WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640 align:middle line:84% I've been working with this Jewish organization called 00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:07.980 align:middle line:84% Never Again Is Now trying to draw comparisons 00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:10.290 align:middle line:84% to the Holocaust and the violence that's 00:00:10.290 --> 00:00:13.740 align:middle line:84% happening in detention centers and concentration camps. 00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:15.870 align:middle line:84% And so I've been going to a lot of protests 00:00:15.870 --> 00:00:17.820 align:middle line:90% to shut down ICE buildings. 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:21.270 align:middle line:84% And so this is one that's in conversation with that work. 00:00:21.270 --> 00:00:23.310 align:middle line:84% Because you know how at a demonstration, 00:00:23.310 --> 00:00:25.270 align:middle line:84% you chant a thing over and over again, 00:00:25.270 --> 00:00:27.030 align:middle line:84% and then it disappears in your head 00:00:27.030 --> 00:00:28.530 align:middle line:84% and becomes multiple other phrases? 00:00:28.530 --> 00:00:31.050 align:middle line:84% So this is called "Never Again Is Now." 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:32.159 align:middle line:90% And it's in five bits. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.600 align:middle line:84% And in between each one, can y'all just clap when I show 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.145 align:middle line:90% that? 00:00:37.145 --> 00:00:37.540 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:37.540 --> 00:00:39.332 align:middle line:84% We can try it when I lift my hand on three. 00:00:39.332 --> 00:00:40.050 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:40.710 align:middle line:90% Cool. 00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:42.000 align:middle line:90% Want to try it one more time? 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:42.500 align:middle line:90% Great. 00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:44.940 align:middle line:90% 00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:48.360 align:middle line:84% "Never again is now is never again is never is now. 00:00:48.360 --> 00:00:51.780 align:middle line:84% And again is never is now again is never again is now. 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:53.610 align:middle line:90% And now again is never again. 00:00:53.610 --> 00:00:55.350 align:middle line:90% Again is again is now. 00:00:55.350 --> 00:00:59.120 align:middle line:84% And now is never again is never and then is never is now." 00:00:59.120 --> 00:00:59.880 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:00.750 align:middle line:90% "Never blood work. 00:01:00.750 --> 00:01:01.620 align:middle line:90% Never registry. 00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:02.970 align:middle line:90% Never passport. 00:01:02.970 --> 00:01:04.709 align:middle line:84% Never agree to let them search your home. 00:01:04.709 --> 00:01:05.970 align:middle line:90% Never go out at night alone. 00:01:05.970 --> 00:01:08.760 align:middle line:84% Never record them so they can see your phone recording. 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.740 align:middle line:84% Never sign anything without reading first. 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:12.000 align:middle line:90% Never sign anything. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.890 align:middle line:84% Never agree to speak, even if all they 00:01:13.890 --> 00:01:16.050 align:middle line:84% feed you is meats that offend your God. 00:01:16.050 --> 00:01:17.850 align:middle line:84% Never ask to use the bathroom or have 00:01:17.850 --> 00:01:19.590 align:middle line:90% a body that requires a song. 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:21.060 align:middle line:90% Never give them a reason. 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:23.160 align:middle line:84% Never believe reason has any place here. 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:25.740 align:middle line:84% Never attend the demonstration with your face exposed. 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:26.730 align:middle line:90% Never wear a mask. 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:28.770 align:middle line:84% Never sign your name or trust your neighbor 00:01:28.770 --> 00:01:30.690 align:middle line:90% or believe it's going to be OK. 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:33.990 align:middle line:84% At least the worst is behind us, they sang on their way 00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:35.160 align:middle line:90% to the camps. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:37.020 align:middle line:84% Never let your suffering isolate you 00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:38.550 align:middle line:90% from the suffering of strangers. 00:01:38.550 --> 00:01:41.010 align:middle line:84% Never believe history is a finished thing, 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:43.530 align:middle line:84% that it doesn't live here in your very breathing. 00:01:43.530 --> 00:01:44.610 align:middle line:90% Everything's fine. 00:01:44.610 --> 00:01:46.350 align:middle line:90% Everything's business as usual. 00:01:46.350 --> 00:01:48.510 align:middle line:90% Never believe a word they say." 00:01:48.510 --> 00:01:49.590 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:01:49.590 --> 00:01:53.490 align:middle line:84% "Again, laws are passed following an invented tragedy. 00:01:53.490 --> 00:01:56.160 align:middle line:84% Again, a nation is manufactured from salt. Again, 00:01:56.160 --> 00:01:58.500 align:middle line:84% riot cops arrive with their faces removed. 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:01.710 align:middle line:84% Again, a line is drawn by militarized uniforms. 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:03.330 align:middle line:84% Again, camps are built on the border 00:02:03.330 --> 00:02:05.190 align:middle line:90% between two imagined countries. 00:02:05.190 --> 00:02:08.009 align:middle line:84% Again, our suffering the garnish on the meat of empire. 00:02:08.009 --> 00:02:09.539 align:middle line:90% Again, it's business as usual. 00:02:09.539 --> 00:02:11.970 align:middle line:84% Again, the president says the best thing you can do now 00:02:11.970 --> 00:02:12.480 align:middle line:90% is shop. 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:15.090 align:middle line:84% Again, my grandmother can't bear to read the news. 00:02:15.090 --> 00:02:18.390 align:middle line:84% Again, my grandmother shakes her head, and crows fly from it. 00:02:18.390 --> 00:02:20.250 align:middle line:84% Again, I write the lawyer's number 00:02:20.250 --> 00:02:21.780 align:middle line:90% on the meat of my forearm." 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:22.710 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:02:22.710 --> 00:02:24.270 align:middle line:90% "Is this my country? 00:02:24.270 --> 00:02:25.230 align:middle line:90% Is this my mother? 00:02:25.230 --> 00:02:26.340 align:middle line:90% Is this my mouth? 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:28.440 align:middle line:84% Is this my mother tongue, her mother's tongue? 00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:29.250 align:middle line:90% May I use it? 00:02:29.250 --> 00:02:30.930 align:middle line:90% Is this isthmus or Ismael? 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:34.140 align:middle line:84% Is this an island I'm trapped on, separated from my people? 00:02:34.140 --> 00:02:36.060 align:middle line:84% Is this land mine, this land mine? 00:02:36.060 --> 00:02:37.020 align:middle line:90% Is this Israel? 00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:37.650 align:middle line:90% Is it real? 00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:38.340 align:middle line:90% Is it really? 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:41.220 align:middle line:84% Is Israel a state or a song you carry inside you? 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:41.940 align:middle line:90% Is it now? 00:02:41.940 --> 00:02:43.140 align:middle line:90% Is there camps there, too? 00:02:43.140 --> 00:02:45.150 align:middle line:84% Is this a test, this assimilation? 00:02:45.150 --> 00:02:48.180 align:middle line:84% Is this the reason police didn't break up their demonstration? 00:02:48.180 --> 00:02:50.180 align:middle line:84% Is this what my grandparents dreamed of when 00:02:50.180 --> 00:02:51.180 align:middle line:90% they fled their country? 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:52.830 align:middle line:90% Is this the field narrowing? 00:02:52.830 --> 00:02:53.850 align:middle line:90% Is it so wrong? 00:02:53.850 --> 00:02:55.620 align:middle line:90% Is the truth self-evident? 00:02:55.620 --> 00:02:57.300 align:middle line:90% Is all men created? 00:02:57.300 --> 00:02:59.220 align:middle line:84% Is that a light at the end of the tunnel, 00:02:59.220 --> 00:03:01.510 align:middle line:90% or is that the barrel of a gun?" 00:03:01.510 --> 00:03:02.010 align:middle line:90% [CLAPPING] 00:03:02.010 --> 00:03:03.180 align:middle line:90% "Now, the hour. 00:03:03.180 --> 00:03:04.440 align:middle line:90% Now, thunder. 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:07.410 align:middle line:84% Now, the time for all good men now against the wall. 00:03:07.410 --> 00:03:09.240 align:middle line:84% Now, with both hands behind your back. 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:10.890 align:middle line:84% Now, write down the names of your next 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:12.060 align:middle line:90% of kin, where they pray. 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:13.380 align:middle line:90% Now is the time. 00:03:13.380 --> 00:03:15.340 align:middle line:84% Now, sign your name on the dotted line. 00:03:15.340 --> 00:03:17.250 align:middle line:84% Now, another people cross a desert, 00:03:17.250 --> 00:03:19.498 align:middle line:84% are stopped by men who believe they are gods. 00:03:19.498 --> 00:03:20.790 align:middle line:90% Now, remember, you're crossing. 00:03:20.790 --> 00:03:22.260 align:middle line:90% Now, remember your cross. 00:03:22.260 --> 00:03:23.640 align:middle line:90% Now, put this blindfold on. 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:24.690 align:middle line:90% Now, go out and shop. 00:03:24.690 --> 00:03:25.380 align:middle line:90% Now, business. 00:03:25.380 --> 00:03:26.160 align:middle line:90% Now, pray cops. 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:27.660 align:middle line:90% Now, that's what I call love. 00:03:27.660 --> 00:03:28.860 align:middle line:90% Now, love your government. 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:31.470 align:middle line:84% Now, your neighbor a reason not to love you back. 00:03:31.470 --> 00:03:32.700 align:middle line:90% Now, don't throw a brick. 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:35.310 align:middle line:84% Now, don't use your body to block a government building. 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:37.410 align:middle line:84% Now, don't riot for anything but sport. 00:03:37.410 --> 00:03:39.840 align:middle line:84% Now, don't flood the streets with rage horses. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:40.980 align:middle line:90% Now, history begins. 00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:43.110 align:middle line:84% Now here at the beginning of history. 00:03:43.110 --> 00:03:48.200 align:middle line:84% Now is the beginning of history at the beginning again." 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:48.700 align:middle line:90% Cool. 00:03:48.700 --> 00:03:51.610 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:03:51.610 --> 00:03:54.035 align:middle line:90% Cool. 00:03:54.035 --> 00:03:55.010 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:03:55.010 --> 00:03:56.070 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:03:56.070 --> 00:03:56.570 align:middle line:90% Cool. 00:03:56.570 --> 00:03:59.140 align:middle line:90% Thank you for listening.