David Ross. Shout out to David Ross. Coming to the mic. My name's David Ross. I'm a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. I had veterans for peace. In 1965, in the spring, I heard a rumor of war. I'm going. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I'm in Germany. I got a Volkswagen with a Porsche engine. I found a town full of Irish Scotch and Welsh mill girls. I'm currently retired. I don't care if I go climbing in the Alps. I'll take a few days here in Nara. I got it made. I volunteered to go to Vietnam. My buddy Ken. I came back and coached. Ken came back and baggage. So, I was discharged on the 4th of July, 1967. I got the paperwork to prove it. So, when I was a kid, we went to a place called White Castle to get these new little 12 cent hamburgers, which would be so delicious. But we had a black friend with us, John Chambers. They would let him come in. One of the parents had a business. They let us use the Mimograph machine.  They don't serve black people. Well, boy, we had a meeting with the principal, the business guy, our parents, everybody. We thought, no, we're not going to stop putting these up. So, that's where I got started. Since then, I had a high. I moved up here. And anyway, I spent two years in Vietnam. I volunteered to go. Nice, safe job. Combat medic infantry, if you can imagine that. So, I came back. I was still kind of nominally supported the war. But once I found out what was really going on from the students, I turned against the war. Then I thought, we're carrying the crows. She was one of the founders of now, the National Organization of Women. She talked to me about sexism. We had a long day together. So, I was it. I was against sexism. I always been against racism. Now I'm against the war. Well, you ever saw Marlon Brando's movie, The Wild Ones? Motorcycle gang takes you over a small town out west someplace.  And his business guy comes up to Marlon Brando and he says, hey, come on, you know, this is a great country. What are you against? Marlon Brando says, what do you got? And that's where I am now because we're destroying the environment. I'm against everything. But I'm for something. I'm for social transformation. I'm for changing this country.  We have, here's your homework assignment.  The U.S. is not number one anymore. See what you come up with. You'll come up with a lot of stuff. We are so far behind this little tiny third world country you almost never heard of. Their infant mortality rate is significantly lower than ours. Leave me this final thought. Two women that impress me. No, not Hillary Clinton. I'll throw an employee SD and sure as a hell not, yeah, I forgot her name for a moment, our former female ambassador to Janker Patrick. And somebody asked her if they thought all the kids had died in Iraq from her, which my closest friend is Iraqi, lives here with me. She's got a toddler, an infant, can't get her husband in the country. She's got a master's in English from St. Mike's, an internationally traveled person and she doesn't have death sentence at home. So that's America, the stuff that we do. So you look this up. You see what America is.  So these two women, one was the doctor, a female doctor in Sweden and the television, American television interviewer said, why aren't you really uncomfortable with the amount of your income that you pay in taxes? She said no. She said, don't you pay like half a year of income in taxes? She said, sure. Well, doesn't that make you angry? No, why? Because we have free medical care, free day care, everyone has housing, everyone eats.  And because of that, people feel they're part of a big family. We all take care of each other and everybody wants to contribute. The other one was the prime minister of Iceland who at that time was a woman. Iceland's the one who sent their crooked bankers to jail. They sent them to prison. The banks didn't even pay back the money they stole. And they asked her, when you pass legislation, when you make a law, what criteria overrides your decision-making process? And she replied, when we pass a law, the first thing we ask, what effect will this law have on our children and what effect will this law have on their children's children? That's what I want to see from America. I want to see a big family. I want to see us take care of ourselves and so share some of this wealth around the world so other people can good strap up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Alright, so once again, we are all here gathered in this public space to amplify. And I just wanted to shout out a few voices that will be represented here. Big shout-outs to Megan Emery, professor of French at UVM. We'll be giving us talk here. Shout-out to James Mark Lease, and that's a patent lawyer in South Burlington, member of the National Lawyers Guild, and served on the NLG delegations to Gaza and Venezuela. That's a big shout-out we touch on the mic here. David Firzi is professor of music at UVM and vice president of United Academics, the faculty union at UVM. Also, Mohammed Abdi, where's Mohammed? Mohammed is so actually in presence, like doing the work in the background, representing the black perspective and the coalition of solidarity for solidarity. And he'll be here giving a speech or giving a talk right up next. And then Tanya V. Hovski is a licensed social worker and a newly elected state representative from Essex. She is a member of the House Committee and government operations. These are the voices that will be speaking here, giving amplification and representing in this demonstration. So just to continue with the amplification, we'll bring up Mohammed Abdi, representing from the black perspective and the coalition for solidarity. Did I say solidarity? Did I say it right? All right, guys, thank you all for being here today. I just wanted to start off by letting everybody know that we are on unceded albinaki land. For those of you who don't know what that means, that means that this is not the white man's land. So I just wanted to clarify that. So I'm here to talk a little bit about the coalition for solidarity. It's a new organization that was started by me and Jimmy. And we have a couple of organizations that are a part of it right now. And the whole purpose of this coalition is to amplify other organizations. That's what our purpose is. So we ourselves do not have any particular goal aside from that. So what we're here is to be a resource for all these different organizations that are here today. And we just want to amplify their voices. And if anybody's interested, if there's any organization or any individual that wants to be a part of this coalition for solidarity, please reach out to me or Jimmy. And we can get you started on that. So thank you very much. I just want to talk about that. So the next person who's going to be speaking is Professor Megan Emory. She is a professor of French at the University of Vermont and one of the leaders of UVM United Against the Cuts. Please welcome Megan Emory. She's also vice chair of the South Burlington City Council. Thank you, Jimmy. I'm also a good friend of Jimmy's. And he's been in my life for many, many years working on this. And I just want to give credit to Mohammed Abdi for coming up with the amplifying each other. I love that as a theme. So just want to give him credit for that. So happy fourth, everybody, right? It's a big day. And on the fourth of July, it's the day that we celebrate the declaration of independence and the birthday of the great experiment that is and continues to be the United States of America. And I am here as a descendant of immigrants, as a patriot, a mother, a local official who has fought long and hard for this, among other things, a resident of Chamberlain neighborhood in South Burlington, adjacent to the airport, and as a worker and a teacher to talk about the power of words and ideas. Specifically, I am here as an associate professor of French on behalf of the University of Vermont faculty, students, alumni, and community members who support the UVM United Against the Cuts movement. And we are fighting for shared governance at UVM, where top administrators have been paying millions of dollars per year on themselves and on their consultants, all while they were announcing the closure of departments and salary cuts for our most vulnerable faculty members, the untenured faculty and lecturers, and staff, until we stood up and said no. No. No to the closure of majors, no to downgrading programs, and we're still working on that, no to gutting our faculty and staff, squeezing us dry and shifting us around like widgets. And we continue to say no to depriving our programs of needed resources and denying us our voice as stakeholders in this great university, your university, our state university. We learned just last week about the poaching of our library's budget by UVM Central Administration. After years of flat budgets, 0% when the top administrators are paying themselves millions of dollars per year. The libraries consulted and passed through the Faculty Senate a long, arduous process I attended those meetings, the strategic decision to cancel an increasingly expensive package subscription to Elsevier Science Direct, in order to order individual highest-used titles and to serve us better. Well, what happened? Of the $1.8 million that they recouped by canceling that subscription, UVM Central Administration has taken nearly $1.4 million without consulting them, just taking it. For other uses, will we ever know? We have to ask and we have to demand to know. So effectively, the library's careful planning in order to better provide for our learning community, and it's a public library, so this learning community has been undermined. Libraries are the foundation of democracies and of public universities, and therefore this latest move on top of all that has happened and been exposed by UVM United over the past 13 months is a renewed assault on all of us. They are, they're defenders of our democracy. Get to know a librarian if you want to know a true patriot. Really. The Great American Experiment is one of self-government, and it is dependent on the principle of equality, which is itself derived from solidarity, the theme of today's event. And let me quote from that document that we are celebrating today. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and people are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men and all of us, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Now, we know that our democracy is something we have to wake up every day to fight for. We did not win it on that July 4th back in 1776. We did not win it when the British general Cornwallis finally capitulated to American and French forces at Yorktown in 1781, nor in any major military victory since. We win it momentarily, such as when General Washington, that's George, a man not necessarily destined for greatness due to his father's death. He did not have the great education of many of our forefathers. And as a slaveholder, he was a man of his time. But when he recognized his responsibility and voluntarily resigned his commission in 1783 and returned to his farm as a private citizen, democracy one. And let me quote from what he wrote. Here it is. The first resort was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties. So it ought to be the first to be laid aside when these liberties are firmly established. And as he went on to say, having now finished the work assigned me, I now retire from the great theater of action. Words that we should heed. So our democracy is renewed daily through action and we honor our individual and collective legacy as Americans when we honor our soldier's lives rather than the sword. Thank you. It's very fitting we started with a veteran speaking here today. We win when we send our soldiers and all our residents to school. And when we give them the tools of learning so that they may better themselves and work toward their promised happiness. Our democracy is renewed in our everyday interactions in every situation when we treat one another with respect. When we listen and debate and protect self-expression, a right we earn by being born as our Declaration of Independence states. Simply by being born. When we ensure that everyone has a place at the table and that honest conversation can be held there, we honor our democracy. We honor the daily sacrifices made through the sweat of our brow and our lives for a more perfect union. And as we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, a day marked by righteous anger and love, and we continue to feel it today, righteous anger and love, that is patriotism in service to human rights and justice, we know that our work is not yet done. Self-government continues to be a goal toward which we strive to which we must give our full attention, our energy and our sweat and our words. Our public libraries are at the heart of a thriving democracy of and by and for the people. And so UVM United joins you all. We salute you all and we will not give up until people who are at the heart of this great country have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. All who contribute to this effort, thank you too for being a voice for many as we acknowledge the steps we need to take toward the realization of liberty and justice for all. As I wrote to a newly appointed member of one of our committees in South Burlington, our first, who is 16 years old, born to immigrant parents, I wrote, this is core to the social contract of our democracy. All who contribute to our future happiness and shared prosperity as a society should have equal access to the benefits of belonging. And so UVM United will continue to fight for you all, for the state, as we fight for faculty and staff to have a place at the table of shared governance. Happy fourth. Thanks. Let me introduce Wafiq. Wafiq is a member of Vermonters for Justice in Palestine. Wafiq. Thank you, James. Thank you, Muhammad. My name is Wafiq. I'm a member of Vermonter for Justice in Palestine. I born refugee in Lebanon. I will ask your sister and brother to stick with this occasion. Fourth of July didn't come in 1776, but started on December 1773 when a patriot won a garb of the indigenous people and they went and stopped Dutch and English ships on the harbor of Boston. And this was the start of a revolution to end the colonialist British and occupation of this land. The second thing, it was the call for boycott of the product T and the start of no taxation with no representation. Us as a Palestinian, we ask you to stand up with us against the support that the United States and the British gave to the colonialist entity Israel and its apartheid and occupation of the land of Palestine. We ask you to stand up to stand up and support to boycott divestment, sanctions against all Israeli products until all the apartheid laws and rules of Palestine end.  There is no independence without the independent of the people. Here around us the people of colors are suffering under different laws and rules of this country. Black and brown people are under different laws on this country on education, on healthcare, in housing and police and justice system we have to stop that if they are not independent equal with equity there is no independence of this country. We want to hear about your friend we want to take care of you we are here for you we love you and we won't forget about Perry a man named Perry was killed last night is what I'm hearing and they're scared because he's up at the hospital so if we're going to talk about amplifying voices we are going to amplify every voice. Thank you Morgan that was very helpful I'd like to introduce our next speaker, Tanya Fajhovski Tanya is a licensed social worker and the newly elected representative to the house from Essex she's a member of the house committee on government operations and her campaign for the house was endorsed by the AFL-CIO the VSEA the NEA, the AFT V-PURG Planned Parenthood the Sierra Club and Bernie Sanders. Thank you so much good afternoon and thank you for being here thank you to the black perspective the people for peace and security and the coalition for solidarity for bringing us all together and happy 4th of July today as we come together we certainly have some things to celebrate and a lot of work to keep on doing we are beginning to come out of the last 16 months of pandemic living the governor has lifted the state of emergency and many are breathing a sigh of relief believing that the emergency is over while we do indeed seem to be moving towards COVID recovery and away from immediate dangers of the pandemic the emergency is not over it has been going on for too long and it has only gotten worse too many people are facing food insecurity are not sure where their next meal is coming from and this is an emergency too many BIPOC people are dying young because of white supremacy and this is an emergency too many people are struggling to live and even dying because of unmet and unaffordable healthcare needs and this is an emergency we are facing record heat waves, extreme weather events, resource shortages because of climate change and this is an emergency too many people cannot afford to lead dignified lives and are instead struggling and sometimes unable to even keep a roof over their heads and this is an emergency too many people with disabilities are unable to work because of inaccessibility and discrimination and this is an emergency too many women still make less than men for their work and are severely underrepresented in leadership positions and this is an emergency too many people are dying and having their lives ruined as we funnel trillions upon trillions of dollars into endless war emergency and far too many people struggle to vote, participate be included and represented in the very system of government that has promoted and perpetuated many of these emergencies and this too is an emergency the COVID pandemic emergency has ripped the mask off and laid bare the reality of our many broken systems and the long standing emergencies that many have been forced to survive with for centuries we look to move forward towards recovery we're going to face a lot of pressure to just go back to normal we cannot do this we must come together across issue, race national origin, ideology religion and personal background to fight for a better tomorrow normal has sucked for most of us and it's gotten worse we must unite and stand in solidarity with our siblings fighting for workers' rights with our siblings fighting for racial justice with our siblings fighting for climate justice we must stand with our siblings fighting for health care justice and economic justice for land access, for reparations and everything that we cannot continue to live without the issues are many and they are immense and what we know from history is that when the people come together and fight for each other's issues we take leaps forward towards liberty and justice for all and we are none of us free until we are all of us free the civil rights act did not come about because people in power said enough was enough no this monumental win came because the people stood up and demanded it white women did not gain the right to vote because men in power simply gave it to them no they gained this right because the people came together and demanded it LGBTQ people did not gain the right to marry because the people preventing it decided to stop no the defensive marriage act was overturned because the people organized and demanded it abusive dangerous and exploitive working conditions were not stopped because the bosses and owners one day realized it was wrong no unions and workers stood together to demand the protections that many of us take for granted today people with disabilities were not granted the protections of the Americans with disabilities act out of nowhere years of organizing and demonstrating made this a reality and if we continue to come together we can continue to make things better today's issues are far reaching and they touch nearly all of us and we have the power as the people of this nation and this state to change them all our power lies in our ability to come together and fight for one another to fight for an issue that we may not see as our own and to fight for someone that we don't even know because we cannot and will not simply go back to a normal that was not working we will stand together because the people united can never be defeated and together we will win together we can once and for all have the dignity freedom and justice for all promised in our declaration of independence and we can stop living from emergency to emergency thank you all right thank you once again for amplified voices we'll have right now the people for police accountability really quickly Christy for police people for the police of for police accountability welcome many of you have seen my face on the news and quite a few other places I was part of having just cause evictions passed in March we will be at that again quite soon but today I am here for people for police accountability we ask a special special election to be warned to place a change of the Charter the city of Brewington before the voters to provide for the independent community disciplinary board for the Brewington police department this board will have the power to hear and decide complaints and pose discipline regarding police officer action in action or alleged misconduct and independent investigatory office with the power to investigate complaints of misconduct through an amendment of the Charter sections 89 and 190 setting forth the board selection process qualifications, composition members, terms, jurisdiction and powers and duties and the offices organization and powers and duties the language of the amendments to be attached on this petition that we are going around to have signed today just to report and there's a few other of us to have these clipboards I see Eugene, thank you very much yes Brewington residents anybody that's registered to vote in the city of Brewington can sign this and we ask that you please do the police have been beating on people this is not acceptable we do not need them beating on people and then or shooting them and asking questions later we need police to be accountable for their actions and to help our community not hurry and right now they're not helping us I know quite a few people that have had their houses broken into they're not responding I have one young lady that I know that her ex-boyfriend who she has a restraining order on is right now living in her house and the police will not enter it and remove him this is unacceptable behavior and when they're allowed to get away with it and we don't need that the police commission themselves cannot do that they can't even get the information they require to help people sort out their problems because the police department tells them that they don't need to give that to them so if you see somebody walking around with a clipboard today and you're voted you're registered to vote in the city of Brewington please do approach one of us and we'd be more than happy to take your signature thank you folks thank you very much Christy so our next speaker is David Firzik he's a professor of music at the University of Vermont and he's vice president of United Academics the faculty union at UVM he's also a board member of the Vermont AFL-CIO and is speaking today for the AFL-CIO thank you David thank you, yes not actually vice president but I am vice president of the AFL-CIO state labor council which is Vermont's largest labor organization and I'm here on that behalf and I want to thank Mohammed Abdi for inviting the labor organization to speak here today we see no daylight between workers' rights and the fight for social justice everywhere we oppose fascism racism sexism and discrimination of all kinds we understand that labor is strongest when we stand in solidarity with others when we are united as one single working class regardless of our differences we will not be fooled by those that want to divide us into antagonistic camps we know our strength comes from unity and from this unity comes true worker power an injury to one is an injury to all when we allow undocumented workers to accept unfair wages and unsafe working conditions because they are afraid to organize or protest from fear of their own lives when we direct deafening military flights over our less privileged communities when we put deadly chemical plants in our black and brown communities when we bomb brown people all over the planet to control their resource there is a denial and gas that are literally killing us when we have such gross inequality of wealth in this country and in this world that the richest imagine however delusionally that they can escape our mutual destruction we are planting the seeds of our shared apocalypse specifically as residents of Vermont I'm asking everyone here US senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and ask them to oppose the farm worker modernization act they've indicated so far some support for this and it's already passed the house with the support of our representative in congress and it's a bit of a trojan horse people are selling this as something that would add protections for undocumented workers but in fact it would institutionalize their inequality it includes provisions like an 8 year plan to apply for permanent residency and in those 8 years you have to work for the same farmer you become an indentured servant to that person and there's no accommodation for injury which as you may know happens to be a kind of common thing on the farm if you do this for 7 years working for the same employer that you have absolutely no way to speak out against for fear of losing your path to residency if in year 8 you're injured that's too bad for you you're out of the system, you're out of luck you're out of the country so we ask that you call your senators and ask them to oppose the farm worker modernization act we demand immediate citizenship for all essential workers they literally fed us and served us during the worst of the pandemic often at cost to their own lives we demand a quick and efficient and fair path to citizenship for all undocumented workers and when you call senators Leahy and Sanders and tell them you oppose the act tell them that you want to see stronger legislation that will guarantee these rights for all our workers we know that the greatest victories are won when organized labor fights with the downtrodden whoever and wherever they are the fight for economic justice is the fight for social justice the fight against worker exploitation is the fight against racism and sexism and xenophobia Martin Luther King knew this when he went to Memphis why did he go to Memphis to support the sanitation workers strike James Baldwin knew this when he wrote in his open letter to Angela Davis this is a nineteen freaking seventy said as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others they will never feel themselves sufficiently human sufficiently worthwhile to become responsible for themselves their leaders, their country, their children or their fate they will perish in their delusions and this is happening already all around us he saw that in 1970 it's screamingly and terrifyingly obvious now so I really am grateful to this group and to Mohammed for inviting us because we have to support all these causes, there is no difference between them and so keep doing what you're doing support these other causes, thank you for coming out here you're beautiful thank you David next I'd like to introduce Mohammed Abdi he will be speaking for the black perspective thank you guys all for being here today we humans come from different places speak different languages practice different cultures and traditions we all understand right from wrong but a great area does exist that area is our differences it can unite us if we make space for it and it can divide us if we don't create that space I did not join this fight to only fight my own side I don't think any of you joined this fight to only ultimately fight each other our enemies are different from one another yet they still are united even though it's unification rooted in hatred skin color will not unite us geographic location will not unite us religious beliefs will not unite us language will not unite us only love and solidarity will unite us love and solidarity will unite us because love and solidarity are only common denominator our difference in opinion will only create animosity which will create room for the fall of our love and solidarity in order to maintain our mutual understanding we must respect each other of course if those attributes such as our beliefs and languages create biased behaviors or linked to hatred that we must address that with dignity and respect but still we must understand we are all biased in one fashion or another within independence you will find unity when everyone way of life is respected you will find peace and a willingness to expand one's horizon ultimately everyone wants a better world not a world that's only good for them as a black man I want you to understand that the home for us didn't start when black lives matter hit your screen or newspaper nor did it stop after a white man got 22.5 years from earlier another one of us when we mourn for life everyone should feel that the life we want isn't any different from the one you want if anything life already be more challenging yet still a life we deserve to keep the moment we allow people to murder someone we fell love the moment we allow people to murder someone we fell solidarity when we let people get away with hatred another we lost our only common unity we let hatred happen for so long now we wonder why we're so disconnected from each other's pain when one of us is in pain we should all be angry we should all want to stop that pain create procedures to not let it happen ever again I'm here for you and of course I expect you to be here for me let's come together in the name of love and solidarity and I just want to say also in terms of the black perspective I just wanted to say that there's definitely been some sort of tension going on and I wanted to just come out and say that I do definitely apologize for any of my shortcomings because it is very important for me to acknowledge that I did behave negatively in the situation so I just want to clarify that I do apologize for that and moving forward I will work with anyone that is willing to stand by me in my fight for freedom and I will stand by anyone for their own freedom as well because it's not just one way love it is a two way love so if I'm going to receive love I'm going to give love and I appreciate every single one of you guys for being here today Big respect to Mohammed Abdi the director of the black perspective and you can tell that Mohammed has been doing some boots on the ground like really active work because the way he holds the mic when you're holding a bullhorn you got to get real on it so shout out to those who know about that community engagement if you definitely want to engage within the community through the black perspective please see the guy in the yellow hat Mohammed Abdi next on the mic for introduction is Mark Lease he's a patent lawyer in south Burlington he's a member of the national lawyers guild and served on NLG delegations to Gaza and Venezuela he has been a leading member of the campaign to stop the F-35s since 2010 he writes a regular column on cancelf35.substack.com and is speaking today for cancel the F-35 call for peace and security please welcome James Mark Lease hey James hey man James you're awesome homeless guy got we want to make sure that here's the mic talk about it there's a guy named Perry that got the living tar beat out of him over around the corner and he's a homeless guy a living tar about channel 17 it doesn't matter man I don't know how to work that camera and Perry got beat up last night and literally got beat up and he's a he's a fucking A man no man Perry got beat up by a bunch of goddamn college kids man so fuck the college kids I dropped the mic thank you alright so what I take from that is that everyone should really show everyone respect whether young or old whether in home or homeless respect should be given to everyone because we're all human beings so the amplified voice of the community it's necessary because we all need to hear what's going on even if it doesn't come out cross as cooth as everyone would like it's the voice of the community it's not that I mean it's very needed so give yourself a round of applause and back to James for the rest of the introduction thank you very much so 245 years ago today 56 revolutionaries issued a declaration calling for overthrowing British rule and instituting a government based on the consent but slaves did not benefit nor did the indigenous tribes nor did workers or farmers or women it was a revolution that secured power for property owners the one percent it took until 1967 when Martin Luther King identified the US government as quote the greatest purveyor of violence in the world he called for a new revolution to abolish racism poverty and militarism we need that revolution now the facts show climate catastrophe millions unhoused a starvation minimum wage student debt extreme income inequality tax loopholes for the rich a failed healthcare for profit system systemic racism mass incarceration cops killing with impunity money in elections killing our democracy torture US bombs just dropped on Gaza simple endless illegal wars based on lies and both political parties controlled by a vicious ruling class we need the revolution Martin Luther King called for here in Vermont to protect 3000 black brown immigrant and working class families including a thousand children and 3000 affordable homes that are targeted by the F-35 jets according to the Air Force's own report on the subject in that report the Air Force itself warned that the noise 115 decibel noise of the F-35 damaged hearing and impaired learning for children since the planes the F-35 jets arrived almost two years ago more than 600 people have gone online filled out a report describing pain injury and distress now the US Constitution requires that the training conducted by state national guards conform to the laws prescribed by Congress these laws and the military's own regulations protect civilians from such military training operations the hundreds of F-35 training flights each month in a city are illegal under our constitution and laws they are immoral they are unjust and they have to stop you cannot say you are protecting democracy while you are ignoring the town meeting votes that happened in Burlington in 2018 and in Winooski just four months ago Burlington called for cancelling the plan to base the F-35 Winooski experiencing the noise voted two to one to halt the training flights in any populated area including Winooski we need a revolution to restore the consent of the government this government in Montpelier is ignoring the town meeting votes ignoring the rights of the people to determine their future and their safety the government touts jobs instead they say jobs is more important than democracy but that's false we need jobs that protect the planet not F-35 jets that destroy it did you know that each 35 practice flight in Vermont burns 25 gallons of jet fuel every minute that's 1500 gallons an hour they're practicing with huge amounts of oil to make war for oil the F-35 is a planet killer on steroids and that's not even counting the bombs and missiles they're going to be dropping on civilians just as they've been dropping them in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria the Constitution reserves to each state the authority over the training of its National Guard the responsibility shifted from the federal government which under the Constitution is responsible for arming the militia that was the basing decision but now it's training the militia and the training under the Constitution is reserved to the states but when you hear the governor or when you hear the adjutant general they won't take that responsibility they blame the federal well do you know why because they know the F-35 is deeply unpopular we saw those votes in Burlington and Winooski and they are trying to to avoid responsibility but we know that the state of Vermont has the power to halt the F-35 training flights it's written right in the Constitution the US Constitution instead the governor is targeting civilians with F-35 jets in violation of law in opposition to town meeting votes we have an extremist governor obsequiously subservient to the military industrial complex we have a compliant legislative leadership that hasn't even put together a hearing to hear from the people in Winooski in Burlington in the neighborhood of South Burlington and in Williston they haven't heard a single voice from any of the people affected what's wrong with that legislative leadership where's Jill Kroinski when we need her she's the speaker the state is literally assaulting people planet, law and democracy itself with F-35 training flights in a densely populated area where it doesn't belong the governor and the entire state political and military leadership must be held to account so to make the new revolution we need solidarity among all of us we can't win on any issue without that solidarity but together we can win on all of them to preserve the planet to halt the coming wars to abolish the F-35 and to accomplish the revolution Martin Luther King called for first of all we need the same solidarity exhibited by those 56 who signed the declaration 245 years ago we need that revolution and we need that solidarity now thank you very much thank you partner not all that long ago I read with great irony that Burlington is making illegal the use of gasoline leaf blowers because they're too noisy what? so I'd like to call up Mohammed he's going to make some closing remarks I don't know where he went well uh yeah this is the conclusion so we have some food right down there we have some petitions that people can sign and also we're just going to make some space for anyone who wants to talk you can definitely come up and talk because we're here and in terms of the coalition itself we're just here to amplify people's voices so if anybody does want to speak about any initiative, any petition anything really you can come up and definitely go ahead and do that here we go all right awesome I'm a social justice activist and advocate I want to thank Mohammed and the black perspective they've actually really been there for me in my latest really entanglement with the law for the first time about a year ago I started advocating for a missing black man from Barry Vermont his name is Ralph Jean Marie he was reported missing two days after he reportedly went missing and that's about where the case is at a year later there's been no arrests no leads and the first person to be charged in relation to the case is me as ironic as that is and I'm sure I'd be happy to answer questions for anyone who has them after I'm not going to go into it too much here but I very publicly demanded accountability from the police chief and state's attorney at a press conference and put out there that I had confirmed a security video was obtained by police and for whatever reason they do not want the public to know that they have a security tape from the hotel Ralph went missing and I'll never understand that I would think anyone would just assume that in a missing person's case where the police have stated that Ralph has probably been murdered to me it's just kind of common sense that they would collect video tape from the hotel I will never understand why acknowledging that is so dangerous but it is so I was called into court under a secret inquest to reveal my sources and I refused because I feel very strongly that ma that the sources are at risk of danger and retaliation by the police and I believe that the reaction of the legal system really confirms that so for those of you who don't know what a secret inquest is it is a crazy scary tool so you are called into a legal proceeding which is secret and I don't know how this is legal but you're not allowed to have a lawyer in there with you so it is literally you a judge a stenographer and the prosecutor and you are asked to make decisions I was given less than 24 hours notice so I didn't have time to consult with an attorney and you know so I just did the best I could and I refused to answer questions and I was charged with contempt which in Vermont you can be jailed for up to 18 months without a trial and I just had my second hearing I'm covered by a journalist law which the prosecutor knew I was a journalist over a year ago and he still charged me which is illegal and you know this experience has really shown I've never experienced firsthand how systematic the system is to absolutely crush any dissent especially when you're advocating for a black man and I remember having this moment of clarity when I was on the witness stand during the secret inquest when I was told you will answer the question or I could send you to jail right now without a trial and I remember just having this moment of clarity where it's like this is what happens when you advocate for a missing black person this is what happens when you have the audacity to demand that the police do something about it and claim some sort of accountability and you know as my hearings are coming and going and I'm waiting for the final judgment and I had this reflection the other day when I was putting my shoes on to get ready to go to my last hearing and just like I'm extremely privileged I am extremely privileged 1. I'm white 2. I'm not going to lose my job if I go to jail my employers have been very supportive and they say go sit in jail for 18 months your job's going to be here for you 2 years ago when I was supporting myself I would not have the option I have a very supportive partner who's been very encouraging I've had the support of Muhammad and the black perspective I've had really good support from the activist community and just a good part of the community in general as the word's gotten out there I have a really good mental health care team that's really been an integral part of me keeping it together people don't have these privileges and this would have crushed a lot of people it is a lot of pressure to have a police department and a state's attorney and the state of Vermont seeking to destroy you and I never would have been able to appreciate the kind of pressure and I have more of an understanding now how people get stuck in the legal system and they never get out and you know in a way I have to thank and police chief Tim Bombardier down in Barrie because they've really strengthened me as an activist and they've really shown me the value of the people in my life and they've really shown me how strong I am and they've strengthened my resolve to hold them accountable I don't think that's the outcome they wanted but that's what they're getting and so to them I could just say thank you and thank you to all of you thank you for sharing your experience this is what the space is all about and being here in solidarity thank you for the alliances that are here the positive alliances evening and hearing this space is for amplification publicly it's a public space welcome to City Hall Park in Burlington but also I'd like to let everyone know that in the other parks and recreation spaces such as Battery Park and a lot of protests and demonstrations that happened last summer that really showed the differences in reference to standing against police brutality in reference to what was going on in other parts of the country but in Battery Park consistently we'll be having space for amplification also in reference to the support from the Neighborhood Planning Association shout out to wards one two and three of Burlington the Neighborhood Planning Associations gave opportunities for myself in the community to amplify the sound system that you're hearing this great use is a part of the community engagement support shout out to the Racial Justice Alliance group that's headed by Mark Hughes shout out to the black perspective this alliance this sound equipment that not to get into too deep of it I wish I could I was to be completely honest I've been waiting for a moment like this to stand on a soapbox of sorts and talk about an organization that was in the community for umpteen years that had the pandemic in the midst of it had the opportunity to amplify the awareness COVID awareness just basic COVID awareness in a underserved community specifically the community of Winooski the city of Winooski that has the most diverse community members like in the state of Vermont from all different parts of the of well you know I don't want to go into too much of the the clarity of detail because I like for the space to be held for people living in those experiences a big shout out to those who are from the community of Winooski the new American community but this organization was supposed to amplify during the COVID times of COVID it didn't happen and this is what it was supposed to be about just letting everyone know especially in that community things that are important process even in different languages so not to get too much into detail but anyone who wants to talk about it oh this is what the space is for for the introduction of the networking of further amplification but in battery park on a consistent for the last couple weeks we've been holding space for amplification for and that was supported by the racial justice alliance group and the neighborhood planning association they'll be the first of its kind but not the last of its kind community amplification called the neighborhood multicultural festival it's much more than a performance space it's just literally letting everyone in the community and those visiting the community know what's going on in the community and around the community and the space between Winooski and Burlington which desperately needs to happen big shout outs to Burlington high school Winooski high school right now there's a lot of summer programs and activities that's being ramped up post pandemic and the community it would be well vested to know about it and because that engagement builds everything that's what community is all about so this space is amplified for that shout out to everyone who's been able to grace the mic and amplify we're calling out one more time anyone to have this public space as a space for amplification I did hear a community member shout out to those who are of the community whether they are home housed or whether they're without homes letting us know about some of the actual violence that can happen in a public space and there's definitely been a violence in reference to those who are homeless literally catching up to what was said yes there's a big act of violence on right close by I think it's by the post office right it's still there in reference to the scene of it and that's disturbing I didn't know that until just now so just like it's been amplified the voice of those who would like to share it in a free public space that's that's what we welcome here so thank you and here's another voice of amplification I just wanted to say thank you to Lee for advocating for understanding what happened in the disappearance of Ralph Jean Marie and I think it's a great privilege that it takes to stand up in our community against the powerful institutions and I believe that experience because I've experienced systemic injustice as a union member working in a local social service agency and at that social service agency they target union activists very routinely and it is not something that you would expect in a public image and the professional signage that they sometimes put up a year ago I believe that they even put up a banner over root 7 that suggested that they believe that black lives matter but there's rampant racism within those institutions and when people speak out they're often targeted and marginalized and it's a very uncomfortable experience so having been through that experience and then also advocating for all of us in our community at the legislative level and having seen how the actions and behavior of legislators is all tangled up with powers that be in our society and that if you go into those spaces and you are upset about what's not happening in those spaces that people work to try to quiet you and silence you I've been yelled at many times by legislators and I've been yelled at inside of this building by legislators and I've been asked to be quiet by our legislators so we're done being civil and we are here to hear people and I did gain the skills that I demonstrated here earlier and you can too so we are here to end police brutality we're here to defund police we are here to abolish the police we are here to make sure that the resources are spent on humanizing people and welcoming people in our community seeing everyone and looking at the level of human need that isn't met and putting our resources there I see someone's quite eager to speak but one thing that hasn't yet been said and addressed is that the Vermont National Guard isn't just damaging our hearing and damaging our brains and damaging children's development with the F-35 planes the Vermont National Guard has been poisoning our waterways with PFAS chemicals so those chemicals can be found in the body of every single person who can hear my voice right now this is not separate from you and the Vermont National Guard was recently exempted by our state legislature from any accountability for stopping using those chemicals even though alternatives exist so they use those chemicals in the firefighting phones that they use for drills and they say that that's necessary and when we ask them why is there such a high rate of cancer in Vermont why are there so many people dealing with major health challenges that don't really have an explanation and then the institutions that we set up are silencing activists and the courts are intimidating people who speak out on behalf of people who are oppressed and then once in a while you will hear someone in the city council here say they believe in the system but what is it that you believe in thank you very much ok so I'm just going to hand the microphone to Mohammed to wrap up do you know if people want to be heard so go ahead real quick what is it you believe in I mean if you suggest that there pesticides in the water then you have to go to the water and figure out what the pesticides what was the chemical in the water but yeah so like what do you believe in so wow it echoed it bounced off those walls and it bounced off those walls and then it bounced right back to me and I said you know so here I am standing in the middle of a beautiful street in the middle of beautiful commerce and he shut the camera off and I said why did he shut the camera off I mean aren't I just talking to you so so what I was getting to the moral of the story was that I would ask what is the benefit of good talk Mohammed for the closing remarks thank you for everybody for being a part of this even in your listening this is important to have community engagement in a public space too so shut out one more time alright yeah thanks all for coming I appreciate all the speakers so I just wanted to say that the coalition for Solidarity is definitely still accepting other organizations that are interested in being a part of it so reach out to me or Jimmy what we're doing right now is we're collecting all the platforms for different organizations so that we can get back to the members of the coalition so that we can be completely connected and support each other's content and after that we're just going to go based off of whatever people want to support if there's an initiative that people want an event or demonstration on March we're going to help put that together so that's what this coalition is for so thank you all for being here, appreciate it have a good one it's a good day enjoy the day as you all thank everyone who's been speaking and made their voices heard have a great day everyone once again thank you for the racial justice alliance group, the black perspective and also the community for being represented here today


Like Sarah, you caused his friends to die. Hello everyone, welcome to another video. Now continuing on with these little response videos here, I saw this article come up and I thought, well, with the current theme that I'm running here on the channel, I thought I had to respond to it. It's from the Daily Mail and it says, uh, Leap Hog. Clever pig escapes slaughter by leapfrogging out of a trailer heading to the abattoir on the backs of two bigger porkers. Before owners kept him as a pet. The desperate animal was one of the three being transported by Sarah Allen from her small holding to a slaughter house 11 miles away. But Sarah 29 was dumbstruck when after arriving to drop off the livestock, she realized there were only two in her trailer. She started a large-scale search team involving friends and neighbors back home in Langtree Devon to locate the porker on the run. Thankfully, a local farmer then posted on Facebook to report a curious pig wandering one of his fields. It says, after claiming the incident showed the animal was destined to avoid the abattoir, Sarah, her husband Stuart, two children Archie, six and Phoebe, who is three, well, really young kids, have named him Milton and are keeping him as a family pet. Very interesting, isn't it? So they put a large-scale search team out for this pig. They've now called Milton, who they were going to send to be executed in a slaughter house. Now, these other two pigs, well, she just went through and slaughtered them. So they'll eat the other two pigs or sell their body parts. But this one, Milton, did a little trick for these people and they think, oh, wow, Milton's special. We better not kill Milton. But the other two, they're not special, so we'll just butcher them to death. What you see here, what I see here, is like, when an animal does something that human light thinks is favorable, or like they desperately plead for their lives, sometimes not at all times, escape a slaughter house truck, humans will be like, well, this pig here is special.   Or like a very special pig. The rest of them, they are just porkers who we can throw in gas chambers main way they're killed in the UK and Australia, a predominant method around the world, disgusting gas chambers, or electrically clamped and stabbed to death. It just, I just don't understand why like something like this would happen. And they wouldn't just be like, well, animals want to live. We should stop using them for their bodies, killing them, farming them to butcher them. And maybe we should just extend this compassion for Milton the pig consistently. I just don't know how people don't see that.  Yeah, Milton escaped. But what about the others? What about the others?  And I want them to stop funding the industries that butcher and kill animals on mass as well. So let's continue. Look at Milton, look at dad face. Look at him. How could you send him to a slaughterhouse? Probably really young as well. Sarah and her husband, Stuart, believe the pig was too small to climb over the back of the trailer himself. They think in desperation, he must have used his friends to propel him outside of the trailer on the way to the abattoir. Why would he be so desperate to escape a truck? I thought like animals are so dumb, they don't know what's going on. They don't, they have no awareness of anything bad about to happen to them. They just waltz on into the slaughterhouse and end up packaged in a supermarket shelf. There's nothing horrible that happens along the way. They don't struggle in fear in a gas chamber. They don't see blood and witness their friends being slaughtered beforehand and just have a horrible, brutal death. But for some reason, Milton, since something was up maybe, didn't like to be in the back of a truck. I know pigs, they get very anxious animals and thought, I'm not going to stand in this truck for any longer. I'm going to try to escape and was desperate enough to jump out of a moving vehicle, which is crazy. Crazy desperation, which shows the animals are willing to harm themselves to try to escape what they fear might be coming. Now, I don't know if Milton knew Milton was going to a slaughterhouse. Sometimes when there's larger packs of animals, they might see a few animals go and never come back. And maybe they might think, well, where did they go? But maybe Milton just didn't like being in the back of the truck. Maybe Milton had a premonition. I don't really know. Let's keep going. Sarah says the porker has saved himself and is now destined to stay on the farm. She said it was clearly a mad day. On the way to the abattoir, we were saying how smoothly had it all gone. Wow. So they're probably feeling a little bit of anxiety taking these pigs to the the abattoir because all they have to do is drive them there, drop them off, wipe their hands, and that's it. Like most farmers don't witness their animals being killed. I know that for a fact. Some farmers do, but most farmers don't. Even farmers that have been farming for years and years and years don't follow their animals that they've cared for. Usually on these humane farms that they've cared for, and they think, oh, we've done a really good job here. High humane welfare standards, but they don't follow them into the slaughterhouse to watch them, the fear in their eyes as they're breathing their last breath and having a knife stabbed into their neck. They don't do that, do they? So we got in to join the queue for the abattoir, and my husband said, Sarah, there's only two. I said, don't be silly. There can't be two. I was in shock. Sarah has three pigs on her small holding each year with a view to share the meat out between her friends and family. Share the meat out. This is a calling in this animal, a porker. I would just waiting in line at the abattoir, an abattoir is a murder factory where animals are butchered against their will and they have this fancy French word called abattoir. So she does it every year to eat the bodies of these animals she cares for. How's the disconnect? You know, how is the disconnect? So it says the mother of two also keeps 16 chickens and three ducks, but insisted these are pets. So she keeps 16 chickens probably to use them for their eggs, I am assuming. The ducks, I don't know what they're going to do with them. Maybe let them live. Maybe they have selective compassion here. It seems like they do because just look at the Milton situation. Sarah was relieved when a farmer from the village of Milton, Damarill posted on a Facebook community page reporting the missing pig. It's the joy of social media she added. Well, such a joy that they found Milton, seeing as they were going to eat his dismembered body anyway.  But you know, they're so glad they found Milton. We were out for hours looking for him. He managed to come straight out of the trailer and onto a 60 mile an hour road. Wow, very desperate. He's then gone straight in the field next to the road. We don't tend to name them, but a lot of people have said maybe we should name him Milton after where he was found.  You just want to raise them, call them porcas, just say, look, they're meat. These are meat. We've got this small holding superhumane looking after these animals living off the land. And we don't want to give them a name because then we would feel even more guilty for sending them to get executed. So look at this beautiful picture with Sarah. Sarah, probably a nice person, just thinks she's, I don't know, doing what is natural or something like this are doing, following the farming tradition that animals have to die so we can eat them. Maybe Sarah doesn't know that she can be perfectly healthy on a plant based diet and doesn't need to execute these animals to eat their flesh.   It says, and since they were already at the abattoir when she realized one was missing, the other two pigs were left to face the music, which Sarah says has left the third feeling down. Oh, but it hasn't left Sarah feeling down.   Hey, is that how you do it? Absolutely absurd. And, you know, yes, I'm being condescending because Sarah and her family should not be raising animals to stab them in the throat. It's immoral. I care more about the animals here than I do about, you know, the feelings of Sarah here. I just wish that they were just more consistent and didn't like what human beings are. They're so it's a human supremacy.  The animals who are in the world and aware of the world should have the right to live and should have the right not to be exploited and killed.  You will be called Milton and you will live. Dog can live. Chicken will be killed. Cow will be exploited for dairy.   This pig did a little magic trick for us. Oh, we feel bad for this one. We'll let this one live. You know, it's just selective compassion and human supremacy. The other two pigs have gone to the abattoir. So he's a little bit sad about his friends. She said, well, they've gone to be viciously murdered against their will in a slaughterhouse. And their stomach has been cut out on the floor. Their tongues have been cut out. Their eyes have been cut out. Their face has been skinned. Their body has been dismembered into pieces and you'll be eating it. Maybe you've been making sausages out of the other pigs in testines.  Stop calling it an abattoir to make yourself feel better. This is a euphemism. People say humane slaughter and abattoir and, you know, all of these words that sort of hide people from the reality of what's going on there. Like go in there and face those pigs as they are desperately trying to escape whatever method they're being murdered with in there. And just watch it and watch it. And just ask yourself, if it's so humane, would you like to put yourself through it? Would you like to put your family member through that? Absolutely not. Completely needless murder here. I sat up with him last night. He misses his friends.  Like Sarah, you caused his friends to die. You caused his friends to die. And you sat up with Milton last night because he was sad. You know, none of this needs to happen. Like none of this had to happen.  Maybe we will stop slaughtering pigs and maybe we'll have a little animal sanctuary here and we'll just be vegan. You know, like that's an option too.  You didn't have to kill any of them. It's just, I just can't believe that Sarah has got enough of a kind heart to sit up with Milton because Milton was sad. But yet you destined the two other pigs, which you spent probably about six months with, to a slaughterhouse to be murdered. I mean, it's just crazy. It's crazy. So I sat up with him last night. He misses his friends, but he's safe and well.  I think this piggy is destined to stay with us. Oh, so you decide, do you, Sarah?   So you can't really kill Milton now, can you?  But, you know, you could have a change of heart again. And just in the dark, just sending Milton down. You might get a bit hungry.  I mean, look, it just doesn't, nothing really surprises me anymore. You know what I mean? Like, to be honest, it's like, like, you see people like so vehemently against the Yulin and then they sit down to steak. Like they'll, they'll chastise people in Yulin, China. Oh my God. I can't believe you ate a dog.    Like, oh my God. So here, I'm going to, I'm going to, I want to watch this with you guys. I don't know if you've seen this. It's pretty well known now, especially in the vegan community. But a lot of you aren't vegan. A lot of you haven't seen this, but I want to show you what it looks like when the pig desperately escapes from a slaughterhouse truck. There you go.   How sad is that? Look at that. How brave. How brave of this animal liberated themselves, liberated themselves from slaughter. Absolutely crazy. This pig probably ended up in a sanctuary too, I think. I'm not too sure. Let me know what the people in the background were saying, guys, if you speak whatever language that was. It sounded like German. I'm not too sure. But this is what it looks like. Animals desperately trying to save themselves for where they got. They might be so afraid. They don't actually know where they're going. It might be terrifying in the truck. But when pigs arrive to a slaughterhouse and they can see the bloods, they can smell the scent of fear from the other animals. I think pigs release some type of something in their urine that alerts other pigs. That's some some dangers ahead. And you know, so it's a terrifying place. I'll just put yourself in the animal's position.   That's it or being prodded into a gas chamber and you know, lower down into a dungeon filled with gas that burns your eyes and makes you suffocate. Horrible, horrible way to go. So any guys, guys? Um, yeah, I thought that article like Sarah and family, like, is this just do you really care about this pig? Or did you maybe you did have a bit of compassion in your heart for this one pig?   And sending all these others to be slaughtered and eating their bodies afterwards. Like the disconnect has to be a lot more if you're actually raising the animal, looking after them, seeing them every morning. The kids probably love the pigs. What do you tell the kids? What happened to the pigs? Oh, they had to go to the abattoir and we're going to eat them kids. It's like you're teaching the kids cannibalism. Like, like, do you think that that's really like a good message to send the kids?  You know what I mean?   But right now we want some bacon. Send them to the slaughterhouse. You know, it's such an inconsistent worldview to instill into children. And you wonder why people, you know, grow up confused and have cognitive dissonance.    And these people over here, they're evil for shooting the elephant and shooting the rhinoceros for their horns. It's such a needless thing, taking an elephant tusk or the horn of a rhinoceros. But me having this bacon sandwich is completely fine because we love eating pigs.  Oh, wait a second. What about the, you know, tens of thousands of edible plant foods out there? And all the millions of vegans who are living perfectly healthy lives. And, you know, anyways, guys, I'm going to leave it there because I could talk about this all day. But let's hope Sarah and her family wake up. Milton, like you could easily start a sanctuary called Milton's Mission, you know. And, you know, just rescue animals and look after them and teach your kids, you know, kindness, compassion, justice and respect. You know what I mean? And help us create a vegan world instead of hindering it with this, you know, these small holdings who are murdering innocent beings. Parts of your family, these pigs were a part of your family. And you sent them to be murdered so you could eat them. Crazy world. See you all in the next video, guys. Peace.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you the difference between write and append mode available in file handling in C programming. Before starting, you can note how you can search my YouTube channel. You can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube search bar. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos here. Now, first I am going to demonstrate you the use of w-mode and then I will be discussing the use of a-mode. So first I am including a header file stdio.h, another header file stdlib.h. Then I am going to define main function. Inside main function, I am declaring an integer variable that is n. Then I am going to declare a file pointer with the help of file data type. This file data type is predefined. Now I have to open a file by calling fopen function. So here I am passing the name of file that is number.txt and I am using w-mode. So I am trying to open number.txt file with w-mode. So in case of w-mode, if this file is not present in the system, that is number.txt, w-mode will create this file automatically in the system. Now I have to check whether fp has received address of number.txt or not. So if it is not receiving the address, then file pointer must be equal to null. So then I can print the message error cannot open file. So this message will be displayed on output screen and then I can call exit function. So this exit function terminates execution of the program. If file pointer is receiving a particular address, then this if condition will be false. Then I can type another statement. So I am writing printf which will display the message enter a number. So this message will be displayed on output screen to receive the number from user. I am calling scanf. So the entered number will be stored inside n variable through scanf function. Now I am going to write this value n into the file number.txt. So I am calling fprintf and I am passing fp comma slash n, sorry, percenty slash n and then n. So this way the value of n will be stored inside fp. fp is pointing to number.txt. So I can say value of n will be stored inside number.txt through this f printer function. So after completion of f printer function operation, I can call fclose. So fclose function closes the opened file. So file is opened through this fp pointer. So I have passed this pointer so that file can be closed and then return 0. So you can notice that I have used w mode in this program. First I have to check whether this number.txt is available in the system or not so that we can see whether it is created automatically or not. So location of this file will be ctcnbin. So first I have to open c drive then tc folder and then bin folder. So I have already opened bin folder. So you can see the path I have first opened c drive then tc folder and then bin folder. Now I am pressing n. So you can see the file which starts from letter n available here. Only four files are present and number.txt is not available here. Now I am going to execute this code. You can see it is asking for a number. I am entering 10. So I have entered 10 and after entering 10 nothing is displayed on output screen. Now we have to check bin folder again whether number.txt is created or not. So you can see here number.txt is created. Now I am going to open this file. You can see it is having 10 as input. So the 10 which I have entered on output screen it is perfectly stored in this number.txt file. Now again I am executing this code. This time I am going to enter 20. So again I have entered 20 and it is not showing anything after that. So moving to bin folder. Now again I am opening number.txt file. You can see 10 is replaced with 20. So this is the effect of w mode. In case of w mode, whenever you execute the program, file is open, sorry, whenever you execute the program using w mode, every time whenever you execute the program it erases the previous contents of the file and it places the new content into the file. So first I have executed this program then I entered 10. So number.txt was having 10 as the data. Then when second time I have executed the program I entered 20. So w mode replaced that 10 with 20 because w mode stores the latest output in the file. Previous data will be erased, sorry, previous data automatically erased while you are using w mode. Now if you want to store all previous data into the file then in place of w you can prefer a mode. So a means append. So this is the advantage of append mode. Whenever you execute the program the result will be stored inside the file automatically. So now I am going to execute this program twice. So I am executing this program. I am entering 30. So this time I have executed this program only first time. Again I am executing this code and I am entering 40. So first time I entered 30, second time I entered 40. Now moving to the bin folder I am opening number.txt. So its previous value was 20. Now see it is having 20, 30 and 40. So because I am using a mode. The previous data is preserved in this file and the new data is appended at the end of file. So if you want to preserve all the previous data's which are available in a particular file then you can prefer a mode. And if you want that previous data must be erased then you can prefer w mode. So this is the difference between w and a mode. w mode keeps only the latest data or you can say latest output of the program whereas a mode stores all the previous data as well as new data generated by the c program. So this is the difference between both the modes w and a. I hope you have understood both the modes and their differences. I have demonstrated you both practically. So you can implement this in your system so that you can understand how w and a modes are working in c programming with the help of file handling. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can search my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube search. The channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos there. Thank you for watching this video.


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What I look for in a photograph is always something that moves you in one way or another. Whether it's surprise or whether it's an emotion, it has to be something that takes you out of the ordinary and gives you intellectual or emotional response. I've been doing the APAD Fair for 25 years and one of the great things about the APAD Fair is the variety of work that you see, both chronologically and in terms of style. The genre of portraiture in photography is, to some extent, related to the technology and development of photography. The idea of a good photograph was something that was very painterly. As the medium progressed and certainly where we are now, it's definitely branched out into being a much more original medium. What people are doing now, which is interesting in photography and can also apply to any of the arts, is something which adds to the history of the medium. So, just as you could say in painting, once you've got to impressionism and abstraction, the next thing to do is conceptual work. It's the same with photography. Once there have been beautiful painterly likenesses, the next thing is how do you do something that builds on that changes and adds something to photography to make it interesting? What makes a photograph a portrait and not just a picture is that a portrait is something that is subjective, something where the artist has brought their own particular point of view to picturing that person. And a picture is something that is objective. Portraiture seems to be very much slanted towards images of women, so it's always interesting for me when you find a portrait of a man which is as powerful or as good as a portrait of a woman. What makes things interesting in photography is leaps of imagination that take you to new places that you wouldn't think of before. Venacular photographs can be great, but they're great because of the perception that we bring to them. What is specific to a photographic portrait is that in most cases it is a record of a single instant that is a fraction of a second. How that fraction of a second is chosen is something that is unique to photography. In the case of a sculpture or a painter, the image is created over time, but in photography it's created in a very, very finite moment and that gives it a quality that's different from the other mediums. The medium of photography happens to be a very open and a universal one. It's parenthetically interesting that I think of all the branches of art. Photography is the one that has been most open to women, to people of any minority. It's a very democratic medium.