00 STILL MISSING 5 MINUTES OF DALEY 02:50:00:00 (Treeman walks toward Daley after speech) 02:50:04:00 REPORTER: Pardon me Treeman, whatıs the point? TM: The point is he cares more about trees and flowers and beautification for the city than he does for homeless people. He spent 12.3 million dollars to bring, plant trees and bring flowers for one week. And there are only 5,500 beds a night in shelters uh beds and there are 25,000 people a night that have no place to go. He wonıt deal with SROıs. He wonıt meet with us. And itıs a impact why spend that amount of money if heıs not going to deal with homeless people? REPORTER: Treeman, when you are not being a tree, what do you call yourself? TM: Iım homeless, Iım a homeless man. REPORTER: Your name? TM: Iım anonymous REPORTER: Thank you. (reporter walks away) (Mayor walks toward Treeman) 02:50:48:00 MAN: Mr. Mayor, we would like to talk to you. DALEY: Keep planting those trees. MAN: We are, we would like to invite you to our tree planting. GERRARDO: Mr. Mayor, My name is Gerrardo, John would like to have a meeting with you, 02:51:00:00 weıve been trying to get a hold of you for quite some time now and , um, we havenıt been able to get something going here. SoŠ WOMAN: You have to dress up like a tree to get attention. (laughter) GERRARDO: Weıd rather weıd rather see $12 million going to programs to help the homeless you know, rather than keeping them off Wacker Dr. (unintelligible) MAN: Mr. Mayor, are you going to erase homelessness like you do graffiti? GERRARDO: Is your community going to be a mixed income community like Kabrini Green is? Thatıs what weıre asking for. (unintelligible) If Kabrini Green can be a mixed income community, why canıt yours? DALEY: Have a nice weekend. GERRARDO: Are you afraid of something? DALEY: Have a nice weekend. MAN: Mayor, Mayor, you got to talk to the Treeman. DALEY: Bye Treeman (laughter) 02:52:00:00 (Daley gets into Limo after being approached by Gerrardo) (Camera goes haywire as reporter makes fun of Columbia camera crew) (Treeman gives interview) 02:53:00:00 TM: (already speaking) for the beautification of the city of Chicago (change camera) 02:53:05:00 TM: No, it doesnıt have $15 million GUY(unintelligible)ŠThey have a bed for every homeless person in Chicago. TM: They DO? There are 5,500 beds in the city of Chicago, there are 25,000 people a night that do not have a place to sleep. Because there are not enough beds. There are more homeless people than that, but only that many people canıt get a bed. Where are they supposed to sleep? They canıt sleep in the park, they canıt sleep under Wacker, their stuff is destroyed, their belongings are destroyed, where they gonna go, what are they gonna do? Theyıre right, they have a place to to live, they have a right to live, they vote. They can vote now, they can vote people in. They can vote people out. The object of it is, donıt forget homeless people they are veterans that served. I was a veteran, I served. And I find no place to live. REPORTER: What is your name sir? TM: My name is anonymous tree. REPORTER: Iım calling you Treeman. TM: Thank you, no my name isnıt important, I speak for all homeless people in the city. 02:54:00:00 REPORTER: Watch out for the dogs. TM: Dogs donıt bite me. Thank you. (Treeman goes with other to get into van) (CCH group leaves as two women say goodbye to Treeman) 02:55:04:00 (Treeman and crew are in van( TM: Iım alright, Iım ok, donıt worry about me. MAN: All right, (clapping everyone cheers) Treeman, all right! NEXT STOPŠ. TM: He came over to the park and we were going along the fence, channel 2 was there right on topŠ watching me walk as he was on the other side of the fence, all the channels were there today. MAN: And he said ŒKeep planting those treesı and thatıs exactly what weıre doing this Saturday. (yelling unintelligible) MAN: Thatıs what we are going to say. (yelling unintelligible) TMŠPlant trees..We are going to plant them alright. MAN: They are going to start publicizing them events (Unintelligible) MAN: Who asked him that question? Did you ask him that question? 02:56:00:00 (laughter and talking not clear) (Group discusses adding additional treemen and press until end of reel) MAN: in the demonstration. That he got up to early and left too early when we got there. That means he didnıt get up too early and leave.. GIRLS: (Unintelligible) MAN: They are growingŠ GIRLS: (Unintelligible) MAN: well, well we are going to do it Saturday. God that was fun. Saturday when we plant the tree out front. TM: Yeah of course the treemans gotta be there when you plant the tree. MAN: Did you see the look on his face when he turned and the treemans standing there. God what am I doing here that guy is nuts. TM: Hey (Unintelligible)is that all you got today JULIE: Yeah, that is it for today. MAN: That is all that we know. TM: That was awesome Man: That was really awesome. TM: and Jerome you got it all? JEROME: yeah TM: already buddy I gotta see that MAN: Did you see the one cop try to block the light? 02:57:00:00 TM: Yeah. Yeah. TM: (Unintelligible) (people in van discussing the day and the daley confrontation) (Mumbleing and broken audio) 02:58:00:00 (still shooting in the van on the way from the Daley confrontation) (Unclear to the conversation) MAN: (Unclear) We could always come dressed up as trees. (unclear), well who else was there? Channel five andŠ(Unclear) DRIVER: Well what is he saying? I want to know what he is saying. Whats treeman is saying? MAN: (LAUGHTER) VANGIRL:Well when he first came over he was like we never got a picture of this guy. How did I miss this guy? Who is he? (they all start talking at once.) MAN: Well we talk to him We talked to Andy Shaw yesterday at the demonstration. 02:59:00:00 MAN: He saw treeman. But he really didnıt want to do anything about it because we really didnıt have the presence TM: (unclear) The tribune today. MAN:Then they saw the Tribune today. (they all start talking over eachother) (UNCLEAR) Man The radio (they all start talking over eachother) (UNCLEAR) TM: Anybody look through the times. MAN: No, No. MAN: The one reporter ,was it that one guy from 44, the first guy that caught you, and (unclear) Š What did he ask you? He asked you why are you here? And everybody asked you your name its great that you donıt give your name. I mean its like, Who is the treeman? Then he says I am a homeless man (unclear) I speak for all homeless. (LAUGHTER) (end with the shot of the people in the back of the van with laughter) 003 03:00:41:00 TREEMAN: He was a stronger leader but she just blew up and he said why do you ask me a question like that at this press conference? We are not talking about issues like this. Why donıt you ask me questions that mean something? He blew up at uhm the guy from the daily news. SANDY: What question was that? TREEMAN: He asked him about oh he says how come your not he says how come youıre not living in the house you own on Longwood drive? 03:01:00:00 When he was major you know he lived in Bridgeport area but he had a big beautiful home in Beverly Hills on Longwood Drive and he wouldnıt go out there because the people there would not uh at the time some supported him and some didnıt. Remember Ed we talked about this that time he had a beautiful home. BLACKMAN: (getting out of the van) inaudible They going to the field house. They said uh what the hell. Burning up in there. (closes the door) 03:02:16:00 John: Mayor Daley this is at the press conference at the park (tv noise in background). The treeman is following him. Weıre right in front of him. (laughing) You should see this. He says thatŠinaudible. (laughing) What if the Treeman was in your house? Inaudible. Pardon. Ah, yeah I do. Fax it to me. Do you have my fax number? 435-0198 Yeah, okay see you tomorrow Dave. (laughing) T: Watch this now. Watch this. J: WBEZ. WBEZ? Inaudible. (tv noise with the Treemanıs speech) 03:04:00:00 (laughing and clapping) And so I should call you Treeman? (interrupting) and Charles says just call you Treeman. T: Then you know what he told this young man. Get a hot of this tree canıt get his camera to work. Heıs geting a shot of this. (inaudible) 03:05:00:00 (clapping) The mayor told us we have to plant more trees. T: More trees. He said plant more trees. (several people talking at once) J: Exactly what weıre going to do. (everyone leaves the conference room) part of the picturesŠ(inaudible). MICHAEL: Thatıs funny we got somebody for pulse too. J: (inaudible) MICHAEL: Was it pulse? Okay, I call him. Ah, got that. J:Š(inaudible)23rd Ballpark. MICHAEL: Thatıs ballpark. J: I mean itıs a little bit more. MICHAEL: Man, yeah. J: See you in the morning. MICHAEL: Yeah, yeah. UhmŠ. J: What were you going to say? MICHAEL: I thought I needed to talk to you about your assignments. J: Iım good to go. 03:06:02:00 JOHN: Oh, Michael that is to complete in other words we already weıve already put out the majority of it. This we already put out this we already sent them some money cause I think I signed the check for that. MICHAEL: Right, right. J: so this is the complete list? MICHAEL: yeah, we need we need more postage for the rest of the bulk mail. These should be going today. J: Okay. (phones ringing. John walks away) 03:07:00:00 JOHN: (picks up the phone and dials) Mark Russo please John Donahue (pause) Hey Mark. How are ya doing? They just did a great hit over at uh Ecket Park uh Daley was there with Caps and uh (laugh) the Treeman followed him right to his car and all the media was in his car. And Daley kept saying, oh I love trees, I love trees (laughs) Then they said what about when they went to your house? He said, uh yeah, I got up early I like trees (laugh) as heıs getting in his car he says keep planting those tress. (laughs) Anyway, Andy Shy had a big ah ah big conversation with him on tv yeah he said 03:08:00:00 Whatıs your name? He says whatıs your name. Iım the anonymous tree. He says, Okay, Iıll just call you Treeman (laughs) So yeah, yeah its great. Anyway, I called you about this press release weıre gonna do our first tour at noon on Monday. The reason we are doing it is because the Baltimore Sun called and I locked her into that tour. At noon weıre going to build around that you could mention that and the other hum. No weıll have, weıll have people there. Alright. 03:08:47:00 Right, right. Well, there's a thing called Chicago plan 21, and it was started actually back 20 yrs ago. And it's really gentrified the North Loop and the West Loop. And our offices are in the South Loop and for a long time there have been abandoned buildings around us and all of a sudden the mayor moved into the South Loop into a place called Central station, which interestingly enough was the station where blacks would come up and get off the train being freed from slavery and then would just go a little bit south to stay at the Bronzeville Y and some of the hotels here on Wabash. 03:09:47:00 And a lot of people especially homeless and very low-income people have made the South Loop their home. including 700 people in a shelter, Pacific Garden Mission. And approximately 1000...pardon? (Digresses about Henry Horner homes) Henry Horner homes are actually in the West Loop and that's an interesting thing too because we fought a long battle in the West Loop when Chicago's Skid Row was torn down. And we initially won the Chicago Low Income Housing Trust Fund to which Presidential Towers, who built on Skid Row, got breaks from the city and tax-exempt bonds to do it, built 4 luxury high-rises and were originally held to 20% of the units for low and moderate income and they were exempt by Dan Rostenkowski in a tax bill in Congress. We fought for 10 yrs and finally got 03:10:47:00 them to chip into the low income housing trust fund on a regular basis, 7% of the units at Presidential Towers for low very low income people and 1000 project-based section 8 certificates to have our allies build housing for the homeless...and that's being implemented as we speak. But it was like ten years in the West Loop and... ...now it's happening in the South Loop and we're saying it's time to draw a line in the sand, and our South loop campaign is for development without displacement. And we're saying that if the mayor is willing to use tax-increment financing, to spiff up his neighborhood and that means for the next twenty-three years the increment in taxes won't go to the schools or the parks or public transportation, 03:11:47:00 we're saying then that a portion of that money should be used to preserve, rehab or replace 1000 single room occupancy units in the South Loop and build at least 600 new housing units for homeless families which is the fastest growing population among the homeless. Well we have gotten two new single room occupancy hotels that are going to be built in South Loop, which is about 370 units, that are being built by our allies...Central City Housing Ventures and Lakefront SRO corporation but the 1000 units that are already here are in danger 03:12:47:00 because of the zoning changes. They are hoping that somebody will buy these hotels, knock them down and do some up-scale economic development. And so we've lost about 3/4 of our single occupancy units already in Chicago and now we stand to lose more in the South Loop. And what we're saying is the mayor is talking about a mixed income community for other communities in Chicago, including Horner Homes and Cabrini Green, and we're saying well what about your own neighborhood, if you're proposing that for our neighborhood, what about your own neighborhood? Yes. Yes. And during the convention we know that he spent $12.3 million just on flower pots around the city and he's also in Crane's Chicago, 03:13:47:00 the business magazine in Chicago,said that the tab is up around 180 mill. for spiffing up for the convention. And of course the city says all this stuff was in the works anyway, but Cranes is questioning that and we question it too, I mean, there is a lot of paint and fences and barriers and flowerpots going up and very little housing for people who need it. Well, I think that tourism is a valid way to raise money but shouldn't be at the cost of services and the needs of people. I mean 03:14:47:00 you know there was a woman who, last night, who had to swing her four children on kiddie swings so that they could get some sleep you know. I mean there are 5500 shelter beds in Chicago but on a given night there are 15,000 people homeless in the city of Chicago. And... That money is going to be spent on spreading showcase downtown further out and the neighborhoods are not going to see much of that money, and not be improved and what we're saying is if the money is going to be spent on the South Loop, then we should be part of that, and there will be more jobs. We're also in the campaign for living wage jobs in Chicago and we're saying that 50% of the jobs that are being developed in the South Loop: 03:15:47:00 in service jobs, hotel jobs, then let people live close to their jobs and make them good employees by paying them a decent wage with benefits. And so we are actively as part of our campaign, looking for the jobs that are going to come out of this development as well. Well his father was an organizational boss and his base was in the community. And he had the troops. Daley, Richard Daley Jr., his base is the big high rolling developers; his base is not people but money. And he is very punishing and very vindictive. 03:16:47:00 And its just the case in point that he's promoting a botanical park on Miegs Field, which is the small airport in Chicago. And a lot of businesses are against it because executives can fly in and out very easily, but they're all afraid to speak out, and that was the point made in Crane's business. Now Crane's business is not this wild magazine, this is the business magazine in Chicago and it made the point of the fact that people are afraid to speak out because Daley controls so much through these high rolling upscale developers in Chicago that are making moneyhand over "foot" ??? <---mumbles. Because he has ways of punishing people through zoning, cutting down subsidies, just for instance, people who provide 03:17:47:00 services to the homeless, he has sent word out that nobody could go on vacation during the convention and to keep the homeless people at home, because we promote our demonstration etc it's going to be hard to get people out because those people have the word already, and if they...right......right. And if they go against that their funding will be cut off. 03:18:15:00 J: Are you going to fly one of these things? Superman flew! Huh?(laughs) TR: I don't know. I just don't know what to tell Jay Leno next time he calls, how I much I want it. (laughs) (a third party turns on speakerphone) 3rd: Well I'm going to leave this up with John and Treeman okay, and I'll put you on speaker, here you go. Q: Hello? J: Hello. Q: Hi is this John? J: Yeah Q: How are you doing? J: Okay Gordon. Q: Great, and is Treeman with you? TR: Yes he is. J: Treeman's here. Q: What's your name? TR: Well my name is anonymous Tree and I remain anonymous because I'm speaking for both homeless men, women and children‹and my name really, no disrespect to you, is unimportant I'm just the Treeman. 03:19:15:00 Q: So I saw the pictures in today's tribune. TR & J: Uh huh. Q: And uh, I guess, I have a feel of what you're doing, but why don't you fill in some of the details of how you decided to do the campaign,and.... Q: ...how long has it been you been working on this issue? 3,4 yrs? John: Probably 2-3 yrs. we've been working on this campaign and it's actually a campaign that we started with the Presidential Towers in the West Loop against gentrification. You know Presidential Towers was built on the old Skid Row, destroyed 2500 units of housing and pushed the poor out of the West Loop and it took us 10 yrs to get some units of Presidential Towers and some resolution to that problem that in the West Loop, but we decided to draw a line in the sand in the South Loop and say, if the mayor is willing to move in and spend 03:20:15:00 city dollars to the tune of $250 million dollars in his own neighborhood then the people who live here already should get housing and jobs on a priority basis. And the reason that we're using the symbol of a tree is when the 1968 convention happened, then-mayor Richard Daley said about those protesters, "they don't plant trees..." Q: That's right. J: Right? Q:Uh-huh. What trees did they plant? J: "What trees do they plant?"And then as you know Tom Haydon was going to plant a tree with the mayor and then they didn't do it etc. right? There's the symbol again and then the fact that they spent $12.3 mil on planters, flowers and trees. 03:21:15:00 We came up with the Treeman who says: TR: [reads from press release] The Treeman says that if the mayor can afford to spend 12.3 million dollars to beautify the city of Chicago for one week for the Democratic Convention by putting flowers and trees along Randolph and other streets. Why can't he stay to his commitment of helping homeless people ....(audio goes in and out)you know heıs committed to a mixed income community in his own south loop neighborhood...that's what he says, but you know he rejected plans to improve 186 affordable units at the St. James SRO just one block from his home. And you know it's just that there's homeless people like myself, are tired of sleeping under Wacker drive and in shelters when all this money...and I mean I know they do some things but they're not doing enough, you know I'm not saying that they're not doing anything because that's not the proper statement, but they're not doing enough, you know? Q: Well you guys have had at least a couple of victories especially recently right? J: Yeah, well have they agreed to build two single occupancy hotels in the South Loop... 03:22:15:00 Q: Right. J: one by Central City Housing Ventures, and one by, uhm, Lakefront SRO, which will be about 370 units. Q: Which I know you guys take at least partial credit for basically scarying them so much that... J: The deals wouldn't have happened without our advocacy efforts they wouldnıt have happened. Theyıve also, we've also been able to stop the vacate order at the Roosevelt hotel and w got the city to give the St James Hotel $100,000 to hard wire alarm it so that people would be, be able to sleep in a safer condition. Q: $100,000 to hard wire alarm it? J: Right. You know the program that we helped the city develop under the..after the Paxton hotel fire? Q:Right. J: We finally got them to free up some money to do it at the St. James and some of the Lakefront SRO buildings, J: but the single room occupancy hotel is100,000 units are still 03:23:15:00 an endangered species in the South Loop because they've been zoned for commercial and office use. So the city although they themselves won't destroy these hotels, are hoping that some high-rolling developer will buy them, destroy them and then build strip malls and uhm, you know Whole foods etc. Q:Right. J: Right Q: Um... J: But the Treeman has a saying that he says: TR: The saying is if I dress up like a tree mayor Daley will you care about me because he cares more for trees and flowers than he does for homeless people. Q: So Treeman TR: Yes. Q: Tell me about yourself. TR: About myself? Q: Yes. TR: What would you like to know? Q: Well, uhm first of all how did you get sucked into wearing the tree suit? 03:24:15:00 TR: It was an idea that came up in the homeless people in the community wanted a spokesman, and so we decided that what would be nice would be because he loves trees, why doesn't the tree be a spokesman for the homeless community ‹and so I volunteered to do it and I am glad that I did because I am homeless and I am one of the voices that wants to be heard. Q: How uhm, how did you hook up with the coalition? TR: I met the coalition during a voter registration drive for homeless people, when I saw what they stood for and what they did, I wanted to be part of it because here I was a homeless person registering to vote, with a bunch of other men, women and children who there at this rally, and I thought "My Gosh, this is really a neat thing, here I am homeless, and I can vote, here I am homeless and I can do some volunteer work for some organization that's fighting for my rights and the rights of other people. Q: How long have you been homeless? TR: I've been homeless for almost 6 months. 03:25:15:00 Q: Are you from Chicago originally? TR: I'm originally from Chicago, was born and raised in Chicago, went to school here. Q: Let me think for a second. So tell me what the rest of the plans are, this is not coming out for awhile so if you can tell me what's going on and it's not going to show up anywhere, what other rights do you plan? TR: Are you talking about John or me? Q: Whichever. TR: Go ahead John. J: Well we are going to follow the mayor around as we did yesterday, we ambushed him at HH homes, and today at Ekhardt Park at a CAPS event, It'll be probably on Andy Shaw's segment tonight on channel 7. A lot of the press was there. Q: Are there specific demands the Treeman is making? J: Well the specific demands are uhm, put your money where your mouth is, make the South Loop a mixed income community, 03:26:15:00 which means preserve, rehab, or replace the 1000 units of single room occupancy rooms and produce 600 units of housing for homeless women with children. Q: What was the thing before the produce 600 units? J: 1000 single room occupancy hotel rooms, and 1000 SRO units and 600 family units in the South Loop. Q: Got it. So a total of 1600 units of housing is your goal? J: Right. Q: Additional, not counting what they're putting in now. J: Plus 50% of the jobs. Q: Right, to build all this stuff. J: Right, right. And we could count the 370 units... Q: So part actually you're a third of, are those all SRO units? J: Those are all SRO units. Q: So you're a third of the way towards to that total. J: Right. 03:27:15:00 Q:Alright. Well let me think that probably just about covers it. J: Okay. Q: Now could you do me, there's two things, really can you fax me a copy of your flyer from yesterday? J: Sure. Q: And the other thing is, did you guys, Gerado said maybe you took the photos today? J: Yeah. Q: Could you send me some? J: Sure Q: Or I'll tell you what, you're probably getting them developed now. J: Well, we have. What do you want a photo of Treeman? We got it. Q: Oh yeah? J: Should we faxed that to ya? Q: The picture I would like to take and give it back to you in a few weeks J: Okay, how are you going to get it? Q: How about if I come down right now and get it? J: Come on and get it. Q: Alright, in fact you don't have to fax the flyer, I'll just come on over. J: Yeah come on over. Q: Okay I'll see you in about 25-35 minutes J: Alright. Q: Thanks. J: Yep. Q:Bye John. (hangs up) J: Where are those photos TR: Judy's got them, remember you gave them all to Judy? J: I gave them back to Judy, right? TR: Yeah I'll tell her. 03:28:15:00 J: So we should have some of those ready when this guy comes over. (John walks around in office.) 03:28:40:00 JOHN: (on phone) Right. Okay. Great. Okay bye. (hangs up) they're going to "clean" under Wacker Dr. tomorrow at 7:00 and we have gone. We have a suit against the city on this and they have to follow certain procedures, give warning, let people move their stuff. Our problem has been that uhm they want to clean on both sides of the street in some parts and they only plant signs on one side of the street and if somebody takes too much time, they get a little nasty and they donıt ask if anything is unattended, they just throw it away. so the judge did not give us a temporary restraining order, but he said lets see how the procedures work and weıll come back in two months, 03:29:40:00 and he said you can come back earlier if something happens. So it's really important for us to document what is happening down there and observe and be aware of what the uhm rules should be and if they can be improved... INTERVIEWER: So tomorrow night is an official visit? J: and usually they clean in the morning, but for some reason they are going to clean at 7 PM tomorrow night andŠ INTERVIEWER: and we know this? J: we know this, the City has called our lawyer, they have to call our lawyer to let them that they're doing it so it would be interesting to go down there. .. I am going to go down there tomorrow early just to see if the signs are up, they have to post them 12 hrs before INTERVIEWER: What do the signs say? J: Street cleaning, off-the-street cleaning...Now it's real interesting, they don't 03:30:40:00 go down the street cleaning, they go straight to where the encampments are, they clean there and there and there, but they don't do street cleaning. so it really is harassment, but at least they're saying people can move their stuff and move it back again, they are not saying you have to leave, so. 03:31:08:00 Meeting with TV blaring. 03:32:08:00 " " 03:32:30:00 FORMER CHICAGO SEVEN MEMBER: (standing in large hall) I chair the Department of Environmental Health Sciences: I direct the Center for Occupational Environmental Health. I direct the Pollution Prevention Education Research Center. So I'm the big important guy. INTERVIEWER 1: Let me ask you something. I'm just curious. I mean you yourself have an important relationship with (inaudible). CHICAGO SEVEN: I think activism starts when you can bring people together uhm in ways that make sense to them.The war made sense to them..The civil rights movement in the south did. INTERVIEWER 1: (garbled) CHICAGO SEVEN: So in the sixties, you had things that captured people's imaginations. Today you still have things that capture people's imagination, 03:33:30:00 but you also have this counter-balancing force of, I think of extreme anxiety about what they're going to do when they graduate from school. So, I have all these graduate students. Who are Master's level students who are terrified they have to learn anything difficult, because it might affect them getting a job. (Rubs mouth with hand) And I think that the general culture (raises both hands and makes pushing down motions) is very depressing and stressful in terms of whether the society has meaningful work for them. See, we never had that (right hand broad gesture) (garbled). The sixties was a very rich period in America. I never felt once in ten years, thought about having to get a job. Never played in. I meanŠwe always sort of figured there was jobs out there. 03:34:30:00 Well, you don't have that anymore..And so..I don't I don't think anybody's idealism has change a bit. Umm everybody here is pretty young.. Uh everybody's idealistic..Everybody would like to do things. Everybody'd like to improve the environment. One, there's no simple organization, like, like ways to do that. There's no coalitions that bring people together. And then there's this other over-riding stress. And so, how you recreate, uh new kind of demonstrations and actions. I think it could be done overnight. But it will take conditions that will do that. And I can't define that. My son, uh, you know has already been involved in anti-one eighty seven demonstrations in California. On his own. INTERVIEWER: How old is he? CHICAGO SEVEN: Thirteen. He was in his first demonstration when he was eleven (chuckles, beams with pride). And it wasn't because of me. He knew that there was something wrong with 03:35:30:00 the immigration issue. So these kids are all there. It's what they don't have is what we had in the sixties was some organizational forums that enabled us to function on. You know, I think that's the social isolation of Americans is a serious problem. So people tend to operate on their own windows, if you will. And we have to break away from that. I think, I think some of Clinton's stuff is good, in that respect. But then he had to have this ninety-four Republican Congress come in and , and ever since then all he's been trying to do is survive. It's not good. So. INTERVIEWER: Two quick, quick questions, if I may. 03:36:16:00 CHICAGO SEVEN: Chicago.. I smoke now (smiles). So in many ways, this is a reunion of people who still see themselves as, as relevant. But we also should know that new generations of kids will have to create their own time. It can't .My son can't recreate my time. It's gotta be his time. Right now, he's mainly interested..in surfing off the Malibu coast, but ah, but very socially involved so. INTERVIEWER: You spend uh, sorry go ahead. INTERVIEWER TWO: (garbled)..your own son? CHICAGO SEVEN: I..I think a few things. And I don't necessarily have it all thought out. I think courage is important. Lots of times you're going to have to make judgements that can affect your lives. 03:37:16:00 My life has been profoundly affected by being in Chicago seven. Here I was this super scientist and ever since that time, I've had to prove myself, because people immediately think of you as a quote (makes quote mark gesture) political scientist. When in fact the integrity of science is one of the most dear things to me that there is. So the Chicago has profoundly affected all of us. I would much prefer to spend an hour with you some time and tell you what I've done since. I do all sorts of really good things and nobody knows nor really cares. And that the uh so tragedy of it is that you're always remembered by that period. But aside from that, I think to take chances and have courage is really important. I think uh, I think we could've done better with humility rather than as much arrogance as we had. And I think that's important. I think, I think, uh, 03:38:16:00 trying to umm be completely dedicated to uh the sort of social values that Abby exemplified. In terms of trying to improve life for people. Uh, I think Abby was unique in our experience and and now I think they have to learn a lot of skills and work, work their asses off because most people have lost a lot of skills we know that, that uh it takes something to organize a demonstration. It takes knowledge to run a quote mimeograph machine, which we don't do anymore. But uh, you know that kind of concept. So, I think that, I think that the kids need, I also think the kids need a focus and they'll join. INTERVIEWER 1: In sixty-eight, you had Vietnam was the focus and all the issues. Right now what is their focus and if not what could be is a focus what is it? CHICAGO SEVEN: Well, uh, I don't think there is a focus. 03:39:16:00 I think maybe the welfare stuff over the next few years may create one. Environment will create one. See, the environment's gonna create one (screen goes black). 03:39:33:00 INTERVIEWER: (interview at St. James hotel, sitting down) So where are we right now kevin? KEVIN: Right now we are at the St. James Hotel at 1234 S. Wabash. This is my room 422 ah I was homeless up until 7/13 of 96. I went into a program which deals with people with depression suicidal thoughts stuff like that so the requirement for, for me to stay here is to take my medication go to groups like Baileys Living twice a week. Ah and just you know talk to someone you know when I feel like the medication is not working let the doctor know she can either increase my dosage or change my medication to something different. Ah this this is mines you know its 03:40:33:00 its alright I just sprayed for roaches so that why you don't see too many, but other than that you know it's better than sleeping in the allies and missions and different shelters like that, Ah it's just something I can call mines for the first time in a long time you know and I'm pretty excited about that you know uh like I said it's just a room but it's got a bed and tv you know other than that i'm pretty happy about the arrangment I have with Threshold Assesement. INTERVIEWER: So living ah here at the St. James what's ah, how's that, howıs that fit in how's that fit into your future? You know how you know what does it mean? KEVIN: well, what it means is for me that if I can manage here for another month or two then I'm 03:41:33:00 going to move onto another place that's better that's nicer...nicer neighborhood and what I'm doing now I'm trying to put some managability back into my life. I worked with this agency ah I worked with this agency here....(el passes) INTERVIEWER: Let's do that part over because of the train. So what what how's this living in the St. James helping you? KEVIN: By living in the St. James it's it's ah for right now trying to put some structure back into my life some managability which uh my life has been unmanagable for a long time because I got to the point where didn't nobody cared. I didn't care first of all about myself that's how I ended up on the streets and doing the things 03:42:33:00 I've that t've done led up to a lot of different situations where either people didn't want me around certain people or I didn't want to be around so so but living here has given me a sence of security that ah now that I'm able to wake up in the mornings and go out and look for gainful employment which right now for different things I have going on in my life that it's okay for me to work at a agency like this which is all workers its a temporary agency which pays $4.25 an hour so I feel comfortable with starting off slow so I've worked from anywhere 2-3 days a week with them that's enough for me to feed myself and get paid once a week which is every Friday and ah, right now its feeling good today I just made another accomplishment. I applied for a telephone... you know so that's goin' to be a bill that I'm going to be responsible for 03:43:33:00 and its going to be like to see how can I keep up, you know my bills and when I pay them on time and stuff like that and you know right now I'm kinda excited about trying to get back into society as a functioning person and stuff like that ah, I said like December. I said like December I said like December when I got out of California's Correctional Facility and moved back to Chicago , which is my native land ah, I didn't see this in the future. I couldn't see down the line because I was parolled to the streets with no place to live, no income and I kinda feel like 03:44:33:00 I was just a victim you know ah, more than a problem ah reason I said victim because for 2 years and 9 months of my life I was housed, I was fed you know I didn't have to worry about anything but once they released me they released me back into the streets with no place to stay, no source of income so basically what they was telling me was we'll keep your cell cause we know you'll be back. Ah, that's how the system is set up. But, me being the type of person that I am. I consider myself a die hard ah I had gotten to the point a couple of months back that I really was ready to give 03:45:33:00 up and ah you know it's just through the grace of God and beautiful people that stepped in and intervened in my life they saw something in me that I didn't see in myself and ah I still trying to figure that out, but other than that it's a day by day process. You know the place where I'm living now is, the management is great its some of the employees that work here...(train heard in background) they can be very annoying and frustrating at times like this morning I came in late last night I worked 14 hours yesterday and I come in late last night so I thought I left me key in my door I come in take a bath start reading a book and fell asleep books still on the bed that I was reading and ah i went downstairs to talk to the lady I said well I think I misplaced my 03:46:33:00 key I said I might of left it in my locker did anybody turn the key in or anything like that? She said, well no you have got to pay $5 to get another key we don't have an extra key. I'm like how come you don't have two keys, you know this is a hotel. You know you should have 2 keys I don't think it's fair for me to give you $5 cause you only have one key but going back to thinking, calming down thinking well retracing my steps of what I did last night prior up to me going to sleep I took a bath I watched a little tv and I read a book so that's where the key was you know, but ah so I'm calm a little bit about that, but the lady herself she has a problem always taught to respect older people you know and. (end) 03:47:22:00 INTERVIEWER: If this SRO weren't here right now at this point of your life, or the SRO weren't around. KEVIN: I'd probably still be in the streets, still in the shelter if SRO's or programs like what I'm in , which is Threshold, ah dealing ah with people like myself because it is very depressing out there on the streets when you have to sleep in an alley or have to sleep in a gangway, you lay down in these places or the park you lay down in these places you don't know if you're going to wake up someone could come through and slit your throat get hit by a car....I mean a lot of things could happen to you out there on the streets and I think it's great that programs like this exist 03:48:22:17 because it gives a person like myself that want to make a geographical change in his life or her life that they are given an opportunity to do so. Ah people have a stigma about homeless people they figure everybody they see homeless is a : drug addict , or alcoholic, or just don't want anything, don't want help they figure that it's help out there, but people are not utilizing the resources that are out there. But that's true in certain incident because ah....(time code break). nation, very it's hitting everybody. It's hitting everyone's doorstep and 03:49:22:20 by this being election year I've been watching the Republican Convention I haven't heard them once say, speak on anything all they are talking about is cutting the taxes by %15 for the working people, middle class, the rich, but not one speaker not one senator, one mayor, no one has said anything about the homeless population the problem that we have in this country as far as dealing with their situation. Ah, by me being on both sides of the fence i can say cause I didn't wake up one day just was homeless I used to be in the working class and stuff, but by me being on both sides of the fence now that my long term goal is 03:50:22:00 to once I get situated is to try to get with some type of group that even if we take one person off the streets, like year or what have you that's my long term goal and to show them that someone out there really cares. You know I think thats important ah...I don't think that.....(time code breaks). Ah, just like I mentioned before with the voter registration yeah people out here that are registered voters but they feel that what they goin' to go vote for for somebody that snatch the rug from up under them once they get in office don't so they figure their vote counts we don't vote, you know ah, down the line 03:51:22:00 I hope someone address this this issue that and make them aware that their vote counts. That they need to be heard . They need to make more appearance to the newspapers, to the magazines, to the people in general so that the people in Washington will have no other choice but to deal with this problem instead of keep sweeping and sweeping and sweeping and sweeping it farther and farther under the rug. Ah, they have to address this. Resources open as many doors as they can. because if not they're goin' to be in worser shape than they was INTERVIEWER: Are you going to vote in the 96' election. KEVIN: Ah, I don't have a right to vote because ah once 03:52:22:00 your incarcerated and go to the penitentiary ah the right is taken away from you, but as a citizen as a American citizen that I'm goin' to try to make sure that most many people as I can get together and help them vote so the vote can be heard. I'm goin' to try to do that. INTERVIEWER: How are you going to do that? KEVIN: Well, right now I've being working on ah, on I've been talking to a few guys at Pacific Garden Mission. I've been trying to find out where they're going to go vote down in the downtown area even if I have to work at the polling places pass out literature, explain, display to them how to work the polling machines and stuff like that. Ah, give them the insight on who I think rather they vote democratic or Republican really doesn't make me any difference but 03:53:22:00 who I think the best candidate is and but I think they should do in the future for the homeless people ah, so I'm umm digging up as much information as I can in these short months. (End) 03:53:38:00 KEVIN ( in SRO halls entering his apartment--no talking, music playing in background from another room?) KEVIN ( standing in apartment interview -when he starts talking) And this is my little nest haven right here this is my room, this is my television, here dresser, bed you know I like it's pretty nice it's just got a bunch of roaches but other than that I like it it's better than sleeping in alleys and stuff like that. I have my private bathroom, which a lot of rooms don't have. Ah, that is about it basically, ah 03:54:38:00 SRO and the different programs. this room was made possible for me so I could get off the streets. (time code break) KEVIN (still in room): Other than that basically this is it. INTERVIEWER: How much do you pay a month. KEVIN: $440 a month ah, which is a little steep for this place, ah but it's better than nothing ah, me personally I only pay $60 a week on my rent and Threshold pays the rest. They pay the other 50. Ah, which is a great help you know, without them I wouldn't be able to do it. INTERVIEWER: Ah, briefly tell me some of the things you do to make, make the money to survive. KEVIN: Ah, basically what I do is Friday, Saturday, Sunday I wash car windows, clean cars, scrub 03:55:38:00 car tires stuff like that. Ah, during the week when I don't have to go to meetings and stuff like that I have appointments I go to work at a day labor agency, ah which is all work this is what you call a work ticket and it is a 7 day work ticket which goes day by day. And ah, they pay $4.25 an hour and it pretty much helps you know go along with the income. I do get when I put it together I'm able to have a little balance living in my life umm you know without places like Day Labor, places like SRO's, ah subsidized housing without places like that, places like this wouldn't be available. 03:56:35:00 KEVIN (bathroom talking): This is the bathroom here, which consists of a tub, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, but ah it's alright. It's private I don't have to share with anyone. INTERVIEWER: What are you going to say about your experience living here when you're out of here? KEVIN: My experience living here right now it's alright ah a lot of activity goes on in this building, but you know me being the person that I am I am a loner. So I don't mix with crowds. I hate crowds so I don't have no problems. You know ah I'm basically in and out of here. I come in sleep and watch TV eat and whatever I have to do and basically other than that I'm usually not you know, I'm not a problem for the people around here and they're not a problem for me. You know the management here is great so, and that makes a whole lot of a difference 03:57:35:00 and other than that it's not bad. Some more roaches. Roaches bad in here. 03:57:48:00 KEVIN going downstairs and leaving building, jump cuts of talking, audio not too good. 004 04:00:40:00 City worker walks on lower Wacker 04:01:40:00 (City workers cleaning Lower Wacker Drive with high powered hoses) 04:02:40:00 " " 04:03:40:00 " " 04:04:40:00 " Šend" 04:04:50:00 (preparation of TREEMAN outside van) 04:05:50:00 " " 04:06:33:00 TREEMAN: (walking down street with crew) How's the arms look? MAN WITH CAM: Good. DONOHUE: Watch behind you; there's a cab coming up. GIRL: This guy in this cab is like, 'what's up with the dude?' TREEMAN: Something's getting me in my side here. Is there a branch going into my side? MAN W/ CAM: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll move it. Right here? TREEMAN: Yeah. We got the fires. 04:07:39:00 COP 1: You can't go no further than this DONOHUE: No? COP 1: Yeah. This as far as you can go. You can talk to everybody when they come out, but this as far as you can go, okay? Do whatever you can do to cooperate DONOHUE: .That was the word I was given RODGREGEZ: .This officer here said we could stand here. COP 1: Stay at this corner. Stay at this corner. That's all I ask you to do, okay? And we'll have no problem. Stay at the corner. COP 1: The police, the police are nervous as it is they don't need no problems, today. DONOHUE: We, we just, we just wanted to try to get close to the mayor, to get him to notice. COP 1: Okay, but see. 04:08:33:00 DONOHUE: We don't want, we don't want to mess with. We want to be able to take advantage of the mayor's speech. COP 1: I understand that. Like I explained to some of your colleges, on they're way out they can speak to anyone they want to speak to. DONOHUE: I want to speak to the mayor. COP 1: He'll come right past here. He'll come right this way. There's only one way out. There's only one way out. DONOHUE: Really? COP1: There's only. Yeah, he's gonna come out right this way. There's only one way out. DONOHUE: He not gonna go down the alley or something? COP 1: Everybody's got to come out this way. COP 2: You can't go down here. DONOHUE: You're stopping the tree from walking. COP 2: Trees don't care. COP 3: We'll be glad to help you, but only the press can get through DONOHUE: We won't disrupt the press conference. COP 3: We understand that, but that's the orders that was given to us and 04:09:19:00 we have to abide by them. (COPS and TREE GANG standing around) 04:10:19:00 (Static shots of people standing around. Bad audio.) 04:11:19:00 " " 04:11:36:00 TREEMAN: Right there, across the street, that's his bodyguard. GIRL: Wow. You can see four. Pretty impressive. 04:12:00:00 OFF SCREEN VOICE: ...and the housing's gonna' be air conditioned. This is a pretty important occasion represents the mayor indicate. 04:12:15:00 OFF SCREEN VOICE: I'd like to mention the organization.The Berger Association has HUD House and Interprise Development are gonna be in construction soon with 45 scattered seculants and the Near West Development Co. along with MCL and ASP Co. are going to be building 35 scattered. OFF SCREEN VOICE: What is, we believe the nation's most innovative and promising job training and skill program. 04:13:12:00 (Donohue and blond boy mumbling) 04:14:12:00 " " DONOHUE: (To treeman) If we do it right out here, we're not disrupting what their doing. And there's no access out that way; there's several cars there so. 04:14:40:00 MAN SPEAKING: (man on podium at Henry Horner Homes)...housing and just as importantly to help pay for the infastructure because the whole concept here is to restore the street grid and make this super block a part of the, uh, neighbourhood. I'd also like to thank Ernist Gate and the rest of the West Haven community, uh, this is a community who, while we, uh, had some differences that have to be ironed out, uh, they have always been responsive and willing to work with us in terms of accomplishing something that we hope to be improvements to the entire neighbourhood and we're very appreciative of it, uh, the program that, I'd also like to thank Ron Patterson, you've heard a lot about the program that will help our residence get jobs. Mr. Patterson had a lot to do with it, uh, I oh to would like to thank, BPI as the plantiff of the control case and Habitat as the reciever for their assistance in this and of course, lastly, uh, but certainly not least and perhaps most important, I'd like to thank 04:15:40:00 Mrs. Vaughn and the residence here who have undergone the conditions of Horner, who have began this struggle and who are begining to see it today. Lastly I just want to make two points, one, of course, this is about good housing but as Mr. Gates says, as the mayor said, uh, this is more than housing, this is really about a neighbourhood and for us, I guess it means two things: that we were here a year ago when the demolishings occur and that we're here today with the beginings of, uh, housing coming back, that this is evidence of the credibility that CHA and HUD hope to have in the community as we do similar things in other existing public housing communities. And lastly, although, even today, even with this start, it still seems almost oximoronic to say it, but, I would like to believe we're working to a time 04:16:40:00 in which to concepts of CHA and good neighbour can actually be said in the same sentence. Uh, this is the down-payment, uh, on that effort. Lastly, it's really my pleasure to introduce someone who not only has profoundly inpacted on, on, on the way that I look at public housing, when I came to HUD I'd already run the New York City Housing Authoritys and Los Angelos Housing Authority, uh, you know, I thought I knew some things, uh, but, uh, Sec. Cisneros is, uh, someone who really doesn't let you remain in the box you're in no matter how big that box is he is someone who is always pushing his staff at the edge of the envelope about thinking how we can do this better for the benefits of the people that we're here to serve, uh, now that I've been away, if I may, for almost a year, I get to see it from a different perspective 04:17:40:00 and I even more appreciate the efforts of the secretary has made in this time in age when it's not fashionable to be on the side of low-income people, when it's not fashionable to talk about the fact that we need more money and we need to integrate people more into the larger society, the larger society more with low-income and minority people, uh, the secretary has continued to make that pitch across the country and to do it in a very articulate and persuasive matter. Without further ado, let me introduce to you, Sec. of HUD, Henry Cisneros. (crowd claps) SEC. CIS: Thanks Joe. Joe, thank you very much. Mayor Daley, senator, alderman, Mr. Leven, Mrs. Bone, Mr. Gates, Joe, Edwin, friends of Chicago one and all, let me tell you that, on my job, I move around America's cities. I've been to all fifty states 04:18:40:00 as secretary of Housing and to 150 cities. And I have to tell you, very honestly, having fashions myself as a sort of a student of cities, that Chicago is America's most real city. America's most vibrant city. And I say that having been to all these places all across America. This is a powerhouse of a city. (crowd claps). I also had this conversation with the president and with the first lady not too long ago, we were talking privately about some of the problems confronting America's cities and we talked about just what a powerhouse Chicago is. That strong business that influences the whole United States. That vibrant sky-line and waterfront and and and architecture is renown world-wide. You have schools that are in transformation, neighbourhoods that are real, parishes in in in all parts of Chicago, 04:19:40:00 and a mayor who is trying to put all of this together and keep up with the change that cities have to confront. Cities cannot stand still. A formula for standing still is a formula for falling behind. Cities have only two choices, they can either go forward or they can fall backward and I've got to tell you, I have come to admire this mayor as one who knows only one direction and that is keep moving Chicago forward. Mayor Daley, congradulation to you and your leadership. (Crowd applauds) I see in Mayor Daley and so many other Chicagoans a kind of a passion for this city. If you haven't read the Washington Post Outlook section of Sunday, of which had two or three articles on the city of Chicago. I'm not a resident of this city. I come from another part of the county, but I was almost moved to tears by reading the love that people have for this city and their desire and passion to do the right this for this city. What we are witnessing today 04:20:40:00 is a continuation of that committment and that committment to change. When we were here a year ago, as several have said, people openly questioned whether or not bringing down the highrises was the right thing to do. Luckily we had neighbourhood leaders like Mrs. Bomme who said, 'we cannot leave things the way they are.' Leaving these highrises the way they were in Henry Horner, in Cabrini, on the State Street corner is not a strategy for bringing a city together. Here, on this site at Henry Horner, a book was written several years ago called There Are No Children Here. It wasn't describing the lack of people of chronological age of children, not at all. It was simply saying there are no children because of the loss of innocence, the loss of lives, the loss of childhood, the loss of joy that happens in these places we have called public housing in our country. Here we have a mayor who is willing to call the federal government to a partnership and call it 04:21:40:00 to a count to change public housing. We started in Henry Horner, we're working in Cabrini, we're working in Robert Taylor, we're working in Abler, we're working in Dearborn, we're working in the rest of these places because this is not just a one stop effort, this is, what you see today, the beginning of a philisophical transformation. The highrises were built forty, fifty years ago, they've outlived their usefullness, times have changed, it's time to move on and the right thing to do is to create housing that is dignified and decent and safe and clean and works for the people who are starting to get a start on their life in public housing. (crowd applauds) This is not a final destination for people, this is a platform from which people can launch to a self-sufficient life. We believe that and we're working with this mayor and with the city council and with the leaders of Chicago to make that so. Today is more than just the demonstration of what new housing 04:22:40:00 will look like that replaces that. This is much better. But its more than that. This is an announcement of how people will have improved schools, how there is a Michael Jordan Civic Center nearby and how the city has invested in a library nearby and how policing is improved and how people are going to have jobs. Already some of the residents that work in this development and work on other construction jobs, are people that have been put together in a part of an apprenticeship with the unions so that they will not only get training and get jobs and get a GED, but the dignity of knowing they are working and amassing an income and able to move on with their lives. Finally, what you see here today is more than just a hand-full of houses in a great American city. What you see here is living testimony that we can do this all over America. 04:23:40:00 This is an urban committment to re---- bring back America's cities. I think we're on the egde of an historic time in our country in many ways. As we near the end of the 20th century, as we welcome in a new century as we think about the transformation of the American economy. But I'm here to tell you I believe we're on the edge of an historic time for America's citites. No institution in America was hurt worst by the economic transformation and loss and manufacturing losses of the last years. The cities like Chicago had 30% of their jobs in manufacturing. It could help it when those jobs began to go off shore and to the south and to the suburbs and to disappear completely. The cities were hurt badly; not only did they lose their jobs, but they were left with the residue of the crime that would stay behind. Now, as the economy has sort itself out, 22 straight months of under 6% unemployment, 10 1/2_ million new jobs on President Clinton's 04:24:40:00 watch and 68% of thoughs good-paying jobs we're starting to see the effects of that strong economy and good interest rates and economic management come home to America's cities. Things are possible when the economy is strong. Things are possible from the lessons we have learned. And things are possible when people commit to the cities. It's not just Chicago, but I've seen this in Youngstown and I've seen it in Newark and I've seen it in Cleaveland and I've seen it in Baltimore. If we work together, neighbourhood leader and city leaders, non-profits and profit-making companies. If we work together, we can bring America's cities back, we can bring our neighbourhood back, we can bring our families back and we, in the process, will save our country. This is a very powerful testiment of what can be done and I'd like to congradulate and thank everybody in Chicago who's working to build this Chicago dream but this American dream as well. Thank you very much for allowing me 04:25:40:00 to be here today. (crowd applauds). A CITY REP: I've been given the impossible task of opening this thing up for questions and answers and asking the press to keep the questions locally related. (a question was asked off mic) SEC CIS: Well I think Jack kept some good things on his watch as Secretary. I had the assignment following it. Among the good things he did was end the period of corruption that characterized the Reagan and Pierce years of when HUD was characterized by scandle and outright corruption and Jack took some steps to put some distance between that HUD and the new HUD but there were many other things that he did a good deal more to talk about than to actually do. 04:26:40:00 One of those things he talked about endlessly was to sell public housing himself to residence. Found out after the fact that after talking about it endlessly and making hundreds of speeches, there was one development in the whole United States that was sold to a residence management corporation. And only three that moved to be sold to the residence themselves out of thousands, you have to know the scale we're talking about here, we're talking about 3400 housing authourities and 1.4 million families who live in public housing. It was a strategy that wasn't viable. What we encounted when we came to the office was housing authourity after housing authourity that had been allowed to slip into district hair over the years under Kemp and Pierce before them while they talked about grand schemes. What we did was, we entered a partnership with the mayor of Chicago to turn around the Chicago Housing Authourity and what you see here and the strategy of bringing down the highrises 04:27:40:00 and of taking over the managment and turning around the finances and privatizing section 8 and privatizing management and development is something that had happened on this watch so they can talk a whole lot but I think what you see here is the result of what we tried to do on President Clinton's watch. DALEY: I would like to comment on that. The difference is a lot of people talk and make conversation about this community. And when Henry Cisneros was appointed Sec. of HUD he got away from speaches and a lot of conversation and has made decisions in partnership with the community in cities all across America. And the difference is, instead of having conversation/speaches what you need is decision-makers and that is what the diffence HUD has become. HUD has become a decision- maker. He has moved that process along and I think that is the difference. Instead of talking about a young boy in Henry Horner. 04:28:40:00 And I know, uh, Alderman Barnett or Ernist Gates, Congressman Davis or Senator Hendon, you can come out here and do something about it. I think that's what we have to tell people. You can come out here and work with people and show what people are doing right here in their own backyard, in the churches in the schools in the communities and the difference is this will be built on President Clinton and Henry Cisneros' watch. 04:29:09:00 DALEY: .Not about the unions . PRESS QUESTION: Last week, the Republians largely by the media, I must say about how tightly they managed their convention do you agree that you shouldn't have to make appologies for the convention?(Inaudible) CISNEROS: Well I think you're gonna see an efficiently run convention but also one that's very real and I think the first question here today focused on how the message is going to go to the neighborhoods and I can tell you from conversations from just the last 24 hours with the White House that they expect tabinet officers should be here, in Chicago, in the community meeting with people, meeting with delegate caucauses, meeting with others who are here at the convention but are not delegates to talk about the critical issues. Look, this is a big country 04:30:10:00 and there is no realistic way to take all of the differences and passions and real problems of the country and hide those under some sort of glass cage. It's not gonna happen. The challenges before the American people are too real, the times are too difficult. So I think, what you always get from Democrats, is a much more real airing of questions and I suspect that you'll see that here in Chicago next week. But I think it's gonna be positive, I think it's gonna be constructive because we're all working in the spirit on trying to solve things and get things done, grow the economy and harvest it and try to make it work for people and creating real opportunity for everyone. 04:31:07:00 SEC. CISNEROS: Absolutely not. Rev.Jackson has not been locked out of the convention, the party or anything else. I have great personal respect for rev. Jackson and his positions, and I think he will be immensely important in the fall and I believe that he will play a role in the conventions. I can't speak to that, I'm not in the internal workings, but developing all of the line-up of speakers has not yet occurred and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Rev. Jackson plays a part. I think it's too early to decide that anybody's been ruled out. DALEY MAN: Okay, after, after the benediction we will have a tour of the building with the secretary and the mayor. 04:31:57:00 MINISTER: Now may the grace of our Lord and savior Jesus the Christ, the love of God, the father, the fellowship and sweet communion of the Holy Spirit rest, rule and abide with us all now, hense forth and forever more, let the people of God say Amen. 04:32:19:00 DALEY: (greets people as he goes into the new homes. audio is bad) 04:33:19:00 " " 04:34:10:00 QUESTION: (in new homes)How much will the rent be here? WOMAN IN DRESS: The CHA residents will pay no more than 30% of their income for rent in many cases it would be a very nominal amount. What we're commenting on is the construction cost because they are extremely reasonable for buildings that are soundly built and this attractive at 87 thousand a unit. QUESTION: How many of these will be for CHA residents? WOMAN IN DRESS: All of these homes, as I understand, are intended for CHA residents but it will be across a range of incomes so it will be households earning anywhere from 0 to 80% of the area median. So it will be an opportunity for welfare families to live with people who work and to have role models. So... 04:35:10:00 (crowd exits building. audio bad) 04:35:30:00 BILLY: (Tree planting) Mayor Daley and his crew trying to gentrify this neighborhood is wrong. TREEMAN: That's right! BILLY: ... (indecipherable) And all of this is part of a general assault on homeless and us poor people is being waged by this country. And it's wrong. You know when police get careless on us homeless and poor people. You know that gives you an idea of the level of assault, the general assault in this society against us period. They just threw people off public aid. But uh, they're putting, putting people on the street. There are gonna be many, many, many more homeless people. 04:36:30:00 Unless action like we're doing now, today, can stop it. TREEMAN: That's right. BILLY: So let's fight it. Let's give em the fire. Let's show em we're real. Let's go to the end with this. That's all I have to say. Thank you. (Applause) (Indecipherable) that he and she loves you. I would like to let you know that I do. I love you, I love you, and I love you, Thank you. JOHN DONOHUE: OK Billy, OK Billy. BILLY: Hey. JOHN: I'm gonna stand here on the side for a minute. Course you all you all know Tree man who's putting his leaves in my face. But that's OK Tree man. You deserve to be here. (Laughter) Right? (Crowd) deserves to be here in the South Loop. (Crowd) In the mayor's 04:37:30:00 neighborhoods. (Crowd) And we call Juan Rodriguez the mayor of the South Loop. He lived 34 years in that little building just along side that big one, and he was pushed out and died recently. 34 years there. Somebody bought the building raised the rents $100 in a week, and 11 Latino families had to move out in 1 week and now they're making lofts for the rich. Next door the city gave $2 million to keep ___(?) to do $100,000 condominiums there, and didn't set aside any for poor people. Down the street they're building town homes and they're gonna have 7 bathrooms in them. (Boos) And Mayor Daley lives in Central Station to the tune of a $250,000 home. (Boos) And (?) is trying to (?) single occupancy hotels in this area. And 04:38:30:00 (?) has not committed to building housing for homeless families. And we have had children in the community homeless and living in public housing in Hilliard homes draw the homes that they want to live in. Draw their neighborhood. Isn't this art beautiful? (Crowd agrees) They have up scaled the South Loop neighborhood but they haven't even fixed the drinking fountain in Hilliard homes, part of the South Loop, Mayor Daley. (Crowd boos) This is your neighborhood. (Boos) So, at this time, we would like to reiterate our demands in the South Loop. We want the 1,026 single room occupancy dwellings in the South Loop preserved, rehabbed, or replaced. (Crowed cheers) Now the city has agreed 04:39:30:00 to build 370 units, but that doesn't add up to 1,026. (Crowd) If they start knocking them down they're gonna subtract and not add. (Crowd) And we should add to the housing not subtract. Because homelessness is because there ain't enough affordable, affordable housing. 04:39:55:00 CROWD: (Protesting, chanting) Open the door Richard! WOMAN IN PINK: Richard! CROWD: Open the door Richard! Open the door, Richard! Richard, why don't you open that door? Open the door, Richard. Open the door, Richard. Open the door, Richard. Richard, why don't you open that door? VOICE IN CROWD: (indecipherable) WOMAN IN PINK: (in reaction) Yeah! SPEAKER:(indecipherable) last Thursday, some of them. And we almost started last night. We have children from Hilliard homes and (?) homes from around the city. Are there any children here right now that participated in the drawing last Thursday? Any moms with children here? (Indecipherable) We had a drawing last Thursday 04:40:55:00 down at the Chicago Temple. JOHN: And the momma (?) was worth a dinner. C'mon up here mommas. SPEAKER: C'mon up kids. JOHN: C'mon up kids. (Applause) (Indecipherable) 04:41:17:00 SPEAKER: (still tree planting) we need housing. We need housing. This is about tomorrow. (Applause) (Indecipherable) But they can do an excellent job expressing themselves through the arts. VOICE: That's right. SPEAKER: (indecipherable) But at six years old they know they want a clean building to live in. (applause) what do we want? Housing. When do we want it? Now. Housing for the needy not the greedy. 04:42:55:00 JOHN: Oh wait a minute, there's a limo, is it Mayor Daley. (crowd) Oh maybe it's not. OK.(laughter) After the tree planting, with the tree, we got the tree. We got the tree. A silk lilac tree. FEMALE VOICE: Yeah. MALE VOICE: Yea. We need the boys, we need the boys here. Come here. Come here. JOHN: (indecipherable) TREEMAN: My fellow tree! CROWD: 000! JOHN: All right (indecipherable) TREE MAN: We went out in the forest and got the next best tree to me. This is the new tree. MALE VOICE: Yes! (applause) VOICE: Beautiful. (Tree is being planted.) (applause) TREEMAN: We are here Mayor Daley, we have planted our roots. 04:41:17:00 SPEAKER: (still tree planting) We need housing. We need housing. This is about tomorrow. (applause) (indecipherable) But they can do an excellent job expressing themselves through the arts. VOICE: That's right. SPEAKER: (indecipherable) But at six years old they know they want a clean building to live in. (applause) What do we want? Housing. When do we want it? Now. Housing for the needy not the greedy. 04:42:55:00 JOHN: Oh wait a minute, there's a limo, is it Mayor Daley. (crowd) Oh maybe it's not. OK.(laughter) After the tree planting, with the tree, we got the tree. We got the tree. A silk lilac tree. FEMALE VOICE: Yeah. MALE VOICE: Yea. We need the boys, we need the boys here. Come here. Come here. JOHN: (indecipherable) TREEMAN: My fellow tree! CROWD: 000! JOHN: All right (indecipherable) TREE MAN: We went out in the forest and got the next best tree to me. This is the new tree. MALE VOICE: Yes! (applause) VOICE: Beautiful. (Tree is being planted.) (applause) TREEMAN: We are here Mayor Daley, we have planted our roots. (crowd joins in) We are here Mayor Daley, we have planted our roots. We are here 04:43:55:00 Mayor Daley, we have planted our roots. (clapping.) MALE VOICE: Help the kids put the flowers in the dirt. C'mon there we go. JOHN: I would ask everybody to step back a bit. join hands, and while the kids are planting the flowers, we're gonna sing "We Shall Overcome." (applause) Alright? Everybody join hands. Everybody join hands. MALE VOICE: Photographer, reporter, it doesn't matter, policemen, anybody's hand. JOHN: Everybody join hands, join hands with everybody. Join hands with everybody. Wait. 04:44:55:00 (crowd cheers) JOHN: And now we're gonna join hands and sing We Shall Overcome. (singing) We shall overcome, (with crowd) we shall overcome. We shall over come someday. 0h, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday. We shall live together we shall live together, we shall live together s 04:45:55:00 Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall live together today. We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace someday. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall live in peace someday. We shall live in the South Loop,(laughter) we shall live in the south Loop, 04:46:55:00 we shall live in the South Loop someday. Oh, deep in my heart, Mayor Daley we do believe we shall live in the loop. (crowd cheers throughout) What do you want? When do you want it? CROWD: Now! JOHN: Let's have a big hand for Treeman. (applause) Let's have a big hand for the work crew. Let's have a big hand for these children. And it didn't cost $12.3 million. It didn't cost anything, donated. 04:47:55:00 Now Mayor Daley, we'll get it donated for you if you build us housing. (applause) In your neighborhood. 04:48:04:00 (Crowd sounds, indecipherable talking) 04:48:13:00 (Parade of demonstrators leaving tree planting.) MAN: Can I pass? Thank you. TWO MEN: (singing) We shall overcome, we shall overcome. ANOTHER MAN: I left you something. Here you go. WOMAN: Thanks. MAN 3: I thought they (?) MAN IN CRUSH SHIRT: What are you going to do about the picnic? I'll talk you out there, okay? Oh my, God, what ya (?) 04:49:12:00 (Police waiting and standing around) 04:49:33:00 KEYMAN: (In front of St. James hotel holding up keys) Long time. I waited for a long time. I mean I waited for three or four years straight. You know what it's like when you're cramped in somebody's hallway. Maybe they've got a little carpeting on the stairs. They've got a radiator. It's warm on the stairs. But now I've got door keys. I've got door keys. But I know what it's like for my partner. It ain't that nice. When you ain't got nowhere to go. Suffering. And you're freezing cold. You're hungry. You're clothes don't fit ya. You got nowhere to go, nobody cares. Understand? Then God gives you door keys. Understand? It means a lot, pal. If you've ever been out there. You know what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, man. It's rough. But I've got door keys, now. 04:50:33:00 You see 'em. That's something to me. I'm somebody, now. I got fucking door keys. Nobody can keep me out. My rent is fucking paid, too. Understand? And its gonna get better, you watch and see. Stick around and you'll see me. That's all I've got to say. (walks away to different part of sidewalk) 04:51:08:00 KEYMAN: I worked at Burger King. I got kids off the street. Understand what I'm saying? And I prayed a lot. And finally, finally I found a guy who believed in me. I went back. I sold Streetwise. I went back. I got my driver's license. See things are, things are looking up. I've got my driver's license. FRIEND OF KEYMAN: What got you out of , what got you out of the, out of the hell? KEYMAN: I got tired of being down. For so long. I got tired people kickin me around. And I prayed hard. I emptied people's garbage. 04:52:08:00 I, I did everything that it took. You know. And I stopped drinking. I prayed. I went to church. I got my driver's license. Next month I'm going to school to get my CDL. I drive an 18 wheeler, 18 bucks an hour. (el noise) I've got my driver's license. I'm gonna get my CDL. Then I'll be somebody. Then I'll come back down here. I'll get four or five guys and take them over there and I'll get something to eat. And I'll let them know it's the way out. It's the way out. It is the way out, it is the way out. You can make it out. Uh-huh. My brother died in '91. I thought, I said God why do you do this to me? I start drinking heavy. You know liquor, the drugs, the whole shot. It took me three years, up until November '95, when I finally woke up. 04:53:08:00 And I haven't slept in an alley since then. I haven't slept in an alley since then. Finally for a whole year straight I had a roof over my head for a long time. Finally for a whole year, you know, you know. FRIEND: Uh-huh. KEYMAN: And that's a miracle for me. By God I pray to my God to help me. Please. You know what I mean. And now I'm OK. You know. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. FRIEND: What, what do, what do people got to know about the South Loop? That, that the city's doing? KEYMAN: The people need to know that the South Loop has been politically enterprised that the Mayor and a lot of the aldermen. But the South Loop should be for everybody. Not just Maxwell Street. 04:54:08:00 But the whole South Loop. We need a place where we know where we can afford, but not just for the poor people, but for everybody. I mean all of one (?). You know. And I think the South Loop should be based on your income. If you're making 10,000 a month maybe you should pay 7,000. If you're only making $30, $30 a month maybe you should pay $15. But it should be based upon your income so we can all live good. You know? If you make $300 a month maybe you should pay $100. FRIEND: What's going to happen if people can't live in South Loop, near the city? KEYMAN: It's going to be ruined. And it's going to be ruined because itıs only going to push the people 04:55:08:00 back to the ghetto. And it's going to push the people to the suburbs. What's happening in the suburbs? Drugs. Crime. Everything that they've tried to do it, it, it hasn't worked. So we need to all live together. And maybe we can come up with some kind, some kind of solution. This is what we need right now, you know? We don't need to be separated. From what I understand the Mayor wants this to be a part of the Upper Middle Class or just for the rich. OK? But it hasn't worked. He needs to bring the people together. So we can be one core. Because he hasn't been a solution to the problem 04:56:08:00 but he's been a solution to his own politics. And his politics don't work. FRIEND: What, what are his politics to you? KEYMAN: His politics, to me, is getting what he wants and what he wants is for his people to come in, and when I say his people, I means his vote, his Meigs Field, his stone wall in the Stadium. He wants to beautify this because who lives in the South of the Loop? Mayor Daley. Right? He lives right there. You know what I'm saying? But the poor people has been here for so many years--the South Loop belongs to the people. As a vote. But he wants to push us out. 04:57:08:00 Why? Because he wants to beautify his neighborhood or plant a tree and flowers. Well, why can't we all be a part of the flowers? Why can't we all smell the roses? We want to smell the roses in the South Loop. FRIEND: How are you going to use your vote in this next election? KEYMAN: I'm going to- FRIEND: Are you going to vote? KEYMAN: I'm going to vote for the wisest candidate. FRIEND: What do you have to say to homeless people about voting? KEYMAN: I think homeless people should get out and register. Every able body that can walk, and that's of age, especially the homeless people. Whether it's Hispanic, White, Black whatever you are. But especially the homeless people should get out and let their voices, their voices be heard at the polls. 04:58:08:00 FRIEND: And what's that voice saying? KEYMAN: That voice is saying that we want our share. Because all homeless people hasn't been just homeless. We you got homeless people, you're looking at a man .... END 005 05:00:30:00 KEYMAN: ..I think people of different groups, like the homeless coalition, different groups like Bush, different groups like a women for women, just every group has been coming together for one unified core to come out in this Democratic Convention to let the president, especially the president, let them know where we stand with this thing. You know, you know, you know, you know, we donıt need for someone to going our lives. We need to going our all lives, but it takes dollars(?) to do that. It takes dollars(?) to do that. It is taking dollars(?) away from us like welfare, Jesus Christ. 05:01:33:00 KEYMAN: ..You know what they do? You know what they do, you know? Q: If you had a minute at the convention to talk what will you say up there. If you were to come before Clinton just before Clinton and they say you know, "It's your turn to talk", what will you tell the delegates they need to know its that's most important? 05:01:50:00 KEYMAN: I will tell them, to think of your children. Q: ..At the convention when you're coming up before Clinton on Thursday, what will you say? KEYMAN: I will tell them Republicans and Democrats, we're not republicans and we are not democrats, we are people. Don't think of eh.. when you think about welfare, don't think about those people, because when you hurt those people you hurt your daughters. Think about your daughters, your sons, think about their social security, because what affects me affects them. You're hurting them. Think about your family. Think about your children, think about your wife, think about 05:03:10:00 your own family. Because what affects me affects them. You're cutting your own family at their knees. When you hurt me, you're hurting your family and you're hurting America. Don't hurt America. That's what I would to tell him. 05:03:31:00 ANGRY WOMAN: And yaıll took our country from us. And this is what yaıll produce.... Shit! Shit! You all produce shit! 05:03:40:00 ANGRY WOMAN: And now we are trying to stand on our feet, ok? Let me tell you what to do-Get the political power ok? Clinton is going to win its clear. He ain't nothing but a pig. He had fucked women. He had done all kinds of things, he did, I know he did, because a woman came up to me when I ...inaudible.. I put Philomel on the ballot. Do you know that there was a black woman on the ballot 1988 and 1992 do you know that? I put her on the ballot. And I raised how much money. You allow me..you don't know the fuck what you're doing? You don't know who you're up against? You ..inaudible.. you think they will, they will shoot you. Just because you got white skin privelge I'm telling you deal with the realty. You know who is going to lead this world? 05:04:32:00 ANGRY WOMAN: Black women, Black women is going to lead this world, because the rest of you all don't know the fuck what you're doing? Thatıs it. It's true. And I'm telling the truth. What you sit here talking demostration. They don't give a shit. Nobody even saw you, you only have a couple of cameras, they don't give a shit about demonstrating here? Demonstrate where they fucking have the convention. And get somebody like her, like her, that pretty child right there to have some scence and get in and say, Look you want to have a convention, you wanna have it but you gonna have it on our terms. Don't let them have a convention on their terms? Shit! Have it on your terms. Have it on your terms. You wanna fight, I will teach you to fight. I have been fighting since I was a kid. I will teach you how to fight. Shit 05:05:31:00 ANGRY WOMAN: Are you going to be out on the street? Fuck, I told you...INAUDIBLE.. 05:05:36:00 INAUDIBLE.. END. 05:06:40:00 Festival of the Opressed/Police waiting/MOS 05:07:00:00 Festival comes in the direction of the Police/MOS. 05:07:48:00 Puppet parade/Festival of the Oppressed/MOS. 05:08:51:00 Puppet parade/Festival of the Oppressed/MOS. 05:09:21:00 Police standing, then turning to walk/MOS 05:09:40:00 Puppet parade/Festival of the Oppressed/MOS. 05:11:36:00 LADY IN BLUE (at table): He was interviewed. I don't know whether they used it or not, but they did pick up the mike. 05:11:41:00 GUY IN BLUE (at table): Right, what I'm saying is like Channel 2 and all he other channels' cameramen they sort of like uh walked away from it yesterday but they glimpsed like at the Treeman but they didn't really take note of it until today. ED (at table): I think the reason is we were in his face today. I mean we were blocking his exit. We were there right up front. And we chose not to really do it yesterday because of the nature of the event. It could have backfired on us. In terms of work what was going on it just didn't seem right to us to go up in his face there. And then they exited in different directions yesterday so we couldn't catch up. Today it was a little different. I think the newsworthiness is not that we're there, but how close we are to him and whether or not we can get somehow to talk to him. Because if we're out of the picture, they don't pick up on the just conversation with Treeman, they pick up on the conversation Treeman is trying to get at the mayor. JOHN DONOHUE (at table): Exactly, you gotta be in his face, you gotta be there in his face. GUY IN BLUE: You know, another good thing about it is that, we beat Mayor 05:12:46:00 Daley there this time. So we saw his entrance and were there for his exit. ED: Yeah, right by there. MARK: Yesterday, another key part was that we got tickets, invitations to the Cisneros and to the Daley boat. We went right up and shook their hands right as we got in and on the boat. So I mean that we're definitely making our presence felt. Well, um, it seems to me that the message, the question as we go forward, do we keep the same message? And I think we need to think about what that message is and how that ties into Saturday too.uh.. Well... ED: One of the things the Mayor said today, Mark, is he said when we got there and he saw us there and we started talking to him, he says "Keep planting those trees. I like to see trees planted." So we're taking that theme and we're building for Saturday. We're in fact going to do that right 05:13:41:00 in this neighborhood like he told us to do. You know, and I think that the buildup If we do this for the next several days and there are we can get coverage, then Saturday could be sizable. MARK: OK well, should we turn to the message for Saturday? Specifically, Are we caught up on what we've done with the treeman so far? Is that enough? TIMID GUY: Do we want to evaluate it all? I mean does anybody have some things that they would have liked to have seen out of it or not or? GUY #1: I think we need to brief our Treeman down on the numbers, exact numbers so we're not saying something that uh that's not true. JOHN DONOHUE: It's real important that we don't talk about homelessness in general. We're talking about a mixed-income community south loop for development without displacement. We want 1000 to 1000 units of single room occupancy hotel protected, rehabbed, or 05:14:42:05 replaced in the South Loop. And 600 units of family housing and 50% of the jobs. But the idea is we're not hitting the Democrats. We're hitting Daley and the South Loop. And that's really important. And he has told I mean you've hit on this a lot , Ron, that he said he would meet with us and he has not done it. LADY IN BLUE: And I think that the sign that he's carrying should say, "Mayor Daley. ALL: murmurring If I were a tree would you care about me?" so his name would be JOHN DONOHUE: They're done. They're done already. We made them. TIMID GUY: I would even make if that sign could be bigger. JOHN DONOHUE: That sign is too small he needs a mortarboard. TREEMAN: You know not even a mortarboard. You know what we should do is we should get a burlap thing made like a vest-type thing to go know over before I put the headpiece on And have it on the front and the back. You know what I'm saying Mark? MARK: Well a mortarboard would put it on both sides. TREEMAN: OK well a mortarboard I don't care but it does need to be on 05:15:40:01 the front because people come up behind me and tap me on the back and I've got to turn around but they look and we saw some of the things and they look at the back. We did make up new ones that say "Mayor Daley, If I dressed up like a tree would you care about me?" Uh they just got through doing a bunch of them so we should get it bigger and on both sides. MARK: We could just tie 2 pieces of poster-board together. That would do it. JOHN DONOHUE: Right. TIMID GUY: Any other thing? MARK: The other thing that would be good would be to have an all purpose press release or some some what is I mean What isŠ Who is treeman? That isn't specific to the first event that we had. I think we were sort of short on specific written information. GUY #1: On specific what? MARK: Well on written information that was detailed that like outlined the campaigns goals and so if we really do have a specific message we want Treeman to be getting across it would be good to have that specific message on a piece of paper to be able to give to everybody. JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah and even Treeman has asked us to write that down. So he's keying in on the items TREEMAN: (unintelligible) somebody write a script for me. Give it to me tonight and I'll have it down in my mind. GUY #1: And I guess the other thing I guess we should consider I've 05:16:43:00 gotten close to Daley twice and without too much of a hassle, I should be handing him a letter with somethingŠ LADY IN BLUE: Inviting him on Saturday. GUY #1:inviting him something. I need to give him something. I mean they didn't make the effort that they did yesterday from me getting to him. LADY IN BLUE: Well, I think these points here that we mentioned it would be good to hand to him. Just these points that he probably has them but to keep reminding him of what we want in the South Loop. JOHN DOHUE: Remind him but also I think the other part of it. You know, meet with us. Thatıs our demand meet with us. GUY #1: Yeah, the other day, yesterday, and today. Today he ignored me more than yesterday. JOHN DONOHUE: Fight Back, you know if we don't know only say that 05:17:26:00 but we hand him a letter wherever we are you know. Bam! You know. 05:17:40:00 ED: coughs JOHN DONOHUE: In the why, the tree will be planted in the median on Wabash in front of the James Saint James hotel because it is one of the 05:18:03:00 buildings I would not say where the city has designated for removal. That's not exactly right. They're hoping that somebody will buy it and knock it down so they won't be directly involved. ED: Wants to see removed. What the city wants to see removed. TIMID GUY: What the city wants to see demolished. MARK: Yeah, I think I did it because I used the word removal and somewhere else I thought had used destruction yeah that's what happened I was go into say destroy yeah we can do demolish. LADY IN BLUE: Yeah and (phone rings) I don't know if this one makes any difference or if there's some drawings that I'm not aware of, but the drawings are coming from children from shelters. MARK: This building right across the street hear. 05:18:46:00 JOHN DONOHUE: No that's not adjacent. MARK: No well not immediately adjacent but sort of in the area was the idea. OLD LADY: Are we maybe this can get around both those issues. Are we trying to be more specific than we need to be in the why? I mean like talking about why exactly there on Wabash. I mean maybe we don't need to be...point out the south the St. James and maybe the why should be the more broader message. MARK: I'll tell you why I put the St. James is just because I was looking for the tie to this Tuesday morning's hit that seems to have focused on the St. James at least that's what the press picked up so that would continue that theme. um. TIMID GUY: Why right there at that corner. MARK: Right, and that's why I suggest the symbolism of it so that was my thinking on it. And John on theŠ OLD LADY: We have to change the low rent because it's not I mean, 05:19:47:00 MARK: Um, but, but this is evidence of what is going to the city sponsor will built. So that's we don't have to do it in this case, but I think we should think about making an example of that and saying here go, here go the first nine families. JOHN DONOHUE: That's a very big uh living That's a very big That's a very big um, piece of our tour I mean that's one that's one of the places we hit on our tour. MARK: OK so we'll just take that part out. JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah. MARK: I'll have to say this tree is different from than what the mayor has been doing and that's where it gets complicated. JOHN DONOHUE: Right. LADY IN BLUE: Isn't there some way to phrase what the actual sign is saying into the news release "If I were a tree would you care about me?" 05:20:37:00 in in something that picks up the slogan. JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah and the tree would be placing down our roots and the tree would symbolize planted there all the low income people and the homeless people who live in the community. And we're setting down our roots...So here's a permanent symbol Treeman isn't going you know be around forever but this tree represents the low income and it's gonna be a permanent symbol there... A tree not planted by the city but planted by all those people...Homeless and low income. LADY IN BLUE: Putting down our roots. TIMID GUY: Problems for example the cops were down here when we did they walked with you is that right? LADY IN BLUE: Yeah they were sitting out there. When we got there they were waiting. 05:21:38:00 ED: It is a major problem. TIMID GUY: I think carrying that stuff is a major problem and I realize you have difficulties in doing that but I think I think I'd say well we gotta figure that out because otherwise I I I have a feeling it won't happen. ED: It's always been a concern because these things are not light and the only other way to do it is if we had a dump truck, literally a dump truck 05:22:00:00 that it fell out of the back and it'd be all over the street. TIMID GUY: What if we had a trailer? ED: A what? TIMID GUY: A trailer. Then you could just drive the trailer to the median and dump it or at least get it so you don't have to carry it so you could just so you could just. GUY#1: One of those U-Hauls? TIMID GUY: Yeah, a U-haul open-air trailer. MARK: So you could leave the trailer with the dirt and the ties in your Catholic Charities lot the night before and just haul it out in the morning. TIMID GUY: I just think, I think that if you're walking down Wabash at 10 o'clock with a railroad tie and the cops already know you're going to be doing it. I think they could make it difficult for you. Then you could move your ties and you could pick it up and you could pick it up and you could...I don't know what they'd do. JOHN DONOHUE: That's a good idea a U-Haul trailer. Just tell them that just go out there with a U-Haul trailer put it in the trailer. 05:23:01:00 ED: If we have a (unintelligible) cause it's so close. Here we are having a picnic afterwards at home. That's what we've been selling. JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah, I talk as a matter of fact I talked to St. Lucas and Taste of St. Lucas is really a a a lunch for homeless people. TRACY: Oh that's what it is. JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah that's what it is. And they ask for a ten-dollar donation for people who can pay it. But they're gonna have a hundred homeless people there and we're going to bring another hundred so I told them we'd give them a hundred bucks for the food. They're going to have chicken, rice, beans, and salad. ED: Perfect. Perfect. MARK: And that's at what time? JOHN DONOHUE: It's at 1 o'clock but they're going to be feeding all afternoon, so whatever time we get there is no problem. ALL: Murmur JOHN DONOHUE: It's in the yard at St. Lucas atras. OLD LADY: Is..Is there any chance that there is a room that they could let you use for that Š 05:23:52:00 ED: I'll go there and ask. JOHN DONOHUE: You know what would be great Ed? If you could get them mobilized real early. ED: Yeah. JOHN DONOHUE: To do something with the ties and uh dirt. Get it out in the street. OLD LADY: Yeah but if there's I hope that there's 50 of them that's an awful lot of people. TRACEY: We can't bring it out early. JOHN DONOHUE: Just to get them involved some. MARK: Weıre throwing this back and forth and there are things we have to do not doing the things we've got to be doing. We've got to play this by ear. And just hope that we get a good turnout of people from St. James who come across the stree and you know join us in this ED: OK well do we know anybody at the St. James that we could work with in there that we could get flyers to? JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah there is a guy. ED: Is there? JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah. ED: Donıt Tony live there? The guys that clean the cars, aren't most of them from the St. James? JOHN DONOHUE: Yeah they're from the St. James. 05:24:46:00 TREEMAN: They got run out this morning by the way. ED: Did they. TREEMAN: Yeah JOHN DONOHUE: But there's a..there's a guy who works there, I am sure of his name. MARK and JOHN:Ed has to do that. JOHN DONOHUE: Because he is the one who knows the ED: But then somebody should go somebody should be, Iıd like to be at PGM cause tend to know. LADY IN BLUE: Somebody needs to JOHN DONOHUE: Could you go to the halfway house in St. (unintelligible) TIMID GUY: So now we can't do that. GUY#1: So now someone needs to drive the truck. MARK: Well you're gonna you're gonna be back right Ed? Now, you're gonna be back. ED: Yeah. MARK: The truck the truck is gonna be here, loaded sitting by the side of the road ok. Ed is definitely going to be back at what 10:45 ok. We're not going to do anything until the buses show up right, because we want the people around to protect us and to make the event happen. So assuming that when all the buses are here all the staff will be here too. ED: No I'm just getting stressed that's all, I'm just getting stressed that's all. 05:25:46:00 JOHN DONOHUE: What's not gonna work? OLD LADY: Well, I think I think it is ok because the truck goes with the construction. You're coming back to do the construction. ED: Right. OLD LADY: You need people to help you. ED: Right. OLD LADY: But so it's ok for him to drive some where... MARK: We're gonna have, we're gonna have a hundred guys off these buses who can help you do the construction once we get to that point and I think ED: But you have to count on some people I mean yeah, you're right. GUY #1:Well we're gonna be there. JOHN DONOHUE: Well at that point we'll all be there. MARK: Well yeah. GUY #1: We'll be there for you Ed. We're you're grunts. We're your grunts, Ed. ALL: Laughing MARK: Weıll allbe standing on the sidewalk and Edıs by himself... GUY #1: Hurry up the cops are coming. MARK: OK so as long as you sort of run the show on the costruction we're fine. ED: Well just so you know it's basically there're 12 railroad ties. We're making a square 2 high. We put them up in a square, we dump the dirt in. We get this tree and some flowers, we plant it. I mean the hardest part is getting it all off the truck and just loading it. I I thought twice about railroad spikes because they're like 9 inches and you have to take a big mallet and you have to hammer it in. It'll take forever. I'm not gonna use those. I think we'll just use the ties. They're heavy enough because they're going to be taken apart anyway. It's not like we're gonna keep it there right? So it'll work. It'll work though. 05:27:06:00 JOHN DONOHUE: Are we going to have 12 ties or 8? ED: 12 ties I said 12. TRACEY: So 3 high? MARK: Are we doing it in. ED: I was figuring on 12 we should probably just have 8, because 2 high is plenty enough. JOHN DONOHUE: Itıs enoughŠand what do we have a tree? ED: 3 high gets a little shaky. That could fall. JOHN DONOHUE: Do we have a we don't have a tree? Huh? TREEMAN: I'll jump in the middle of the dirt. 05:27:34:00 JOHN DONOHUE: Who's 05:27:35:00 ED: Iıll work on the tree. JOHN: Youıll work on the tree. LADY: no making a box of the ties out of the planner. ED: Basically we want to train them on some flowers, right. MARK: Will Lets imagine how this unfolds sort of step for step JOHN: Waint a minute mark you were saying no. TIMID GUY: I am nervous ah ah maybe I shouldnıt be but ...I ... I donıt know having four people doing four things or I donıt know, Iım just nervous you know Itıs gonna be big deal JOHN: it is...yeah. TIMID GUY: Itıs a big deal and and I agree itıs gonna happen like everyone is gonna just pitch in and itıs gonna happen I perfer to plan it like I perfer one person like I Perfer Ed to be here at 10:00 know who his four people are who he can count on know that at you know 10:47 he is in that truck and driving to the corner. Know that at 10:30 all the buses are going to arrive, knowing... you know what I mean thatıs... you know thatıs all I Œm saying. I...But...If that canıt happen then, then weıll just kinda of do it... JOHN: Where do you see that... 05:28:45:00 JOHN: What time would you get there. ED: I could get there at 7:30 JOHN: You would get there at 7:30 ED: Yeah JOHN: Yeah... umh. Could you recruit ED: OK JOHN: Ten Guys ED: Yeah JOHN: Recruit ten definite guys ED: Ok JOHN: But you would be over there with a couple of other people, Right? ED: Right JOHN: Two people from Judyıs place ED: Right JOHN: You recruit ten people and bring them over and train them ED: Okay... On what to do JOHN: On what to do ED: Exactly JOHN: You know ED Yeah JOHN: You take them out to breakfast ED: yeah JOHN: you talk about what your going to do, you know? ED: Yeah...They get excited..like they... JOHN Get them excited, bring them over here, show them the ties, the dirt, the place you going to do it, walk them around, you know, you begin to build your crew, right? Then at 10:30 everybody comes, hereıs your, got your crew. You know whoŒs gonna do what. ED: Okay JOHN: Does that sound good? ED: Yeah TRACY: You like that Mark... JOHN: Then somebody else stays back there reving up the troops ED: Mark likes that too.. TIMID GUY: I like that Idea JOHN: Huh? 05:29:43:00 ED: Mark likes that idea PLANNERS: In audible ED: It Œs good...itıs a good suggestion..very good TIMID GUY: So lets say that ah... ok lets call this... so Sonny and Tracy are at pgm from 7:30 on... OLD LADY: Now... Now you have to check with Sonny and Tracy... 05:30:02:00 MARK: I...I think we get everybody down to the site on the sidewalks around the median before they show up with their truck and then their tuck drives up stops they start pulling the stuff out but they are being watched the whole time by all of us ED: say that again MARK: Right cause then we got some...protection ED: Say that again Mark I get the truck with my ten guys MARK: You and your ten guys go to the truck but you donıt come out onto wabash until all of us all the spectators are there around that median watching you drive up you unload and that gives us a certain amount, one it looks good for the event and two it gives us a certain amount of protection 05:30:48:00 ED: This is a closed bed truck. So the guys could actually be in the truck MARK: Sure...and open bed...sure... TRACY: maybe...if thereıs room MARK: If the police really wanted to be mean they could ticket you for that though if you open up and there are ten guys standing in the back PLANNERS: (responding, In audible) ED: Alright, Then theyıre not in the truck TIMID GUY: I would say theyŠ TRACY VO:. Then they could walk from here. TIMID GUY: That the people who turn out should come to the coalition for the homeless should come upstairs inside be in here and then leave here at 10:55 MARK:... and we walk down ED: Then he would come out... TIMID GUY: You wait and Ed your just waiting for them to be the outside ED: Iım just waiting for them, I mean...actually somebody should give me a signal that they are all there right? How would I know ALL: Talking at once. 05:31:02:00 The CCH meeting still goes on ­what people say are unclear 05:32:53:00 (outside) ED: what weıre going to do is when the wood ties come off when the regular ties come off you know set up and order in squares then you guys take you shovels and get on the truck and ŠŠ the dirt into the square. And then the guys with the rakes will start raking it all neat, ok? so once weıve got to wait for after the wood ties get down and then to the square and then shovels it. It wonıt take very long at all. Ok? And then youıll take the shovels with you when you go over to wait for the truck to come. No beyond the truck, no beyond the van youıll be right before the St. James hotel with your shovels, ok? 05:34:25:00 (inside) JOHN: Let me have your attention just for a minute. I am John Donohue for those who donıt know me, the director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. And some of you I know, some of you I donıt but.. Thanks a lot for coming out today. Our idea today is to you know weıve been having this campaign in the South Loop because Mayor Daley moved in a block away. Since he moved in, they want to do upscale hosing, 100,000 condominiums, right down the street theyıre doing town homes where there are going to have three to seven bathrooms. And they want to knock down single room occupancy hotels which is housing for a lot of people right? For us, right? So today weıre going to plan a tree right in front of the St. James hotel which is in danger hotel. They zoned that for commercial use they want somebody to knock the hotel down and put a grocery store there. 05:35:38:00 WOMAN: Whatıs they gonna do about 300 people staying there? JOHN: thatıs right, exactly. WellŠ not 300 people, there is186 rooms in the St. James hotel all right? So exactly, what you gonna do about the people who maybe they arenıt there today, but could use that hotel tomorrow if they make enough money selling Street Wise or wiping down cars. WOMAN:Š..(unclear) JOHN: Exactly. 05:36:03:00 JOHN: So what weıre saying is we fired campaign weıve got built two sing room occupancy hotels in the South Loop, one by Lakefront SRO and one by Central City Housing Ventures. Central City Housing Ventures is just for Oakbrown(?). But thatıs only 730 units. If they knocked down the rest of the hotels in the area, thatıll be 1,000 units for out and we only get 730 back. That donıt add up. We shouldnıt be subtracting from housing in this city. We should be adding. 05:36:39:00 JOHN: Now, the point we want to make today is Mayor Daley spent 12.3 million dollars on trees. And in a few minutes, weıll show you Treeman. Treeman is a homeless guy who dresses up like a tree and for the next 2 weeks, heıs going to be in Mayor Daleyıs face. PEOPLE: Good! All right! JOHN: and heıs going to have a sign on, heıs going to have a sign on, it says, "Do I have to dress up like a tree for you to care about me, Mayor Daley?" PEOPLE: Amen! All right! JOHN: Right? The other point I wanted to make is there is going to be some press out there. 05:37:25:00 JOHN: The group is going to march down on the sidewalk, stay on the sidewalk until the truckıs comes down the street with trees, flowers, the railroad ties, and dirt, right? And then youıre going walk to the street. Weıre going to drive the truck right up on the median and start planting the trees. Now, there could be some police there, right? MAN: Do we have a permit? 05:38:00:00 JOHN: We do not have a permit. MAN: Oh, oh. JOHN: Weıve not asked for a permit. Now, listen to this. Listen to this. Nobody is going to get arrested. If the police say get off the street, get off the street. If they say canıt plant it here, canıt plant it here. Now, some of us, some of US, you guys just get out of the way and stay on the sidewalk. Some of us might get arrested because we want to plant that tree, but you guys just play cool, donıt get involved. We donıt want any homeless person to get arrested, all right? Thatıs our deal now. PEOPLE: All right. JOHN: And donıt just donıt get excited, ŒahŠı just play cool, you know, ok? Some of us might, you know, hit tree, you know. But weıre ready for it, ok? PEOPLE: ok. JOHN: We can do it, but you guysŠ 05:39:00:00 JOHN: And after everythingıs over, after everythingıs over, weıre going to Taste of St. Lucas. PEOPLE: Yeh! JOHN: Weıre gonna have buses, weıre gonna drive you out there, weıre gonna wait, weıre gonna bring you back to wherever you going, North side, Southside, Westside, shelterŠ weıre gonna drop you off, ok? PEOPLE: Ok. JOHN: And lunch is going to be rice, chicken, and saladŠ PEOPLE: YEH!! SONGLADY: No hotdog! All right! JOHN: Right, no hotdog! Let me say something.. SONGLADY: No hotdog! ANOTHER WOMAN: I guess weıre tired of hotdog. SONGLADY: OK. JOHN: Does anybody have questions? SONGLADY: When do we start? JOHN: We start, we Œre gonna plant the tree at 11 oıclock. Itıs 10:20. At 10:30, weıll go downstairs and weıll just get together, ok? SONGLADY: Whatıs that theme? UhŠ. What do we want, umŠ. What do we want, homeless, when do we want it, now. JOHN: Iım gonna present my friend Ron. 05:40:05:00 TREEMAN: Here is what we want. Iım also a homeless person just like you. I come here to volunteer and to my work. What we want to do is we want to make an impact that we want to be accepted in Mayor Daleyıs neighborhood. We have tight to live in this neighborhood. We have a right for housing in this neighborhood. We have a rightŠ..(unclear). And it was our neighborhood before it was Mayor Daleyıs. He cameŠ.(unclear). So we know that. The obvious thins we want to do is have enthusiasm form out heart. And like John was saying you know thee are some people who are organized. Donıt worry about that. Just be yourself. Stay whatıs in your heart, whatıs in your heart because you want affordable place to live, you want a job, and you want to be accepted in neighborhood. And does everybody have to dress up like tree to be accepted by Mayor Daley? PEOPLE: NO! TREEMAN: Meanwhile, youıll meet the treeman. Heıll be there. Heıs the one who believes inŠ.(unclear)..if I had to dress up like tree,Š(unclear) no reason heıs gonna like me. 05:41:03:00 Obviously, he spent 11.3 million dollars for one week, for trees and flowers for the Democrat Convention where he could house awful lot of people. We want the voice to be heard. We want the neighbor know we are here this morning. PEOPLE: YEH!!! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! JOHN: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! JOHN: WHEN DO WE WANT IT! PEOPLE: NOW! 05:41:42:00 SONGLADY: OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD, RICHARD WHY DONıT YOU OPEN THAT DOOR. PEOPLE: OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD, RICHARD WHY DONıT YOU OPEN THAT DOOR. SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? PEOPLE: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? PEOPLE: NOW! SONGLADY: OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD, RICHARD WHY DONıT YOU OPEN THAT DOOR. SONGLADY: HOSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT THE GREEDY! PEOPLE: HOSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT THE GREEDY! PEOPLE: HOSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT THE GREEDY! SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? PEOPLE: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? PEOPLE: HOSES! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? PEOPLE: NOW! SONGLADY: OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD, RICHARD WHY DONıT YOU OPEN THAT DOOR. SONGLADY: YO, GO!!! 05:42:57:00 JOHN: Save your voice, save your voice. I think weıre gonna need your voice. There is one more. JOHN: I WANT A J.O.B. SO I CAN E.A.T. PEOPLE: I WANT A J.O.B. SO I CAN E.A.T. PEOPLE: I WANT A J.O.B. SO I CAN E.A.T. People talking and chanting while thereıre waiting for going out. 05:45:00:00 Outside of shelter men walking out of the door. 05:45:36:00 P: (Loud Chanting) (Not clear what they are saying) ŠŠŠWhat We WantŠ NOWŠOPEN THE DOOR!!! OPEN THE DOOR.. open the doorŠŠ 05:46:06:00 lady speaking to others about tree planting LADY: We are in the middle here and we want you to plant your roots. P: Amen LADY: We have designated tree planters. Thereıs going to be putting down their roots right out here in the middle of, of the street here. Homeless men, women with children single adults P: AMEN LADY: .. and women and especially children. This is where we gonna put down our roots and send a message. P: Right Here LADY: Right here. So letıs do some chanting and some singing now. P: OKAY LADY: Whereıs our song leader? (some people finding their song leader) SONGLADY: I donıt know the song. (She takes megaphone) SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW!!! SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES. SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? 05:47:00:00 P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: (Singing SONg) Open The door Richard, Richard why donıt you open that door. Open the door Richard. Richard why donıt you open that door? SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW!!! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: (Singing SONg) Open The door Richard, Richard why donıt you open that door. Open the door Richard. Richard why donıt you open that door? SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: (Singing SONg) YOU Open The door Richard, Richard why donıt you open that door. 05:48:00:00 Open the door Richard. Richard why donıt you open that door? SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: GIVE ME WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: (Singing SONg) Open The doorŠ SongLady and people are now chanting and singing another thing SONGLADY & P: J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY: AND WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: HEY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY END OF THE GREEDY. HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY END OF THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY END OF THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY 05:49:00:00 END OF THE GREEDY SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHEN? P: NOW SONGLADY: WHAT YOU WANT? P: HOUSES! SONGLADY: WHEN? P: NOW SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO YOU WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: ANDŠŠ cut off for next shot Treeman in front of housing 05:49:35:00 HARDHAT: Guys doing goodŠ. In housingŠ HARDHAT GUY IN VAN FOR TREE PLANTING 05:49:43:00 VANLADY: lets go, itıs a shitty job. HARDHAT: yeah. VANLADY: I didnıt even wear socks today. Shit what kinda shit is this? Cow shit? HARDHAT: Pork 05:50:00:00 VANLADY: HORSE? VANLADY: no HARDHAT: Who knows. (Van and noises in the street) (mumbling) VANLADY: Where are we exiting? VANGIRL: Straight out where we came. VANLADY: Before you guys right? VANGIRL: After. VANGIRL: We are going to get the guysŠ VANLADY: That are getting the tree? VANGIRL: Yeah (van and traffic noises) (Protestors in the street protesting) HARDHAT: Come on lets go. VANGIRL: You wait. HARDHAT: COME ON LETS GO PULL EM DOWN Guys come to van and remove trees from van (protestors still in background) HARDHAT: COME ON Pull them off! (Clapping and shuffling of equipment taken off truck) (Protestors still protesting) 00:51:00:00 HARDHAT: Come on! Come on! CONST: One at a time! CONST: Pull that tree, step back. (Still hear protestors chanting) CONST: Hold it Hold it. HARDHAT: Come on. Somebody grab another one. HARDHAT: Come on! Come on! CONST: Lets go! CONST: Step back 00:52:00:00 (Still Hearing Protestors in Background) Guys still taking trees off truck (A lot of commotion from the construction guys taking trees off truck) 00:53:00:00 guys are still putting dirt in ground from truck (Protestors are still protesting) SONGLADY&P: WE NEED A J.O.B. SO WE CAN E.A.T. WE NEED A J.O.B. SO WE CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! (UNCLEAR THE CHANT THAT THE SONGLADY AND PEOPLE ARE SINGING) SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: NOW WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY&P: HEY MAYOR DALEY, LETS..(UNCLEAR) NOT JAIL. SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY. HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT 00:54:00:00 FOR THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY HOUSES FOR THE NEEDY NOT FOR THE GREEDY SONGLADY: WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY: SAY WHAT DO WE WANT? P: HOUSES!! SONGLADY: WHEN DO WE WANT IT? P: NOW! SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. SONGLADY & P: I NEED A J.O.B SO I CAN E.A.T. Stopped at 05;58;13;00 006 06:00:40:00 ROBIN: walking down the street - camera follows walking - sign that says outside building that says "Polling Place Colegia Electoral". Robin enters building in which she is going to vote 06:02:13:00 ROBIN: in building walking towards desk from which she is going to pick her vote. Camera on Robin while waiting in line Robin says "good morning" to the people that handle the voting procedure and submits her papers. They give it back to her. Puts it in envelope. Camera pans to people looking at the registration books (Zoom in) at books and out to man handing paper to Robin. 06:04:35:00 ROBIN: talks with men at registration desk. Tells her where to sign. She signs. Walks towards "hidden" stand to vote 06:05:35:00 CU of ROBIN behind stand Robin walks away from stand. Camera tracks showing back of stands back again to Robin submitting her vote. She walks out of the building. Q. How do you feel today? What did you just do? ROBIN: Well, I just voted for the first time in a number of years. I feel good about it. I feel like maybe if enough people came out to vote some changes will be made, maybe some things being done that let politicians know that people are coming out to vote, that they are concerned about the things going on. um Basically to change things. Q. How does this compared um to at Daleysı house? ROBIN:Ah It was different. That was a power thing too, but this is a power thing that as an individual I made a difference where at Mayor Daleysı it was a group of people together. So I feel like as an individual here I made a 06:06:45:00 difference today just my one little vote counted you know for something. A lot of people feel that 1 vote doesnıt count and I think it does. Thanks. ROBIN: You're welcome. Bye bye. (She turns around and leaves). Interview with Robin LeFleur-(Second Part)(There are parts of interview missing.) 06:07:00:00 ROBIN: Most women, when they go through a divorce. A lot of people I know have gone. They start becoming, they are in the poverty level of income and that shouldnıt be like that. It shouldnıt be like that with children. Q: Uh, tell me what did you think about the protest that you were involved in? ROBIN: I thought it was great. Oh, the protest I thought the protest was great because the only thing that I really regret is that Mayor Daley didnıt walk out of his door. Because I would like to meet him face to face and let him know, "How are you doing sir? I was one of those people outside your house picketing. Iım one of those women with homeless children living in the city that you are doing nothing to help. I want him to know. I want him to know that my children are one of those that the lawsuit going against his Board of Education. Iım one of the plaintiffs, I want him to know this. I would like to shake his hand and let him know what I think about his Board of Education. 06:08:00:00 R: And the way he runs this city, and the fact that if you donıt have money, you donıt count as far as he goes. I bet you if I was Michael Jordanıs wife heıd be all in my face. Okay, but the fact that Iım a homeless woman who is over here that youıve never heard of. I donıt count. Q: Umm, well, this is the same, but how did you feel about taking part? R: I enjoyed it. I felt, I felt, like I had done something great. I felt I had done something by being a small part of it. It made me felt like I counted for something. Like, you know, somebody is going to see this and maybe heıll see it. So, if he ever sees me walking down the street, heıll know... Q: Part, part of what? R: About being part of that protest at the Mayorıs house. I felt, I just wish we couldıve found out exactly which house was his so I couldıve rang his bell you know. But I just felt really good about that. I felt that it did, you know, a lot of people said, "Maybe you didnıt do anything?" Maybe to you we didnıt do anything. But I felt I really did something. I felt I did more than a lot of people do. R: By just being there, by having my kids out there. Cause what thatıs teaching, not only do we have to protest but I was teaching my children to stand up for your rights. If you feel you deserve it then you you demand it. Donıt let anybody tell you what you deserve. You stand up and demand what you deserve. Q: Which protest were you at? R: That was the one at Mayor Daleyıs house. Q: And what happened? What happened that day? R: (Laughs) That was good. Policemen came out you know and because all the film crews were out there and everything they kept, you know they really donıt want us out there but um The tree man was there. My children were flower children and ummm, everybody uh had picket signs. And god, it was, uh and it was really great. 06:09:00:00 Interview ended incomplete.) 06:09:35:00 INTERVIEWER: (off screen) Could you tell me briefly about the story of NY Times? JOHN DONOHUE: (at desk) Well, after we did try the Treeman out there a few times, (unintelligible). And it was the Saturday that we were going to do our uh tree planting actually the Friday before. so, she called me and said um, NY Times wants to get some shots of the Treeman. I said, well, itıs perfect tomorrow morning, we will plant a tree and come to us. She said it was deadline and theyıd like to do it early morning. And we said, well, why donıt they just come to our tree planting, and she said they said they canıt. So after we talked about it for a while, then they finally said that, ah, well, he's in too much exposure already, so forget about 06:10:35:00 it. So we never got to see NY Times, except, I donıt know if you know this, but in NY Times we were mentioned, in the Sunday magazine, do you know that? INTERVIEWER: No JOHN DONOHUE: There was a whole story on old mayor Daley, new mayor Daley, and in the headline to that story was our piece on Treeman, just before the convention. INTERVIEWER: OK JOHN DONOHUE: OK 06:11:11:00 Welcome to the convention sign (Important) 06:11:51:00 (End of Convention sign footage) 06:11:52:00 BILL CLINTON: (at national convention) more and more of our people, chance to live their dreams, that is why the flame of our statue of liberty like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands citizen people, If we want to build that bridge into the twenty-first century we have to be able to say loud and clear, do You believe in the values of the Constitution? The Bill of Rights? The Declaration of Independence? If you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, then you are part of our family....(applause) You cheer now because you know this is true. You know this is 06:12:55:00 true. When you walk out of this hall, think about it. We still have too many Americans who give into their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, Swastikas were painted on the doors of some African American members of our Special Forces at Fort Bragg. Folks, for those of you who don't know what they do, the Special Forces are just what the name says, they are Special Forces. If I walk off this stage tonight and called them on the telephone and tell them to go halfway around the world and risk their lives for you and be there by tomorrow at noon, they will do it. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.(applause) Look around you.... Look around you. (There is a sentence I here I could not hear because of cheering) I'm telling you I believe in 06:13:55: working hard and playing by the rules. I'm sure enough to work tomorrow, I'm building that bridge into the twenty first century. Let me make a promise, let us in short, do the work that is before us, so then when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we 06:15:00:00 have prepared our children for the dawn. My fellow Americans, after these four good, hard years, I still believe in a place called home, a place called America. (Leaves stage) (applause) 06:15:42:00 (Crowd reaction and cheering to the speech.) 06:15:49:00 Al g. and Bill C. on stage 06:17:29:00 Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Family walk onto the stage 06:17:30:00 (Crowd reaction more cheering!) 06:19:36:00 (Balloon drop! And more cheering) 06:21:34:00 1996 (CU) DNC Sign (Good Video)(Bad Audio/of no use) 06:21:49:00 Bill Clinton on the Big Screen No dialogue (Good Video Clip) 06:21:50:00 06:22:03:00 Delegates dancing to gospel music. 06:22:04:00 06:22:16:00 Woman in red, white and blue sequined hat 06:22:22:00 06:22:47:00 Reporter on DNC Floor (Jump Cut) (may use for short video clip) 06:23:13:00 (VOICE OF MALE: over ABC and NBC News boxes)....strong and also the helpless father we have asked that you help us feed the people as we challenge through ____ that we might do justice that we might love mercy and we might....(Audio and video clip can be used separately.) 06:23:57:00 Bill Clinton: (on the big screen against guns, then at podium) Under the current law, thousands of people, even those who have wielded weapons in their assault but were convicted of misdemeanors can still buy handguns with potentially deadly consequences. I believe strongly in the right of Americans to own guns. I have used them as a hunter with great joy. But make no mistake; those who threaten the safety of others do not deserve our trust. If you're convicted of a felony, you shouldn't have one. If you're a fugitive from the law, you shouldn't have a gun. If you're stalking or harassing women or children, you shouldn't have a gun. And if you commit an act of violence against your spouse and your child, you shouldn't have a gun. (Leaves podium) 06:24:56:19 Arkansas Delegate sign (Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:25:13:16 Illinois Delegate sign ((Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:25:30:10 Macarena Dancing (Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:25:54:12 Outside the United Center ((Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:26:18:25 Woman w/bear on hat (Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:26:55:00 crowd in united center hall(crowd noise) 06:28:17:00 Convention floor with union members (MOS - Video w/music-no dialogue) 06:28:47:25 Preparing the United Center 06:29:30:00 CU of Video screen preparing the United Center 06:30:59:04 Woman delegate dancing (Holding Colorado sign) 06:31:33:11 people talking to news camera/various people in hall 06:32:46:00 GAY POLITICIAN: (speaking to audience) I came home to get my fix of politics and newspapers and I never thought I be able get in and I didnıt really-I donıt think I said itıs cause I am gay I wouldnıt get in. I just figured it was going to be tough and being gay on top of it going to be hard and Iım one of those people I just canıt do something and not let them know Iım gay and it just runs against the grain of who I am and so Iıve had an interesting ride from the day I walked stepped into Washington DC being openly gay and I can tell you I had a lot more backlash in Congress than I did at the White House almost at the White House it fells like I when further because they are so much more open to it and they do judge you on your merits. Its-its-its thereıs all kinds different of people but you are judged on your merits um so thatıs one piece of it. The access to the inclusion that we feel as working here and um that other people feel. Iıve had people call me up and say I've got this problem and they were almost drop dead when I called them back from the White House. That someone actually called them back to talk to them about some of these problems. On top of that, thereıs the whole list of accomplishments that the President has done. Thereıs many firsts I wrote 06:33:46:00 down on the way in We were having breakfast. I thought well maybe I was thinking of a couple and as I kept going I was thinking the list goes on and on. He was the first president to order um direct the federal agencies and departments to um write nondiscrimination policies for sexual orientation. He was the first president issue executive orders for security clearances for which none of us would be working, unless we were in the closet but if we were to go to any event which was political and ever talk about being gay, that would be grounds for dismissal at least to hold up our security clearance. I still know people that are trying to get security clearances that are mired in the old-you know trying to get out old court cases that they are in trying to get government to change and that was changed right away and thatıs significant. Thatıs very significant. That allows us to come to the table and talk about our issues because before you couldnıt unless you said well I have a friend who is bothered by this issue or my friends or my friends hear that the gay and lesbians want something. Now I can 06:34:46:00 just say: Iım gay and you know me. So donıt tell me that what theyıre telling you, you believe because there is no way that I would do telling you what gay and lesbians do. Um and he was the first sitting president to ever endorse um gay and lesbian civil rights legislation. Um there are over 100 openly gay and appointees that meet all the time with the President, Vice President. They come to the White House-have meetings-its open and in their positions, not only do they talk about gay and lesbian specific um issues, but they can bring gays and lesbians into the issues they work on-whether its labor or justice or immigration. They are at the table and a lot of them are at very high positions. Where they have a lot of pull and sweat and they are able to bring it in and talk about gay and lesbians issues in their everyday work. Um President Clinton is the first sitting president to ever appoint an openly lesbian federal judge-Deborah Batts in New York. First time ever. 06:35:57:00 Um he has spoken out against homophobia by using the word. He said gay and lesbian. He said our names openly-several times. Um heıs the first president to appoint a liaison which now Richardıs taken over. Marsha Scott was there before. Now Richardıs taken over there. I was lucky to be able to work there with Marsha, which was an interesting and rewarding job I did there. He allowed open lesbians to sit at the health abbacy meting in policy formulations for the first time ever. He had them in the White House to talk about lesbian health issues and then they followed up with policy formulation meetings where their voices were heard for the first time. Um he held the first White House conference on HIV and AIDS which we were all three a big part of and he started the first office of AIDS housing at HUD to make sure discrimination against people with AIDS in housing specifically was enforced. 06:36:58:00 Thatıs what I could do off the top of my head for breakfast. Thereıs many other things though and I brought the list and I think one of the main points of the accomplishments is when I first came to the White House, someone asked me: How do you really feel? How do you really feel about the President? Now youıre going to be working. Youıre going to have to go out and talk to people and I said what everyone else says: Iım mad at this, Iım mad at this, I think heıs lying about this, Iım pissed off like everyone about that and we sat down and talked about certain issues and what really happened and I think that when you talk about certain issues with people the one thing that a lot of times happens is that we donıt stand up, we are used to. President Clinton is not a leader and is a homophobic. And I'll stop and Iıll say: Excuse me, what did you say? And if you stop them and 06:37:58:00 say thatıs not true, usually they could bring up say three things that he hasnıt done. But you stop and say, name three things he has done and people stop and say youıre right. I canıt think of one thing. Why is that? I donıt know. Iım not a psychologist. I donıt know why they canıt name three things. I know cause I was pissed off too. I wonıt sit here and lie and say I was happy about them too. But I know that there has been such an enormous change. And I think that it is important that when we hear people talking like that, we stop them. You donıt have to beat them up. Just say wait. Lets really talk about this. And go into a few points. A lot of them will say: I didnıt know that-I didnıt know this-I didnıt know that. And they are actually surprised at all he has done. So I think thatıs number one that people have to remember that I donıt think thereıs nothing to be embarrassed about-the Clinton record. 06:38:58:00 He has a great record. Have we gotten everything? No. Can we do more there? Yes. Because he will listen to us and we are theyıre working with him. But I think what we have to stop doing is just sitting back and letting them take the lead. On these issues, that goes right into our second when we talk about values. Every time we bring up values in gay and lesbian groups, everyone cringes. Oh no-donıt talk about values. Oh my God! Weıre not talking about the family values the way the religious right talk about family values and the republicans talk about family values. 06:39:27:00 Weıre talking about opportunity, responsibility, leadership-things like that. And you know what? We have those. So we can talk about them. Thereıs nothing wrong with talking about values. And weıve stopped. Weıve let the other side take the message-once again. And we do not use values. I have values just like Pat Robinson has values. He may not think I do, but I do. And I am just as responsible. I go to work everyday. I pay my bills. I pay my taxes and I donıt bother anyone else. I donıt steal from people. And I think by us avoiding the values talk, we devoid the values and thatıs a big problem that weıre having in the campaign. That where are the values? Why arenıt they talking about values? Theyıre great on policy. Theyıre great on fixing things. And even if you like what weıre talking about, they donıt have values attached to it. And we do have values. We just donıt put them out to prove that we have them because weıre OK. We know we have values. But you know what? We do have to put them out there and we do have to talk about them. And we have to take back the stolen rhetoric that they have taken from us. Because they own it now. It seems to me that if I wanted values, I should go join the Republican party because instantly Iıll have values. Or if I went ahead and joined the Christian Coalition, instantly Iıd have values. And we know all thatıs not true. So itıs important that when we talk about, we donıt cringe and step away. (Camera pans to audience, speech breaks up and ends) 06:40:53:00 GAY POLITICIAN: (camera pans in crowd) They keep saying this guy is a jerk, I donıtı care what he says about me and let them attack me people say I didnıt know gays or lesbians looked like that if you.... 00:41:18:00 MALE VOICE: (gay issues) the office of ---- and reach out too people of all ages, that means donıt stay within your group and I think this could be even expanded too everyone, people of different colors, ages religion and. 06:41:19:00 06:41:28:28 HRC Sign (Can use for an Intro to the event or leave as intro for Elizabeth. 06:41:30:00 ELIZABETH BIRCH: (hallway HRC) yeah do you want too oh? Can you stand a little bit over here so that you and I are sort of talking O.K. Iım Elizabeth Bir..oohh is this on camera Iım Elizabeth Birch executive director of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.CŠ. The Human Rights Campaign is an organization founded in the early 1980ıs and at that timeŠ is actually it was a pack that was a political action committee since then it has grown into a large mainstream political force in this countryŠ 06:42:05:00 Weıve gone in just this last year from 80,000 members to 200,000 members what is most important is that the Human Rights Campaign has burst into a new formula. It is no longer enough to just have muscled capability in Washington DC in terms of a lobbying team its got to be coupled with the grass roots. And that has never effectively been built in the gay and lesbian movement in America and that is what we are going to buildŠ Well the future is that we have to continue to get are organizations to work very well together. We just had a wonderful experience at the republican national convention where all the national organization and a few local ones came together under the umbrella of voices ı96Š We all set up a media 06:43:08:00 center together and worked really closely. And that was great and we need to do more of that. But were never ever going to move forward in this country again if we donıt marry really smart campaign techniques, great lobbying skills cutting edge political know how with thousands and thousands of voices. The Human Rights Campaign will have about a million members about the year 2,000 06:43:34:00 That is our goal. When you can marry constructive power with regular people saying what they need as Americanıs with great lobbying techniques that is the way you get things done in this country and weıve never built it and we need to build it now. 06:43:52:00 (End of Speech for Elizabeth) 06:43:53:00 Camera Pans the HRC luncheon (MOS) (No sound) 06:44:15:00 HARVEY F: (GAY ACTOR) you have the wrong person. I havenıt seen nothing jet.... wait what have I seen the young people (partner interrupts)oh yeah very good answer What have I seenŠ? That was a very good answerŠ you see thatıs why he is hereŠ The young people with training sent out across America to organize I think some amazing program weıve got to turn it over to the next generation and Iım very excited to see them here the generation have to be ready and the guyıs and galıs ready all and itıs very exciting to see them here working and trained with HIC moneyŠ If nothing else the next generation will be ready. 06:45:50:00 (End of Harvey Feinstein) 06:45:09:00 COLONEL: (in lobby) I think what always surprising me is how much power there is in the gay communityŠ how much enthusiasm how motivated we are as a community and as a groupŠ We are the future and we are really a part of that whole process. I mean Itıs hard not to look back on the beginnings of the civil rights movement and saying this is the beginning of another civil rights movement and it happens to be one that we very much are involved with and that were sort of the early pioneers and thatıs fine. 06:45:56:00 (End of Colonelıs speech) 06:45:56:00 GAY COUPLE, GUY1: (sitting at table) in hotel lounge What advice would we give to younger gays as far as.... What was it? If they wanted to live in an open relationship? Just to try ah try and be concerned about each other and the love that you have for each other and and try and deal with all the ahr fear and the the bashing.... the words ahr .... all of the.... the stuff that comes to you from everywhere, the media, billboards, everywhere you look, everywhere you stand itıs there and itıs telling you youıre not part of it. And it very easily can destroy what you have .... but if you just if youıre really in love and you really care about each other you just try very hard to push that in the background because you are in a perimeter anyway so you might as well just decide well, if I have to stay here I might as well make the best of it 06:46:51:00 GUY2: you almost have to .... ah .... when you are in a relationship, think of it as just a relationship and forget about.... that youıre gay cause that could really tear on you and wear on you when you.... when you focus on the fact that youıre gay and that other people are watching.... and thinking about you as gay the best thing to do is just.... between yourselves just think of it as a relationship as a relationship to another person just like anybody else.... it makes it a lot easier.... (Other guy cuts his sentence) 06:47:24:00 GUY1: especially if you donıt have a great deal of family involved in it....and we don't ahr .... and that makes it very difficult.... I would very much like to feel like the sort of the daughter in law to his parents, but they donıt care for gayness and they donıt care for me and.... eh.... and I miss that Iıd like that sort of bigger family feeling and we both between us have a lot of family members.... and there is very few ahm that really deal with us as.... not even gay people.... just as human beings, there are very few that are well past that weıre just John and Ryan weıre married and thatıs it.... you know and a few that.... that kinda get over the gayness but most of them canıt.... but they never will, so we donıt try and ask them to anymore, we just go about our business.... And.... live our lives because we are the most important thing to each other GUY 2: It is important to work on them but the most important thing is to focus on the other person.... thatıs the most difficult challenge any relationship, no matter what the marriage, who youıre married too or what the relationship is, is to work on .... continuously work on the 06:48:24:00 relationship (other guy cuts sentence .... .not understandable...) GUY1: when thinks really get rough with us.... our big thing is.... our number one thing is leaving is not a option GUY2: ride it out.... Interviewer: marriage ceremony.... ? GUY2: yes we have some horrendous pictures too.... hehehe ... (not understandable).... no we got, had,....a union in Chicago .... if I remember a church just up on Belmont (other guy cuts in) GUY1; Metropolitan Community Church GUY2: up on Belmont.... it was in May and it was extremely hot, we wore baby-blue tuxedos.... GUY1: can u imagine baby-blue tuxedos.... With.... this was in 1978.... afros oh god Iıd give anything to do those pictures over GUY2: bell-bottoms.... had blue champagne for the the reception, there 06:49:22:00 was a real nice real small crowd of course. (End Gay Couple) 06:49:22:19 ELISABETH BIRCH: (HRC awards Elisabeth at podium) unconstitutional, ridiculous, defensive, (??not understandable..chat) .... I wanna tell you that we have got to help our friends and not hurt our adversary and we understand the politics of this moment.... But.... everyone in this country better start understanding our politics.... (crowd cheers).... we are.... we are nothing short than gifts from god, weıre very magnificent people and we deserve everything this country has to offer including (people cheer) 06:50:15:00 marriage.... Iıd like to welcome you to the Human Rights Campaign equality awards.... ahr .... this event is the second event that kicks off outvote 96 and as you know this weekend is gonna be packed with incredible skills building and workshops and networking opportunities and weıve got the very very best from around the country to share their skills with you.... ahm .... but tonight we also gonna recognize a few very very beloved people ahm .... who have helped us straight and gay lead our pack, give us light, give us hope in this country. Iıd like to bring back our treasure Harvey Firestein .... ahm .... as you know in addition to his incredible career as a playwright ahm Harvey has been a livelong activist and one thing about Harvey is, he is understood throughout his life all parts of the political continuum, ahm, 06:51:16:00 these days we can see him most notably in Independence Day (crowd is cheering) doing a wonderful performance (crowd cheering) ahm and on a personal note ahm, I just wanna mention that.... ahm .... by pure coincidence.... em .... I came to be the mentor, the legal mentor to Harveyıs young cousin Adena Hillbird when she started at my law- school.... so Harvey come and take us through these incredible awards.... ! (Crowd cheers, she leaves frame). 06:52:16:00 HARVEY F: She is the highest ranking officer ever discharged from the armed services because of the military policy of discrimination against gay and lesbian service members.... thatıs right.... after 26 years in the army, earning a brown star for her services as nurse in Vietnam, she was separated to the army reserves in 1992 after answering honestly, when the military asked if she were a lesbian, she has fought the discharge ever since and won reinstatement to the national guard in 1994...(crowd 06:53:05:00 cheers .... she continuos to serve while that decision is under appeal .. appeal .... Newt stop it....(crowd cheers) heıs always sucking up to someone ....(crowd cheers) .... dignify thatıs what they said.... her story of courage and integrity is a lesson and inspiration. She stood up for herself and for our community and she continuos to present a brave and dignified answer to the lies and the cowardness that marked the militaryıs policy of discrimination.... the first equality award is presented to Colonel 06:53:58:00 Margeretha Carmela! .... (crowd cheers, Harvey leaves the stage). (End Harveyıs Introduction) 06:54:38:00 Colonel: Before I say anything else I do need to make a correction (crowd cheers).... one of many.... (crowd).... itıs not Newt under there .... (crowd cheers).... it was Glen Close .... (Crowd).... hehhe .... not Meryl Streep.... no sometimes we have... unusual opportunities .... ahr .... I thought that mine was going to be to go to Washington and be a general.... ahr in uniform...., and ah once ah had, I had completed my service there to go to Congress and say hey guys u know we worked together for all these years 06:55:30:00 and I need to tell you that I am a lesbian, .... didnıt quite happen that way, because they asked first .... and .... I thought that people were judged on their, the work that they did and the reputation and the character of who they are, and found out that that was not the case and.... ahr .... as a result was separated from the military.... ahm .... being honest .... ah .... even though I was very old , was very late in my career.... ahm .... but my case will verify that Iım very old and that Iım very dense and so it took me a while to figure it out, and so by the time.... ah .... I was.... ah .... had been in the service for over 23 years and the question came up.... ahr .... I had figured out that I was a lesbian.... ahm .... But.... I was just going to have this little private discussion with the military.... and we were gonna change the policy and (laughing crowd).... it just was not gonna be any big deal.... ahm .... (Crowd).... And.... er.... sometimes you know you donıt realize.... ahr .... w 06:56:40:00 What .... your words .... or .... what ... impact .... ahr .... something that you say might have .... . And on times I look back and I think you know there is no way that I could have ever .... taken this journey .... if I had known in advance .... ahm .... any of the things that I have learned along the way .... ahr .... because you do learn taking one step at the time, and what you learned is .... that the cost of freedom sometimes means that you do have to settle with the past .... ahr .... before you can take that new step and walk forward and proudly and you know to .... to find a cause .... ahr .... I lost the opportunity, I thought, to be a general in the military .... ahr .... and instead .... ahm found that what Iıve gained in terms of personal freedom .... and the need to continue to speak not only on behalf of the rights of gays and lesbians in America and in the world, but it has also made me more cognicent of how we as a society discriminate against anyone who is 06:57:45:00 different and that we have to be so careful, not you know be insular in how we look forward and trying to change society for a better world tomorrow, but that we are part of that society and that we each have an opportunity.... ahr .... in our own ways, we may not even know what that is at the moment .... ahr .... and for me 3 years ago I was honored by the Human Rights Campaign Fond .. at that time .... ahr .... with an award .... ahr .... that said Soldier of Freedom .... and .... the award today is sort of an affirmation .... that I will continue to be a soldier of freedom .... working for Human Rights for Civil Rights for all of us, and what ever small way that I can and I hope that, you know, as each of us leaves this place and this week, and .... ahr ..... of the appealing .... ahm you know.... united and together and that we have that .... that common call that we really know that each one of us makes a significant contribution as we go out and speak out on behalf of 06:58:35:00 the civil rights of everyone .... thank you very much....(she leaves the stage)..(Crowd cheers) 06:59:16:00 (End of Colonel speech, Clip ends with Feinstein returning to the podium) 06:59:19:00 (Video and Sound end at this point) 007 07:02:25:00 ANTI PHELP"S ACTIVISTS:(protesters with sign, on street) pretty much off key ....but the one woman does have a loud booming voice that I would give her.. Fred Phelps is a Baptist preacher from Topeka Kansas, who is notorious for picketing the funerals of people who have died of aids. Umm Him and his following which is basically his family members go out from city to city protesting pride parades and are here today to protest us and we are here to protest them .... (other guy) they drive here we live here.... yeah .... yeah there where here for our pride parade as well so this is their second time in like 3 months, we feel almost privileged. 07:03:05:00 BLUE-SHIRT MAN: (bystander anti-gay protest corner of Wacker and State) What I can't believe is this little girl is standing in here and her parents are teaching her to hate already, it's horrible- STRIPE-SHIRT WOMAN (bystander): At the same time you have god you have 'god chose (man interrupting) She doesnıt understand (the? luganis)? let the (greenest) go' whatever--I can't believe at the same time they're talking of god you know they're so intolerant you know, it's kinda unbelievable actually I mean. BLUE-SHIRT MAN: God would kick over these moneychanger tables and kick them out of his temple! STRIPE-SHIRT WOMAN: So, alright, that's it. (The two walk OS) 07:05:36:00 PHELPS WOMAN: (protesting across hotel) Some people, and I assume that includes you, who think that you can violate the laws of God and man and nature, and get a whole bunch of people to agree with you because theyıve turned their back on god and that thatıs gonna change the essential nature of whatıs going on here: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, it is abomination.ı It's that simple. You can-this country is on the brink of deciding whether it is going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah or not and we can not spit in the face of God and expect um that this country will endure. That's all. And all we're doinı is preachinı to you, reminding you, we're reminding you that there's a God in heaven and that thereıs a day of accountability, a day of reckoning, and it is the Judgement of God like it says in Romans 1:32: 'Itıs the Righteous Judgement of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death;' 07:06:36:00 but they- they not only go ahead and do it --that would be those people who participate in the activity--but that would also include those people who take pleasure or promote or support such people, itıs pretty simple. And God doesnıt change and thereıs no plebiscite with God, you know plebiscite? Thereıs no vote -plebiscite-- INTERVIEWER OS: yaa, OK PHELPS WOMAN: -Thereıs no vote in this matter, God doesnıt change, He says, 07:07:36:00 ŒI am the Lord. I change not.ı The Judgement of God is the same from age to age, just becuz fags come bustinı out of the closet every now and again it dunt change anything. And whether you can get every person, every human being who sucks air to go along with it, it dunt change it. INTERVIEWER (OS): what would you say to those who say that God is a Loving God and a Forgiving God? PHELPS WOMAN: He is a Loving God and a Forgiving God --to those who repent and return to serving Him, He is a Loving God and a Forgiving God but the Wrath and Judgment of God that is spelled out in scripture my goodness! All you need to do is read the last two or three chapters of Deuteronomy where He says to Moses that "You go and tell the children of Israel that after you die theyıre gonna start serving other gods and these are the things Iım gonna do to `em" and he spells it out -the Wrath of God -you can say that about Him being a Loving God but if you know the scriptures if you have -if you -if you even did something as simple as get a computer program called quickverse and you put in such words as mercy love compassion any such words that are words that talk about those attributes of God, you will find that they are there about a third as often as those words that have to do with His Jealousy, His Wrath, His Vengeance, uh His Judgment and so on. 07:08:36:00 Itıs no question, God is Loving and Forgiving to His Own. And thatıs all. Otherwise you- the Wrath of God is spelled out in no uncertain terms and - -did you ever read Genesis 19 do you even know about Sodom and Gomorrah? Do you think somethingıs changed between then and now? From Genesis, the first chapter of the Bible, to the last chapter of the Bible, this issue is all one way, it's not even aclose question. Jude -the second second to the last book of the bible, Jude says, -like --Jude is a very short book, itıs one chapter so you can find this real easily because I donıt remember which verse it is, but it says that those that like those like Sodom and Gomorrah going after strange flesh, that they- they incur or whatever the Wrath of God, 07:09:36:00 it's a good verse and I should know it and I just don't recall it you know as I should right now, but you can find it. (Through interview she holds signs that read: Flee the wrath to come Lk 3:7; and ŒSave the Gerbilsı with a man bent over, a gerbil) 07:09:53:00 PIERCED-LIP GERMAN (bystander): I donıt know man, I think its too much, you canıt say anything like that. Did you know that those pink signs were used in the Third Reich for gays who were in concentration camps yeah and I donıt think they should allow anything like that, I mean they they should have the right to say what they think. But Iım from Germany. Iım German so I feel kinda, I donıt know, feel like itıs not what theyıre supposed to be doing. HEAVY-ACCENT GIRL: Yeah... stupid, yeah, (laughs, shrugs). MAN (OS then pan): Not very good singers either. 07:11:09:00 CANDACE GINGRICH: Ok, well um this is the Human Rights Campaign, itıs the first time that weıve ever attempted a national convention and campaign training and so what weıve done here in Chicago is brought together this weekend activists who want to make a difference on campaigns and experts in the field, um who are gonna share with us their knowledge and skills um in everything in fundraising to developing a message, to how to get out the votes out on election day. For too long I believe our community has been disengaged, um thereıs a belief that nobody that was a politician cared, that it wouldnıt make a difference so why bother? Um people were realizing that this campaign year and the people we elect are gonna determine the direction this country goes into for the next millennium. and itıs in our best interest to take the country out of the scary peoplesı hands, out of the Pat Buchanan's, out of the Christian Coalition hands, um, and get our country back on the track of what it was founded on, you know fairness, equal opportunity for all people. 07:12:09:00 INTERVIEWER (OS): Can you introduce yourself, how you got involved? CANDACE GINGRICH: Sure, my name is Candace Gingrich and um currently Iım spokesperson for HRC's voter mobilization project, and I got involved after the election in Œ94, couple of different reasons, one because it scared me, um I saw the people I considered my champions werenıt in control anymore and um couldnıt take their support and their being successful for granted anymore, and also since my brother became Speaker of the House, I was asked in an interview whether or not I was gay and had no reason to lie. I was not ashamed of who I was so I came out and luckily that led to Elizabeth Birch approaching me and asking me if Iıd work with HRC and I did. 07:13:09:00 And I couldn't be happier to be an engaged, involved active person. 07:13:15:00 CANDACE GINGRICH (in new shot): Š.accommodating people and the human rights campaign does (have) a PAC and we do work on and contribute to peopleıs campaigns, but what weıre doing this weekend specifically is giving people from all across the country the skills that they can use in their own communities to walk into a campaign office and make a difference whether itıs a city council member or whether itıs a presidential race. INTERVIEWER (OS): What kind of issues are you hoping will make a difference that you hope that they spread out? GINCRICH: UIm well certainly for me anyhow one of the main criteria is that they treat gays and lesbian Americans and believe that we should have the full rights and responsibilities as non-gay people. Um in our country today weıre second class citizens, in 41 states you can be fired simply for being gay, you can be denied a mortgage, be denied a loan, and most people in our country think that's wrong, and itıs a matter of mobilizing people to take a personal part in making sure that that gets changed. 07:14:31:00 ELIZABETH BIRCH (at podium): Itıs my pleasure to introduce a hero, what man- what many of you may not know, is that in this, one of the most toxic congresses in memory, at this moment, at the beginning of this convention, the Human Rights Coalition with help of our coalition partners and heroes like Carol Mosely Braun, we have defeated every anti- gay and every anti-gay initiative this (congress? CLAP ROAR)Š. Senseless gay-baiting ploy which is the Defense of Marriage Act we went to this Senator for strategy, so weıre gonna battle that thing to the end. Let me tell you one more thing that is a little known fact in our community, the most reliable voting record, the most heroic voting record among one constituency group in the congress is the Black Democratic Congressional Caucus...(ROAR)...it doesnıt even bear saying but just for the record this Senator our hero has a hundred percent voting record and for her heroic leadership on this and many many issues near and dear to our hearts, um Senator Mosely Braun, I'd like to present you with HRCıs civil rights awardŠ (ROAR) (both still as podium) 07:16:49:00 CAROL MOSELY BRAUN (OS): What a wonderful (birthday) I wish my son Matthew was here, I shoulda brought him with I donıt know why I didnıt.. 07:17:17:00 CAROL MOSELY BRAUN (at podium): ...next time too thatıs right..on a serious note and I -I have I have scripted remarks, my staff is not gonna be surprised by this. Iım not gonna use my speech, I you know-I thought about it this afternoon as I was getting ready to start my evening events uh get around and I thought what did I really want to communicate, what did I really want to say? And it occurred to me that probably the most important point in the struggle that we all face together is that it really is essentially a struggle to define what liberty means in our time. You know in life when you have to fight for something when you have to struggle for something, that sometimes makes it just that much more precious, just that much more dear to you. 07:18:17:00 And as an African American woman, having lived through the struggle for civil rights and for equal rights, and to become part of this American dream, to make the constitution and the Declaration of Independence which Martin Luther King at one time called the Declaration of Intent- to make those things real, was a struggle which my parents fought, and they fought and they marched and they the filed lawsuits and they went through the same kinda thing weıre going through now on these issues. In order to achieve the fundamentals of human dignity in the context of this democracy. And so because I grew up watching that struggle, this struggle for human rights, for people whose sexual orientation Pat 07:19:17:00 Buchanan may not understand (LAUGH ROAR) but this struggle for human rights and for human dignity is just that also, it is a struggle to make the Declaration of Independence not just a Declaration of Intent but a Declaration of what the American character really is about, a Declaration that defines liberty as being of the people and for the people and by the people, and that the people in this great country have the opportunity to be who and what they are, to live in freedom, to enjoy liberty, to enjoy civil rights and equal protection of the law. It's just that simple. 07:20:17:00 (ROAR) BRAUN (OS): ...and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act does not make any sense to me either! (ROAR) (OS).. you will help to move the agenda forward and to enlighten our people and speak the truth to them that-- (OS)..for reaching outside of yourselves to make the case for liberty for justice for equal rights under the law, you are carrying a banner and you are fighting a struggle and fighting the fight for an awful lot of people... 07:21:17:00 fear can do one of two things it can irritate or energize thatıs what youıve done and in giving of yourselves giving up yourselves on behalf of this cause which is essentially a cause for justice is essentially a cause for equality under the law in so doing you have distinguished yourselves as true patriots in the classical sense of the word because a patriot is a person who gives of themselves to make their country live up to that countryıs ideals, and if the Declaration of Independence, if our preamble to our constitution are to have meaning for all the people in these times‹ 07:22:17:00 (ROAR).... 07:23:00:00 BRAUN (on camera interview): Šum because its important to be here um to to celebrate this struggle to to to let people know that theyıre not alone and that that there are voices in the United States Senate and in the United States Congress uh for making our Declaration of Independence a reality and not just a Declaration of Intent. 07:23:25:00 ALEXANDER ROBINSON: (on camera interview): Hi Iım Alexander Robinson, Iım from Washington D.C., uh Iım one of the presenters this weekend Iım gonna talk about framing the issues and how to make our issues winning issues. Iım sorta a political activist and junkie. I uh am a lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union and I lobby on gay and lesbian rights and AIDS issues. Iım pretty active in the community and Iım just here to make sure that everyoneıs energized and out and voting this year this this election year because itıs a very serious election for us, and I think a whole lotıs at stake and we need to be ready to defeat those who uh who arenıt supporting our issues, and vote in good candidates like the ones we heard from today. 07:24:21:00 JAMES C. PEMBROKE, JR: (at desk) My name is James C. Pembroke Jr., and I represent the claim of James King and the lawsuit of James King vs. state board of elections, et al. INTERVIEWER: (off screen) Umm, could you concisely describe Uh, the lawsuit and umm the result of the state. JCP, JR: Sure. Umm, the lawsuit was brought by James King back 19, uh February of ı95 against the state board elections for racially gerrymandering uh, the fourth congressional district. Umm, and after a trial in December of 1995 a court rendered opinion that ruled against Mr. King. Umm, essentially the court said that umm, even though the 07:25:21:00 district is a race-based classification, it still will stand because it meets umm the courtıs guidelines for being narrowly tailored under the constitution. And at this point uh, Mr. King has taken uh an appeal to the Supreme Court and that was filed in July of this year. 07:25:30:00 INTERVIEWER: Šget to beŠ GibberishŠ. GibberishŠ JCP, JR: Well, Š During the trial Mr. King expressed ummŠ a couple reasons, well I think mainly one reason why the district had to be re- drawn. And that is because itıs simply morally offensive to those of us who know better umm, in regard to umm, how the government should be acting. Umm, essentially what we have is the government saying, "well, doing things on the basis of race is okay," and umm, when you do that, I think youıre telling people the wrong thing, youıre giving the wrong message because the government does set an example. So thatıs mainly, thatıs the precise reason why Mr. King brought the suit. 07:26:30:00 INTERVIEWER: It wasnıt ummŠ Did it have, did it have less to do with umm, did it, it had nothing to do with not wanting certain people to be, to be uh, to be represented. I mean not Latinos, but I mean like Gutierres or anything like that, that had anything to do with, you know deciding upon who should be the representative, just wanting to define the community differently? Thatıs something we talked about on the phone a little bitŠ JCP, JR: UmmŠ(pause) INTERVIEWER: It's some... JCP, JR: Right, well, sure. (Pause) When you, when you draw districts like this, what you end up doing is breaking up communities. Because if youıre, cause, (pause), in Chicago, communities are not necessarily drawn or exist on the basis of race alone. So, if youıre going to be drawing districts on the basis of race, youıre going to end up with splitting those people who form a community, umm, and 07:27:30:00 thatıs not right either, umm but, technically, I mean, (pause) Iım not sure if itıs, umm, a technical point or not, but Mr. King, yaı know, his main, uh, his main umm, complaint about the district was thatıs itıs just morally offensive, umm, he had standing because he lived in the district, umm but itıs not as if it were a politically motivated suit. Umm, he has nothing against Congressman Guteirres, and if once the districtıs redrawn, Gutierres wins, thatıs fine, I mean, more power to him actually. Umm, but it turns out that we canıt be sending the wrong message. And thatıs what this district does. INTERVIEWER: Umm, (Can we mix up the shots a bit?) CAMERA PERSON: Yeah. INTERVIEWER: UhŠ(pause) 07:28:30:00 JCP, JR: Mınot sure, umm, one of the, one of the bad, one of the bad things about this district is it breaks up communities, umm, what else does it do? INTERVIEWER: Well, Iım a Iım a just concerned about umm, if a, if, if, if, itıs about minorities being represented, whether, whether itıs ethnic or racial or political, or political minorities being represented umm, you're saying itıs a bad message, umm, itıs like uh, cause the constitution kinda guarantees the protection of, the protectŠ guarantees for the protection of the losers in a, in a, in a, in a, race with minorities, no matter what they are right? You areŠ. JCP, JR: (laughs) Well Iım not so sure we can say that it guarantees the rights of the losers, it guarantees right of minor, minorities under the law. So, (pause) because youıre a loser, it doesnıt necessarily make you a minority, and because youıre a minority, doesnıt necessarily make you a loser. INTERVIEWER: I ,I mean loser in a, you know, the electionŠ JCP, JR: Oh, well youıre right, meaning yeah, not having enough number. Okay, fine, sure. (pause) Umm, alright 07:29:30:00 So whatıs the question again? INTERVIEWER: Umm, I guess if that minorities, ethnic or otherwise, uh, feel theyıre being restricted, in their access to government, if youıre not being represented properly, in some way, umm, uh, is it, do you, do you and your client feel that itıs the governmentıs job to help them be properly represented then? JCP, JR: Okay. The primacy of your question is thatŠ that some, that minorities donıt feel like theyıre adequately being represented by the government, okay. Letıs, letıs start out with a general proposition. I donıt think anybody feels like theyıre being adequately being represented by their government, whether white, black, or Hispanic, whatever. Okay. Umm, now, if you go to minority groupsŠ theyŠ for whateverŠuh, they because ofŠ umm, discrimination, past discrimination, feel that theyıre not being adequately represented. Umm, nowŠ 07:30:30:00 that may or may not be true. And what we have to look at, at least in the court of law, is whether or not thereıs been proven past discrimination. Now actually, that was the state of the law before 1982. After 1982 the Voter Rights Act was changed to say that wherever the population is sufficiently numerous, and geographically compact, and that thereıs white racial block voting to prevent the minoritiesı candidate of choice of being elected, and thereıs cohesiveness among the minorities, then they are entitled to a district. Thatıs the law. Thatıs the Voting Rights Act. That makes a lot of sense. Okay. Now, what youıll note is that part of Voting Rights Act says, geographically numerous, well, geographically compact and numerous. Now compactness is the problem here. OkayŠ 07:31:30:00 Mr. King is not saying thatŠa district shouldn't be drawn whether the minority is compact, where you donıt have to break up communitiesŠ where you donıt have to draw crazy linesŠ and where you donıt have to let everybody know that weıre going out of our way to provide a racial remedy. SoŠ in so far as the Voting Rights Act does provide a remedy for minority groups, and that you interpret compactness to mean compactness, I believe that that is a fair remedy forŠ umm minority groups who feel, who, who can prove that, in a court of law, that theyıre, yı know, that theyıre entitled to have the district drawn up on their behalf. INTERVIEWER: You donıt feel that uh this district meets that criteria? JCP, JR: No. Not at all. This, this the Fourth 07:32:30:00 Congressional District does not meet the criteria of the Voting Rights Act properly interpreted under the Equal Protection Clause. INTERVIEWER: That was as concise as you can get right there. JCP, JR: ŠIs feeding the fire, of racismŠnowŠ(pause) we would never say that racism is dead. And so long as there are certain groups, who think that, or because of their failures and weaknessesŠalways need a scapegoat, racism will always persist. But all these are people doing and they donıt realize is just feeding the fire, theyıre making it worse. And the only way to, to uh make the situation better is to do what we can to eliminate racial, qualificaŠracial qualifications, racial umm, disŠdistinctions, within, with eh, (stutter), in the very least, in the government. And thatıs what this about because this is government action. UmmŠ INTERVIEWER: Thatıs something that IŠ.. INTERVIEWER: GibberishŠ. 07:33:30:00 JCP, JR: Well, if IŠIŠIf I gotŠIıd like to make a comment about your, you, you, youıve added specter of proportional representation as, umm, I guess as an alternative to drawing districts on the basis of race. And certainly Lonnie Guenire is a big proponent of that. Umm, yet, firstŠthat presumes that people want to elect the same type person they are to government. They may not necessarily want to do that. If it's... if times are tough, they want a, they want somebody whoıs strong, who may be different from them. And theyıre entitled to elect somebody whoıs different from them. And if you enact proportional representation in some way, youŒre forcing people to elect people who are the same as they are. Okay. Number two, if you get into proportional representation, youıre going to have all sorts of crazy groups getting elected. 07:34:30:00 Okay. And that, in this country is not necessarily a good thing. And I think essentially youıd have an exacerbation of the racism problem, and prejudice. Because not only are you gonna get, you know, minorities their own representatives, but youıre going to get the white racist their own representatives, and that is the last thing that we need. INTERVIEWER: In yourŠ 07:35:00:00 INTERVIEWER: My name is Maria Valdez. MARIA VALDEZ: (at desk) Laughs. My name is Maria Valdez. Iım a staff attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in Chicago. INTERVIEWER: Thanks. Umm, uh, I guess from what Iıve been reading and the research Iıve done, it seems like umm, MALÖMALDEF? MV: Yes. INTERVIEWER: That's a good way to put it? Has fought to increase Latino majority wards in the city? In the past and uh, has supported the boundaries of the current court 4th congressional district? MV: Yes, we supported the boundaries, and we litigated the boundaries in court. INTERVIEWER: Umm, do you feel that issues that are uh, important to Latinos have been umm, ignored in the past before re-mapping? MV: The issues important to Latinos, unfortunately have only been important to Latinos, and have been ignored by the white majority that's in power whether that's in the city, the county, the state, or the federal government. So it falls upon organizations like MALDEF, 07:36:00:00 which ah, represents Latino interests almost exclusively to advocate and litigate for those interests that are important to the Latino community. INTERVIEWER: Umm, what would you say were and continue to be some of those issues? MV: Well, some of the more important issues, in particular in the city of Chicago are issues relating to education. Uh, BI-lingual education; one of the most umm, the, the biggest problem facing Latino students right now is the issue of over-crowding. Because of the high population, the dense population in the Latino areas, the current schools just can't, uh, lemme, uh, start over, start over again. I know on videotape we can do this. Letıs go over okay INTERVIEWER: Whatever the issues were and are? MV: Right. One of the more important issues facing the Latino community in Chicago is the issue of education. Uh, in the city of Chicago, they have had a number of schools 07:37:00:00 that havenıt been built in the past twenty years, so in other words, the total building had been completed twenty years ago. There been very little new construction, even though the Latino community has grown extensively in the city of Chicago. So there's an issue of over crowding. You have umm, students being taught in hallways, in closets, in basements, in rat infested mobile units; that's an issue that's been going on for the past ten years and has not been alleviated. By either the past school board, or the current school board. That's a number one issue for the Latino community. The second issue has to do with immigration issues. Uh, which is, uh, just generally a federal matter. And immigration is important to both Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. It's important to Puerto Ricans because Puerto Ricans suffer from discrimination based on, on, uh, immigration status, even though they are citizens by birth. Unfortunately, the INS can't tell a Puerto Rican versus a Mexican 07:38:00:00 when they look at somebody, they're both dark skinned, speak Spanish, dress a certain way, according to the INS, so they are subject to discrimination. INTERVIEWER: Even though they... SOUND OPERATOR: Maria, sorry, could you adjust your microphone? MV: (adjusts lavaliere microphone) SOUND OPERATOR: Gibberish. microphone. INTERVIEWER: It's just rubbing really bad? MV: How's that? SOUND OPERATOR: That's better. Watch her hands movements, that's what... MV: Okay INTERVIEWER: Did I hear it slip? Do you want to get that again or are we okay? SOUND OPERATOR: Umm, it sounds a little muffled, I'm not sure maybe we need to check audio and see... INTERVIEWER: So, umm, I think we need to, so inside is fine? MV: Right. INTERVIEWER: Uh, imma, immigration... MV: Immigration... INTERVIEWER: An issue of a... MV: Okay. Immigration is also an important issue that faces Latinos in Chicago. It faces both Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. It faces both Mexicans and Puerto Ricans because Puerto Ricans, although citizens by birth, are of dark skin and speak Spanish, and according to the immigration service, look as though they're undocumented. So they are also subject to discriminatory practices because of immigration status. So that is an important issue to the Latino community as a whole here in Chicago. And of course, the issue of political representation has always been important to Latinos. Nationwide, and in particular in the city of Chicago. INTERVIEWER: Are, are, those issues being better 07:39:00:00 addressed now? Uh, have you seen a, a change in, in ah, things since uh, since there has been uh, re-mapping? In terms of ...It seems, I guess mainly since I mean this seems to be mainly concerned with the congressional, uh, the congressional re-mapping of, but it can be related to also to uh, uh, ward mapping in the city MV: Well historically, the issues that are important to Latinos have been addressed since the passage of The Voting Rights Act. And that was back in 1964. Latinos were covered under The Voting Rights Act in the mid seventies, so we had literally just twenty years of coverage, where Latinos have been able to go to court to enforce their voting rights. Before that they were disenfranchised, it was very difficult to get their needs addressed. MALDEF has been operating for the past twenty years, has used the Voting Rights Act as an important vehicle for political representation. Weave gone into court; weıve had districts created, as a result of the creation of minority/majority districts. We have seen an increase in Latino representation, 07:40:00:00 at the city, county, state levels, federal levels, and that of course has trickled down to have an effective representation for the Latino community. INTERVIEWER: Umm, I donıt know if this really your keep going, I don't... gibberish. TIME CODE BREAK 0:06:15:08 INTERVIEWER: to congress MV: (Whispers) Okay. Well, in particular, having a Latino congressman from the mid-west has allowed the Latino concerns with respect to immigration, welfare reform which unfortunately today President Clinton is signing into law, the Welfare Reform Bill, which would impact not only undocumented immigrants, but lawful permanent residents. People who come from other countries into the United States, legally, who have lived here for many years, legally, who have paid taxes for many years into the system, those people will be restricted in terms of what kind of welfare they would be entitled to, including Social Security benefits. So those two issues are just extremely important to the Latino community. 07:41:00:00 And although we haven't been able to prevail in congress, at least the Latino community, through the representation of congressman Gutierres of the 4th congressional district, has had a voice in congress. And that's all that we are entitled to, is a voice to have our concerns addressed at the federal level. Even though it may not work, and it didnıt work in particular with respect to the Welfare Reform Bill. But, we had a voice. INTERVIEWER: umm, Congressman Gutierres was one of the few... TIME CODE BREAK INTERVIEWER: Gibberish... MV: I understand what you're saying, I mean, the issue of Redistricting is political participation. And although traditionally the Democratic Party had been the party, as opposed to the Republican Party to address the needs of minority groups. Minority groups found themselves out of the process. They had to rely on the white democrats to address their concerns and historically the white democrats were not doing it enough. They might give a (?) or two to the minority concerns, 07:42:00:00 but they weren't addressing the minority concerns enough. So this issue of creating majority/minority districts, is all from political empowerment of that group. There are terms that are used called, Political Apartheid, Balkanization, creating these districts. Apartheid, you must remember, was a system in South Africa, that was served to dis-empower a minority group. Creating majority/minority districts, historically, the past twenty years, it's absolutely clear, it leads to empowerment of a minority group. Before the Voting Rights Act passed in the 1960's you had very few, either African Americans, Latinos, Asians, in congress. Right now you have less than fifty. It's not enough, but it's much better than it was thirty years ago. In, in the senate, we have one African American. Out of one hundred. There are no other minorities in the Senate. So one African American you can attribute to, the rise after the Voting Rights Act, 07:43:00:00 the rise of minority participation in the political process. And it's all due to the Voting Rights Act. Along with increase in, uh, economic status for some minorities. And along with the, the, decrease in overt racism by those that are in power. So you have those terms, you can use those terms, Balkanization, Political Apartheid, but what it really means to the community is Political Empowerment. INTERVIEWER: Do you think uh, that a time, a time will come when you don't, when majority/minority districts will no longer be necessary? Does uh, does it have to do with integration necessarily, integration of groups? Or is it more of umm, of uh shared maybe, if, if , if the issues are shared, if the interest are shared by, by large groups that can that can be dispersed? MV: I think what's important to note is that when you create a majority/minority district, it's not created out of a whim or out of just saying, "Oh, you know, maybe we should create a Latino district now." 07:44:00:00 A district is created only after a finding of past discrimination. It's a remedy of truant discriminatory practice, and that is, in aay, inadequate access to the political process. So once this country comes to terms with it's diversity, once this country no longer treats people differently on the basis of race or ethnicity, then you won't have a need for majority/minority districts. It's important to remember there are a remedial measure to pass uh, proven discrimination. We have to go to court and prove the history of discrimination, we don't just go to court and say, "We're brown, we're entitled to a district." Itıs a very, very, difficult process, and again, it's a remedial measure. INTERVIEWER: So you had to, uh prove in this case that was difficult for Latinos to get elected in Chicago? MV: Absolutely, we had to prove in this case that the Latinos in Chicago had historically not been able to elect candidates of their choice. And we did in fact prove that. 07:45:00:00 Now candidates of their choice doesn't mean a Latino candidate. It could be anybody as long as the community as a whole has enough political strength to elect someone that they choose. Historically in Chicago, the candidate of choice of Latinos has been a Latino candidate, and that's been proven over and over again. INTERVIEWER: Latinos generally then will vote for Latinos. MV: When given a choice between two candidates, a Latino candidate and a white candidate, the Latino community will support the Latino candidate by a majority. INTERVIEWER: Umm, there, there, I'm sure... TIME CODE BREAK INTERVIEWER: I'm sure very much an individual basis, there are certain... MV: Certainly. There are areas that affect everybody's life that different ethnic groups can agree on. This issue of crime, for instance: that's an issue that all ethnic groups can say needs to be addressed. But there are very important issues that touch the lives of, of the minority groups that it seems as though the majority whites donıt understand, 07:46:00:00 maybe because they've not lived it, or maybe because they doesn't want to believe that racism exists anymore. The Supreme Court certainly doesnıt want to believe that racism exists anymore. But these are issues that, such as the language issue, that was raised earlier. We discussed English as the official language. Most people would say, "That is a great idea." And they can't understand why the, the Latino community would be against English as the official language of the United States. Immigration is another issue, which we will diverge upon. Even though a person of German decent may have only been second generation and had their grandfather or great grandfather come to this country, they still don't understand the need for fair immigration policies. It seems as though, even though we might have experienced similar issues, because of the continued racist attitudes toward people of color, they kind of, I think white ethnics forget that they might have been discriminated upon and they 07:47:00:00 but, they remember that it was easier for them to come here, and easier for them to make a living. And they think that it should be as easy for people of color. So there are issues that we can agree upon. The very court issues that effect the lives of the minorities. INTERVIEWER: Those, those are issues that umm, but, but, it's but... 07:48:00:00 WOMAN ABOLISH TYRANNY LAWYER (interview): Saw your wig on the street the other day Oh, you did. INTERVIEWER: It stands out. WOMAN: They don't have them for sale here I don't know why. INTERVIEWER: Would, you tell us about your sign? WOMAN: Yes, ummm, I'm for the abolishment of lawyer tyranny. I would like to see lawyers out of the legislative and executive branches of government, because it's a conflict of interest you know, they have judiciary branch and that's where they belong. They take an oath to be officers of the court, they take an oath to the legal system. Once they get in congress they start passing laws that benefit themselves and their industries. Congress is one huge lawyer lobby, you know, they don't prosecute each other for crimes. The average person on the street has lawyer crimes committed against them there's nothing they can do. They go to the feds or they go to the uhh, to the uh, ya' know, the law enforcers they're also controlled by lawyers, because lawyers run everything in the executive and legislative branches of governments... nationally and locally. So it's it's kinda of, uh....difficult, but we can do it because there's only a million of them, 07:49:00:00 add their support system maybe there's 20 million of them, but there's 240 million of the rest of us getting eaten alive. INTERVIEWER: I saw you have a press badge on. Are you working for someone here? WOMAN: No, I'm working for myself. I have a newsletter it's called, "Lawyers Rule," and that's why I have a press badge on. INTERVIEWER: Do you think democrates or republicans are worse offenders? WOMAN: No, I think it's not a party thing, it's a constitutional issue it's seperation of powers. It's not party wi-, I mean it's, republican party is run by lawyers just the same as the democratic party. What's the difference? INTERVIEWER: Have you had a personally bad experience with lawyers. WOMAN: Oh, absolutely they took a half a million dollars on a court order overnight. The court order was in a summons, we weren't even before the judge. The money was gone. INTERVIEWER: How did they do that? WOMAN: Through an illegal court order, but you you complain about them, you complain about the crimes and uh, alls they do is say, "well yeah, you know," even the Feds said, here in Chicago, said yeah crimes were committed and everybody who touched this case should go to jail. 07:50:00:00 These are crimes, but lawyers don't prosecute lawyers. So what are they doing running all 3 branches of government? Where's the seperation of powers? This is why so many people are getting burned by lawyers and nobody knows what to do. Oh, go to the Bar Association, ya' know, heeey what a good idea. Go to the Cover Up Organization for lawyer criminality thank you very much. You know everybody gets burnt they don't know what to do. So there's a lot of rage out there, but people don't know what to do and thanks to John Doe who was a lawyer casuality, we, we fought them with the rest of the money we had. Ah, and what they did then is put John Doe in jail....for a threatening telephone call. He served. He was in jail for at least over a year and then he dissappeared from there and I don't know where he is now, but John Doe is, he devoted his life to this cause and since he's not here now I'm carrying on. INTERVIEWER: Thanks for talking to us-WOMAN: I'm Jane Doe, thank you 07:51:00:00 CASHIER WOMAN (convention- people buying souvenirs - hard to understand what people are saying). : Out of twenty. CASHIER MAN: Next person please....cash. CASHIER WOMAN: Reciept is in the bag....42 cents.....thank you ......WOMAN CUSTOMER: cash I think. CASHIER WOMAN: 40...5....48....is 94. 07:52:42:00 WOMAN ON STREET: How's it going here in Chicago. WOMAN: Uh, well, I think it's been a pretty good uh, uh, convention. Uh, I, I've enjoyed, uh, hearing about about real issues. People talk about things that matter and so much of the time the stuff I see on TV that, I don't know, its just like one big infommercial. And uh, I was really suprised this close to election to find people really talking about issues instead of uh, blasting uh, one party or another. And uh, this is my 75th anniversary pin uh, I'm wearing this dress because it's a suffrage dress and uh,...uh... Monday was the 76th anniversary of women's right to vote and the country is 200 years old so, hee, 75 years isn't all of it, but we've go that much, heh. I think women are going to make a difference. INTERVIEWER: Well, thanks what did you think of the First Lady's speech. WOMAN: Last I ah...... 07:53:36:00 MAN ( selling T-shirts):....Express in Washington D.C. and all of our merchandise is licensed by the Democratic National Committee and carries the Democratic National Committee donkey and win in 96' logo. INTERVIEWER: And what else is on it. MAN: Uh, these are pro-choice and politically correct T-shirts designed by our friend Deb. We also have college democrats T-shirts. We have ties from the Italian American Democratic Leadership Council, uh, and then the rest of the merchandise is pretty much generic Democratic National Committee. We have uh, the new donkey, which was introduced in 1996. Uh, this is a licensed and trade marked donkey, as opposed to many of the other the many imitation donkeys that have been developed over the years. The Democratic National Committee decided to actually to license and trademark their new donkey, which is a more modern and updated version of the older donkey. INTERVIEWER: It looks like the donkey is kicking up his heels. Is that the biggest difference? MAN: I think he is kicking his heels up or kicking the elephant out of the way. 07:54:36:00 Out with the old and in with the new. INTERVIEWER: Can you tell me about the PC T-shirts more? We heard it was the only one here at the convention. MAN: Umm, most of the merchandise at the convention, this year, is generic convention merchandise. Uh, there is very little 00:19:00:00 uh, constituency merchandise here. Umm, we are the only people that are carrying constituency oriented merchandise including: Adelante con Clinton/Gore, women for Clinton/Gore, Italian Americans for Clinton/Gore, Veterans for Clinton/Gore, disabled Americans for Clinton/Gore, and a host of other uh, specific constituencies including Tribal Americans, Jewish Americans, and we carry a full line of that merchandise for the particular constituency groups. Umm, we have a full blown twenty page catolog and additional flyers for each of those constituency groups. INTERVIEWER: ______ democratic party dress well. MAN: Yes, you should be dressed appropiately for the convention this evening. INTERVIEWER: Can I take a look at your catolog? MAN: Uh, sure. 07:55:37:00 MUSLIM GIRLS: Umm, my name is Lala ____. I'm from Universal School this is......Umm, we take american government class so we that it would be a good experience to come here and see the Democratic Convention. INTERVIEWER: So you're a high school student? GIRL1: Yeah, juniors. INTERVIEWER: Where is the school. GIRL1: Umm, it's in Bridgeview, the suburbs. Eh, it's a private Islamic school. And (laughs) INTERVIEWER: So how's it been here at the convention? GIRL: It's been a really interesting experience we never really got to like umm, we never got to like, meet like, we like saw the Vice President and it we like see them on tv and stuff but it's just so interesting actually seeing stuff happen listening to them umm, and seeing the people just (laughs)....INTERVIEWER: I see a lot of you are wearing women's caucus buttons, what does that mean? 07:56:37:00 GIRL1: Oh no we were just ah, listening to the speech and we agreed with a lot of things he said and, just wearing the buttons (laughs) INTERVIEWER: Anyone else have anything to say about issues that are important to you in this election? GIRL2: Umm, I think the abortion, thing is right because I mean just say one woman gets raped, or you know, she she has a choice, and also for women liberation I think that's right, because also our teachings have uh, they try to higher the standard of woman so, to higher the standard of woman in the politics I think that's right what Clinton is doing. I don't know....GIRL3: Umm, well in Isalm the teachings always say you know that women have a very high status in Isalm and we want to see umm, you know the Presidents, President Clinton and President Gore we want to see umm, what they wanna, you know what kind of 07:57:37:00 standards they wanna put for women and on women we want to see umm, what they think about the abortion rights, we think that's important and we want to see about umm, a lot about umm, women's health, medicare, medicade, umm, we want to see what they think about it because when you look around and we really think that health is a very important issue. We think that umm, freedom of umm speech and stuff like that but umm, you know we think that it is really important that women have a say in government and a say in umm, you know, envirnomental issues, women's status, umm religious ideas and stuff and we want to see that we can get a good President that will, you know, enforce those laws and enforce those umm, ideas. INTERVIEWER: Did any of you follow the Republican Convention and do you find that your more aligned with the democratic views than the republican party's views. GIRL4: Umm, we've only been to this convention, 07:58:37:00 it's our first day and....we....I really don't....I don't have an opini- I don't I really don't have a good opinion about the differences. INTERVIEWER: Anyone else? Democrat VS. Republican, have a sense of their views on say women's issues? GIRL1: No, umm, just like as she said about the ah, abortion, we generally think it's like abortion is wrong, but if you know a lady was put in postion of rape or of something we think they should be able to, she has a choice, you know, because that's just something, you know, that happens, it occurs so that's the only, that, but generally yeah, we agree with most of the democratic ideas. GIRL2: Also the women's status, which is very good, because, for so man- so long women have not had a say and or nothing and now, you know, now they at least have say of something and they have some form of power, 07:59:37:00 ya' know. They are half of- more than half of the gender in the world. They finally are coming into the power, yaı know. Just how powerful they are, I mean, they are the one who create life. 008 08:00:00:00 (Black) 08:00:40:00 (United Center interior, forklift deacon.) 08:01:00:00 (Crane moving boards) 08:02:00:00 (forklift again) 08:03:20:00 (Empty arena) 08:03:20:00 (Reporter) 08:04:00:00 " 08:05:00:00 " 08:06:00:00 " 08:07:00:00 " 08:07:46:00 (Blueprints of stage) 08:08:00:00 " 08:08:19:00 (DNC paraphernalia painting) 08:09:00:00 " 08:10:00:00 (Workers painting paraphernalia) 08:10:54:00 (Inside United Center con.) 08:11:00:00 " 08:12:00:00 " 08:12:17:00 (Outside tent con.) 08:13:00:00 " 08:13:31:00 (Hanging of Stage.) 08:14:00:00 " 08:14:34:00 (Inside Con.) 08:15:00:00 " 08:16:00:00 " 08:16:06:00 (Welcome sign behind scaffold) 08:16:24:00 (Inside UC prep con.) 08:17:00:00 " 08:17:50:00 (Ceiling work inside boardroom) 08:18:00:00 (Prep inside UC cont.) 08:18:49:00 (Outside prep cont.) 08:19:00:00 " 08:19:02:00 (Black) 08:19:06:00 (Anarchists sitting by bus) 08:20:00:00 " 08:21:00:00 CARLOS (standing on bus) Attention please. My name is Carlos Cortex, longstanding member of the I.W.W., the Industrial Workers of the World (CHEERS). And I shall be your guide for the afternoon. If you look out to your left there, at the walls there, this is the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and a mural depictingthe poet one Antonio (Corivear?), a nationalist poet and a hero of the Puerto Rican Liberation Movement. Ah, I'll ask the bus driver to pull up a little so you can get a glance at the west wall. We will now proceed to a mural depicting Pedro Avelas Panquos, 08:22:00:00 a hero of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Movement. (Chatter of People on bus) CARLOS: (stands up) You can look back over your shoulders to your left, on the Southeast corner 08:23:00:00 is a mural dedicated to Dr., ah, Pedro Avelas Panquos, a hero of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Movement. He is depicted with 2 of his comrades as crucified Christ-like. He spent many years in an Atlanta prison, where eventually, he died. And he is to the Puerto Rican people what George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are to the Americans, what Poncho Via and Emilio Sepata are to the Mexican peopleŠ. There are many murals, both on the North Side, the South Side. Those of you who do not live in Chicago, Chicago is a very good place to visit 08:24:00:00 to visit the various murals, particularly here on the North Side, there is also the concentration in the Pilsen area which is Mexican and in the far South Side, where there are many Black murals, many with, ah, a labor twist; especially ones done by Ben Walker. Okay, now we're go to the Court House Square, ah, New Berry Square. (sits down, anarchists mumble) 0825:00:00 (Anarchists mumble) 08:25:08:00 CARLOS: (standing) and ah, Division, I mean uh, Milwaukee, Division, and Ashland were being in Nelson Algren territory. In fact, this corner, intersection where we're making the turn towards is Clark Street is the locale of the book, The Man With the Golden Arm, featuring Frank Sinatra and, ah, Kim Novak in the movie. And, ah, part of Evergreen Street has been renamed Nelson Algren Street. ANARCHIST #1: Who's Nelson Algren? 08:26:00:00 CARLOS: Heıs one of Chicagoıs top authors. He wrote The Man With the Golden Arm Chicago, City on the Make... many other books. ANARCHIST NERD: and Walk on the Wild Side CARLOS: Yes, Walk on the Wild Side ANARCHIST #2: Carlos... CARLOS: Huh? ANARCHIST #2: Cabrini Green. ANARCHIST #3: Is that what that is? CARLOS: To your right is Cabrini Green Housing Projects. It was built, supposedly, to house low-income people but really it was done to try to gentrify the neighborhood. ANARCHIST NERD: I see a lot of bullet holes up there, on the.. where the ah, National Guard shot the . . . CARLOS: It's one of the poorer sections of the neighborhood. If you look a little further ahead, you see 08:27:00:00 other high rises, that is Carl Sandberg Village, which was supposedly built formidable and modest income people but has since become high rent ah, high rise. (Out window) (Anarchist mumble) 08:27:35:00 CARLOS: (standing) If you look back over your shoulder, to the left, on the Northeast corner is the building, the Grand Lightning Haymarket Meeting Place where the Chicago Anarchists met after the Haymarket bombing 08:28:00:00 an emergency meeting. We're going to produce, ah, proceed to the next corner where the actual bombing of the Haymarket took place. It was a meeting protesting police harassment and victimization of the striking workers. It was a peaceful meeting and as the meeting broke up, the police moved in... as the meeting was dispersing, the police moved in to break it up. At that time, some unknown person threw a bomb in which some police were killed and the ensuing battle, a number of the ah, audience had, ah had died, as well as police dying from their own crossfire. That was known as the Haymarket Tragedy. 08:29:00:00 We're going to make a right turn up at this, ah next corner. On Randolph. ANARCHIST: What corner is that? ANARCHIST NERD: This corner, thatıs Lincoln and Desplains. CARLOS: And this is Randolph and Desplaines. ANARCHIST NERD: To your left in the cement is a very small memorial to the bombing and etc. CARLOS: At this stop was a statue with a policeman with his arm raised as a memorial to the police who hadŠ CARLOS: is the original Hull House founded by Jane Adams. On the right, that's the original Hull House. It was a complex that spread over a couple of blocks. 08:30:00:00 But since the building of the University of Illinois, all that is left is a part of the original building. Jane Adams had founded this, she came from a wealthy family, but she decided there should be some sort of service for the poor immigrants, particularly the children. At that time, most of the immigrants were Eastern European Jews and Italians. Okay, we can proceedŠ.Take ah, take a left. (Sits down) BUS DRIVER: On 76th. 08:30:53:00 (Anarchist still mumbling) 08:31:00:00 (Anarchists are yet again mumbling) 08:31:38:00 CARLOS: (stands up) This is bus number 116. What you're seeing now, we're in front of the Haymarket Monument. The monument to the Haymarket martyrs, those who were executed because they were accused of having a role in the Haymarket incident, the bombing, 08:32:00:00 that their adjectation had led to the massacre as well as a number of well prominent figures in labor history, including a monument to Emma Goldman, famous anarchist of the earlier part of this century, and Lucy Parsons, Annina Speese, the widows of Parsons and Speese... You can all come out, we're supposed to have a little gathering here. (Walks off bus) 08:32:36:00 (Anarchists exiting bus) 08:33:00:00 (Anarchists around monument) 08:33:3200 CARLOS: (off camera) August Speese, Adolf Fisher, Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg, and George Engel. ANARCHIST WOMAN: Are they buried here or is this just a monument? CARLOS: Yes, theyıre buried here. 08:34:00:00 CARLOS: Grave of Murray Abrahms, a lawyer for many years and promoter of labor and anarchist causes as well as the protector of this monument. And this is the headstone of Lucy Parsons, the widow ofAlbert Parsons, who was born in Texas, and of combined African and Mexican-Indian descent. You look around to many other people in labor who very much involved in labor, and a little down that way is a monument to Emma Goldman. (Off camera, around monument) 08:35:00:00 (still around monument) 08:35:42:00 ("DOWN WITH POWER" cutaway) 08:35:47:00 ANARCHIST NERD: (standing around gravestones) The plot and they could divvy up who could be buried hereŠ. William J. Foster, was a co- founder of the I.W.W. who later became head of the Communist party of the US, um, and he's a working class leader and 08:36:00:00 tireless fighter for socialism. Um, They all have, um, great little one liner, um, descriptions. CURIOUS ANARCHIST: Are they actually buried here? ANARCHIST NERD: As far as I know. I donıt know how. Maybe verticallyŠ. They might be, they may be cremated. I donıt knowŠ(inaudible) came here on a Sunday in October thinking nobody would be here. Course it was packed because one Sunday every fall they put on reenactments. We got to meet 08:37:00:00 Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons, women dressed up as them and then they also do a good two dozen other people throughout the cemetery, a fair number of famous people out here, umŠ. itıs pretty mixed out hereŠ. CAPTIVATED ANARCHIST: What weekend was that? (mumbling) CAPTIVATED ANRACHIST #2: Who sponsors that? ANARCHIST NERD: Um, I think itıs the cemetery, but Iım not really sure. We just happened upon it. CAPTIVATED ANARCHIST #2: That sounds interesting (off camera, shot of gravestone) 08:37:20:00 (Anarchist mumble around gravestones) 08:38:00:00 (still mumbling) 08:39:00:00 (MOS, around gravestones) 08:39:06:00 CARLOS: (sitting by grave) After the execution this monument was put up. No cemetery in Chicago would take them so they came out there to Forest Park, where they built the monument and made their graves.... for the Haymarkey martyrs. Adol . . .August Speese, Louie Fisher, Albert Parsons, Louie Lingg, and, uh, George Engel. And one of them had ah, blown himself apart while in jail. He managed to make his own dynamite. He wanted to chose ah, cheat the executioner. 08:40:00:00 And they were buried out here and this monument was built up. And the plaque that you see on the backside here is the speech where Governor ah, John Peter Atrguild had pardoned those who were sentenced. 5 were sentenced to death by hanging, others were given long jail terms, but he pardoned them, and they survived. By doing that, he committed political suicide because at that time, he was governor of the state of IL, and one of the ah, one of the more, from our standpoint, respectable politicians, he said these guys didn't commit any crime. In fact, the charges were trumped up 08:41:00:00 against them. None of them were even at the site of the riot, which was really was a police riot. They were all someplace else. ANARCHIST #4: (off camera) Why were they chosen, as the fall . . . CARLOS: Because it was determined their agitation had brought about this rally and the subsequent riot. INTEVIEWER: (off camera) This whole area here seems to be ah, um, kind of activist row. CARLOS: Yeah, it is. Actually this was an old German and German- Jewish cemetery years ago. It was for really (CUTS OFF) 08:41:45:00 (Anarchists walking around cemetery) 08:42:00:00 08:42:51:00 (1968 Con. Police marching, beating people) 08:43:00:00 " 08:43:14:00 (Red Cross Medics helping people, Tear gas) 08:44:00:00 (More tear gas thrown by police, people react) 08:45:00:00 " 08:45:28:00 (Women in car trying to get through police blockade) 08:46:00:00 " 08:47:00:00 " 08:48:00:00 " 08:49:00:00 " 08:49:05:00 (Police beatings on Michigan Ave.) 08:50:00:00 " 08:51:00:00 " 08:51:10:00 (Inside Con. 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