Amy Goodman
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Dream Defenders Launch #SquaDD2016 Campaign: "We're Black, Brown, Radical, Tired as Hell"
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March 16, 2016
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3:59Now PlayingAs Florida voters went to the polls to cast their votes based on a narrow list of candidatestwo Democrats and four Republicansorganizers across the state were launching their own communityled presidential campaign, dubbed SquaDD2016. It’s the latest initiative from the Florida activist group the Dream Defenders, which formed in the wake of the death of Trayvon Martin. In 2013, the group occupied the Florida state House for 31 days to protest Florida’s controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. Since then, the Dream Defenders has organized around voting rights and access. And now the group is imagining what the country would look like if its organizers occupied Washington, D.C., itself. In the launch video, SquaDD2016 explains, "We are the future of this yet to be great countryblack, brown, radical and tired as hell. Imagine with us, what would be possible if we ran for the highest offices in this country?" SquaDD2016 already has a presidential Cabinet, complete with a vice president, secretary of commerce, secretary of education, two secretaries of state, an attorney general and a newly created position, the "secretary of shade," to keep people honest.
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