me to day we hope to take a closer look at action to end this slave state that still exists in louisiana the louisiana's ruling class has responded by calling for a constitutional convention and twenty two thousand and twenty their ant back relax because this is probably going to be a presentation that you have not experienced and i know i have been to play a few of the panel that have happened here in this building throughout this event and i have met some very powerful powerful people and leaders that are definitely without a doubt she's moving and shaking the entire country so  on this is not about me i can stand here and tell you home lot of stories about me what motivated me and where my passion the reason why i'm so passionate about the work and i'm doing because i want you to know without a doubt this is about all of us this is the one that we can unite without a doubt that would bring us all together because i know we can win this one we have to prove that we can win but it's going to take all of us together to do this is started in the we see em and we can finish it there and that's what i want you to know you know  as should be ashamed of itself and we don't want the whole world to know that the criminal justice system and the state of louisiana is a disgrace is a disaster and we know why that the reason why we're here in new york that the reason why we came to the left from because we feel like this is a breeding ground to get is worth spread across the entire country oh what happened to the people in the state of louisiana katrina told the real story about how bad people was treated there i'm not coming to you with a speech i don't want you to know the truth the real cheap about what's really going on because some two of those who we see have at the club corrupt criminal justice system so goes the world is not just happening there it's happening it was a mockery because whenever the slaves would cry out and say i want to go back home almost forty years for forty one years doesn't have anything to do with their innocence but the reason why do do embody and notice don't worry about the end of the three do you know the reason still would not mind him working i mean i would not want them walking around in my prison because i know that they were organized and young in m i don't know what really got him fired up to be a part of this great work that we're doing he has a story but we have a story that we want to share what really got  orleans is like a quarter of right outside of new orleans where new orleans is congested so if you out here in this area you're going to be all the homes for on it's all twenty three million dollars homes for people twenty three  had five children four children right in that union they had two more children all of these children were boys they were told that they had a total of thirteen boys and this is the victor's boys were  to that we were successful and getting them all change and i know betty read to the history of that but that was up i'm constitutional raises jim crow law that was s so it said that there shall be no slavery in the united states x x for people that are incarcerated and i'd like to ask you this question that nobody ever puts together is that by coincidence or is that by design because when i'm in prison a bunch of corporations get free labor and i can bake some sheets and i can do some railroad ties and i can make little chips for these but the fact of the matter is that the federal government pays people for you to be in consecrated probably cost the taxpayers about forty thousand dollars  inmate per year and all of them to receive that federal government money they have to have a ninety seven percent occupancy so what they do is train people around to become partners with him to build homes for them and he was on his way to build an age group model that would actually open up the economic development where his wife colleen was saying that the child was having difficulty breathing he tells her i would give him some water you know you try to get him you know put some water on him coming you know get him you know cool down maybe highway to get to the house he gets home he realized that there was nothing he could do the tablet gasping for breath they put the child in the car rushing to the hospital stay alive get to the hospital and he no no no no ok so what happened was our mr victor and i had no i never heard of mr victor until six o'clock that morning she called me and says would you go to court with me and one of the things that she has left out of the story that is so thinks quickly on his feet and i just said ok fine if we can't argue over spilled milk so why dear one no i'm wondering that's when they start to future i start writing questions to mr big to ask because he's to she told you earlier the mr victory is extremely brilliant when mr victor didn't take it sitting down he would sit and go but he wanted to end goal is the library and started doing his research and he's the one that came us the judge wanted to put a gag order on the media she didn't want no media in a court room now i'm a court watcher ok by registration in louisiana have been kept in solitary or incarcerated just in general her son is sixty four weighs two hundred and eighty five pounds there's it you've got a system that has disproportionately put even hot bail on people who do not have it and that's one of the critical things we have to work against the elimination of that bail system which is maybe panhandling you know what you need to get out you need a one hundred and twenty five dollars surcharge which is put off of the system and economic feet in order to get out for  convicted shall exist within the united states or any place subject to their jurisdiction eight hundred and sixty five there was a mass incarceration there was a mass system o do with the contention with industrialization from the north and a different mechanism for production whether they do they needed to say they needed to deal with spitting on the sidewalk alleged this respect all coming out of black and white supremacist concepts so you begin to now make a body of labor that feeds into not just in the fraud of labels so we abolish slavery xcept that we invented a system of laws that was capable of incarcerating people into the development of the system of ma incarceration and of course we know that sometimes the numbers are staggering and we have a system of involuntary slavery involuntary servitude which persists one hundred right i just want to stick to more things before i believe my seat back to my sister and that is living in what you're saying i'm a legal aid lawyer for thirty five years oh do we put in prison who's in rikers island the overwhelming number of the arrest continued to be notwithstanding the law of the uk stuff and frisk misdemeanor marijuana arrest leading the rikers island jail which of course should be closed to mediately but i also want to just to really segue back into you in angola of two thousand people and then there's so much to be because i'm not sure it's always clear you suppose step out of a unanimous jury to be able to convict somebody of life for life imprisonment not even having all white juries will have two people of color on the jury and they will be the ones who will vote against the conviction but it doesn't matter because all you need is not to vote for life imprisonment so we went to the supreme court aside from local demonstrations some went to the supreme court hey that means a lot right and the supreme court ruled that it's unconstitutional but of course what they never rolled is that it's retroactive but they didn't have to and that's the struggle of so there are at least two thousand people which have been vetted by this extraordinary organization that had been convicted under unconstitutional law and upheld by even the supreme court of the u s two thousand on this jury which is supposed to be the absence of the promise of democracy and due process and it is our job to support these champions of social activism whose son does wind up getting put in a squirrel cage who give all of them selves in  brutal and vicious sting to make sure that to begin with the two thousand people that are being held under this unconstitutional law are let the hell out and one good thing damn girl