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Campus Free Speech Rally

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Change for Actually,

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everything. What do we want? Justice works.

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I was gonna say free speech, but justice can work. We'll do both. All right. What do we want?

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Change what a

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justice. He

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never be divided. People United can never be divided. People united, people united. People United can never be divided. People united,

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it from two of the more common groups here on campus for student organized.

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Organizing, please welcome Lily Dunn, president of Mizzou, sorry, Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine over the steering

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committee for ydsa.

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Oh, everyone, but I'm here to tell you

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one thing, man, Joy is afraid of us. JP, are suing him. Question,

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analyze.

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And you know what? You know what he told us in court. He views his job as to prevent 2015 from happening again. We are that very spirit of 2015 we'll bring justice

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to this campus.

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What he fears is that us united, worker and student, faculty,

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staff, students, all combined, we represent more power than he could ever hope to help.

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He can restrict our ability to be in the home country. But you know what we showed him when we got that ability back? He can force us to not celebrate our alumni, but you know what? He won't let that stand. He can try to say that we can't be disruptive, but the only way things

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change is if we are disruptive, as students, as a worker, we will not be defeated. You.

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Okay, y'all don't

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know me. I'm also a member of both boards, like Lily, yeah, that's been going on recently. I figured that's more important to

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talk about. Y'all familiar with

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Speaker circle, yeah, able to say whatever you want, no matter where, right? So a couple days ago, I mentioned he was tapeling, and we decided to do some talking to combat some of the Zionist misinformation has been happening. And then after we were talking for a bit, some students, who I guess weren't happy about it, made a little call. All of a sudden, maintenance is here, and they have a power washer. And we're like, that's weird. And then they laughed, and then they saw our chalking, but then the minute we leave, they power wash all of our chocolate.

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Oh, went that night and

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talked again, and then it was power washed again, five or six times, and it

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just all we were saying. Thing was like three Palace guys by putting out his pro Palace, which has

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always been fine before, all of a

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sudden it's not okay. And sorry, I'm like, you good. We didn't break any of the chopping rules.

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We didn't do anything painful.

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We didn't say anything bad. We followed exactly where we were supposed to chalk and what we were supposed to chalk, but it was still power washed away. Because Funny thing is, the only people who can take down chalk is if you put it up or regularly scheduled maintenance. But I don't think power washing a couple times a day is regularly scheduled

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maintenance.

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When we did this, a community member went and talked to these people, some wonderful, amazing people who were totally on our side and wanted us to keep talking. But they were told, specifically from man Choi that they had to power wash it, and if it wasn't all going It's crazy,

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because I don't know if you

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guys have seen speaker circle recently, but there's been a lot of actually hateful stuff. Perfectly fine, sexually harassing students on campus. Perfectly fine. Being bigoted, perfectly fine. We put chop on the ground that is just pro Palestine. That's not okay. Everyone really covered

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what I wanted to talk about. We shouldn't have to censor ourselves. Students, faculty and staff shouldn't have to censor themselves. They shouldn't be forced to censor us, and we should be as disagreeable as we want to do if we're fighting

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for people's human rights. Protect our

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students. You read your beautiful.

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This is an amazing crowd. Thank you all so much for being here.

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We got two more speakers. Y'all talk about how this is in on university professors, doctors, heard

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About that email that came

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out, the email that warns warned

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employees

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that could be disciplined or even fired for speech on their own time, the email said causes significant disruption. That was the phrase, speech that causes significant disruption. So that made me think about disruption, about actions that cause disruption on this campus, actions by the administration that have caused significant disruption for employees and for students. You employees

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pay time off.

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Days fire that person.

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What about making employees Park much further away from their workplaces, making them spend more of their own time to get to work, putting them at greater risk for coming to work late now getting docked for pay or making them pay a lot more for parking. That sounds

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disruptive. What about telling the Legion of Black Collegians, a student organization that is as old as I am that they can't use the word black in the name of their block party. And then, after the LBC tried to work with the administration, the administration went ahead and canceled the event entirely, and on short notice,

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significantness,

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what about prohibiting Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from participating in the homecoming parade for two years in a row and then getting sued the federal court where a federal judge ruled that There was more than a quote, fair chance that President Troy violated their First Amendment rights. Violating the First Amendment rights of students is disruptive and unconstitutional and wrong.

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The. There are other instances of significant disruption on this campus. What about raising the cost of employee benefits, such as health care premiums? That's a pay cuts

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are disruptive.

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What about stagnating wages while the cost of living keeps going up when you don't see a raise that comes even close to the rise in living costs, that's a serious cut for your wages. That's disruptive in terms of your pocketbook, your budget, your household. It doesn't get any more disruptive than that.

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President Choi the new administration are really concerned about disruption, and they need

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to stop being disruptive. They need to

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do better with employee wages and benefits.

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They need to do better with the constitutional right to collective bargaining. They need to do better with the First Amendment rights for all employees and students, including citizens and non

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citizens, free speech. Or some

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chance first, all, right?

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