Show me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!
Help me what democracy sounds like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
Show me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!
Help me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
Show me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy looks like!
Help me what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
Help me what democracy looks like!
This person who was kind of spewing these very radical ideas using rhetoric that I was pretty
shocked at.
At that time I did not think that he would make it as far as he did.
I'm a Cleveland physician, I'm a black Muslim American professional and there's not a single
part of me that Donald Trump has not offended.
Stand for each other, stand for your college, your friends.
Anyone in your life that Donald Trump has scapegoated or targeted over the last year.
My name's Brian Hambly, I'm a fellow in critical care medicine here in Cleveland and I live
in Shaker Heights which is just outside of Cleveland.
Trump announced late on Sunday night in early March that he was going to be doing a rally
in Cleveland ahead of the Ohio primary and early the next morning I woke up and I got
an email from my friend Nate Stahauer and it just said we have to do something.
So Stand is actually an organization that was started by other internal medicine physicians
so it was actually some of my colleagues and they sort of expressed to me their frustration
with a lot of what was going on with Donald Trump which I shared and through just sort
of talking with them I kind of got involved in the group since I ascribed to sort of their
message and agreed with a lot of what they were saying.
My name is Fatima Thulala, I'm a physician in internal medicine and I'm from the Cleveland
area.
I got involved with stats after Trump had won the Indiana primary and he became the presumptive
Republican candidate.
Brian Hambly our founder had put out a sort of call for action on Facebook and said if
you're interested and if this speaks to you come to my house basically and so I did and
here we are several you know months later getting ready to stage peaceful positive
protest at the RNC.
What am I doing wrong and tell me what the real is because don't give me delivery, give
me an answer, tell me how am I going to survive, how am I going to keep them safe.
Get out of my fucking way.
This is a tinder box, there's every reason to believe that Cleveland could explode, a
combination of the polarization, the realization we now have as a nation about the killing
of people of color, then the trouble with the cops being killed in Dallas and in Baton Rouge
put the cops on edge.
I know that even before that happened I talked to cops who were coming in from other areas
coming in here expecting them to get me.
Since Friday we've had our first session of the peace and nonviolent protestor training
that happened this morning at the Ohio City Masonic Center and it was a longer session.
We were interested in training peace marshals that would be able to work to de-escalate
if God forbid the event of violence or provocateur protesters came against our group.
So that was very valuable for someone like me, I've never done anything politically active
or been a protestor, activist, none of those labels have ever been associated with me.
I'm a registered nurse and a mom and a lifelong Clevelander.
My name is Nathan Stahauer, I'm an internist and pediatrician here in Cleveland.
Like my wife Christina I hadn't done a lot of protesting before this year but there's
something that I find deeply concerning about Donald Trump and I spent a lot of time thinking
about what that is.
What is it about Mr. Trump that has us out here in public square?
I think there's a line between political views with which we can politely disagree and dangerous
hate filled rhetoric that we need to stand up and challenge and it's clear to me that
Mr. Trump has crossed this line many times throughout his candidacy.
When people see a group organizing against the Republican nominee a lot of people assume
that we are Democrats or assume that we're liberals or assume that we're anti-Republican
but we are really trying to work against that perception because it's certainly not
the real story.
Are you all at the door coming to public square?
Yeah.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Yeah.
All right.
So we're just handing out water at public square.
That's the idea.
I do not promote sin and I won't get into that category right now because my time hasn't
come yet so please put away your guns, put them on the shelf, that is come to the table
to contact me.
I really am a presidential candidate for the United States of America for 2016 because
I don't like what I see and I don't like what I've seen over the years.
And you will find my name on the Federal Relations Commission website and I am a preacher who
is licensed and ordained in all five offices of the church.
And I am a preacher who is licensed and ordained in all five offices of the church.
And I am a preacher who is licensed and ordained in all five offices of the church.
I seek peace and I do pursue it.
I vote on race 1, 2, 1, 6, 5, 4, 8, 0, 8, 2, 0 and it's time to put the women and warfare
away and it's time to put the guns away and it's time to peace in the name of Jesus Christ
in the flesh.
Which is true.
So your protest on Thursday is the big one and it is an anti-Trump protest.
Absolutely.
So in what way does the message you're trying to convey with the passing of the water bottles
have to do with that broader message?
The only thing that's kind of similar between it is that there's a fundamental truth here
that we are all in this together, and more than we might feel on any given day.
We see that as any young professional, anyone in their workplace who rely on each other,
immigrants who rely on people of different religions and ethnic groups.
And whether it's just a near hundred degree day in Cleveland or we're trying to build
a future for each other, we have to recognize that we're in this together.
So we have to recognize that we're in this together.
We have to recognize that we're in this together.
Yesterday we participated in the Stop Trump rally in March as well as the In Poverty
Now rally in March.
They were really good events.
The best part about yesterday was the amount of peaceful, positive protests that was going
on.
We were worried about violence because our constituents are people that are unlikely
to come out in a chaotic environment.
And so we needed the first two news cycles Sunday and Monday to be peaceful, uneventful,
really low-key in downtown, and that's exactly what we got.
So now is the transition.
So this morning we interviewed with Geraldo Rivera, with Fox News, Fatima and I talked
with him.
By some fluke of whatever is going on right now, we've found ourselves at the center of
the Thursday events against Trump, which is not where a mid-sized group of doctors and
nurses ever expected to be.
So we've been getting calls from Fox News, we're doing CNN tomorrow, we just were talking
with NPR, NPR National is coming to the house I think on Wednesday night.
My phone is vibrating four or five times since we started talking.
So it's great, the amount of media attention has been great.
How we transition that into something that is useful, effective, hopeful.
That's a challenge.
This isn't the party that we didn't want to be at, if nobody else was going to come,
this is a party that we were going to be at regardless of who else came.
And a lot of people downstairs are looking at each of us to try to figure out what is
this spirit, are we happy with what we're doing and we're happy with what we're doing.
So that kind of has to pervade all of us or it will trickle down and this thing will
look like it's burning in flames.
We hope it is said in our sleep that in a time of hate Cleveland was not hateful, in
a time of division we stood together, in a time of fear we were not afraid.
We were not afraid, we were not afraid.
We were not afraid, we were not afraid.
You know, I think events, the unfortunate events that happen in Baton Rouge and in
Dallas as far as police shootings and across the country with the unnecessary killing of
young black men, I think racial tensions are very high right now.
And I think that there's definitely a sort of, we're at this moment where we can continue
to be divided and wedge and marginalize groups in our society or we can come together and
have understanding and tolerance and empathy and learn from each other.
A candidate like Trump is going to bring nothing but continued wedging, fearmongering,
hatred, violence.
And it even more just solidifies the need for a group like this that's coming to say
as Americans we stand against his values.
His values do not represent American values and at a time when this country is at such
a dire need for a strong leader to bring us together, Trump is not going to be that man.
So that's the one that the cartoonists made that.
I don't want to hear another hero call for you all, I don't want to hear another hero
call for you all, I don't want to hear another hero call for you all, I don't want to hear
another hero call for you all, I don't want to hear another hero call for you all, I don't
want to hear another hero call for you all, I don't want to hear another hero call for
Many of you have never protested a day in your life.
More than 70% of our list is protesting for the first time in their lives.
How far above the earth are we?
Everybody, the positive attitude without it, regardless of what happened, is exactly what we needed.
Especially when we went back across the bridge.
Same spirit tonight, no matter what happens.
Westboro Baptist will almost, they, I think that was, was that Westboro?
Was it somebody else's Westboro?
Yeah, they know our event schedule.
Almost certainly Westboro was there tonight.
So is there anyone speaking, chanting? We're expecting them.
Any comments or brief about them? We did, we run.
We don't, we're not there to oppose Westboro.
We are the doctors!
Immigrant doctors!
Everywhere we go!
People want to know!
Who we are!
So we tell them!
I've been in the midst of this group of people who weren't usually active, getting active.
People who kind of found in each other a support structure to do something that they could never have imagined doing alone.
I don't think any of the speakers last night would have been speakers at that if it wasn't for the whole team that was around them.
And that's not a unique thing to Cleveland or a couple hospital systems in Cleveland.
I think each community has that kind of capacity, has those kinds of people.
American doctors!
We are the doctors!
We are the doctors!
American doctors!
American doctors!
I want to be able to say that we did everything we could when he came to Cleveland.
And that's why we're pouring so much energy. Jana and I have turned our house into kind of a protest headquarters of sorts.
And I just don't want this moment to go by without people standing up to it.
And so being a part of that is something that I want to take away.
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