Boots Riley

Yeah, come by.

I'm not going to be there.

But I forgot about it.

And so they came by with a van full of 14-year-old girls.

And they were like, hey, you want to go to the beach?

And I was like, oh, yeah, I definitely want to go to the beach with y'all.

And they were like, but first we're going to stop and stop off and support the Watsonville Cannery Workers.

And then so that's kind of how I got hoodwinked into it, because I entered the van with, you know, flirtatious goals.

And and then I met.

These girls who were like they were talking about things that were on the news, the world events, these sorts and and and things that I purposely was trying to ignore because I didn't have a sense that I could have any effect on it.

Right.

Right.

I didn't have a sense that like it didn't matter if I paid attention or not, because what am I going to do?

These are just things that that happen.

And they were talking about it.

And I realized that.

They felt that they could have something to do with what happened.

And it was connected to this cannery worker strike that we were going to.

That this was not only about someone trying to get higher wages, but it was about how you might be able to create a movement that has the power to fight.

to affect those who are in power.