I'm happy to be here to share our experience from Cambodia. So first, let's start with an overview of the disease and the treatment. So hepatitis C can be acute, but not most of patients become chronic. And then the chronic infection lasts a lifetime, at least a serious labor problem including cirrhosis or labor cancer. And there are six genotypes. In Cambodia, we mainly have genotype 6 and genotype 1. And then there is the revolutionary treatment options in recent layers coming out. It's direct acting antivirus. The cure rate can be as high as 95%. So in Cambodia, we use a softened dye combination. It's pan genotyping, it's efficacious, it's safe, and the patient needs to receive a treatment for three or six months and to reach the 95% of cure rate. However, DAAs in resource constraint countries, the experience is limited and a significant proportion of patients lack of access to treatment. So with this background, MSF launched the hepatitis C clinic in Pre-Cosmic Hospital in Phnom Penh in September 2016. Very quickly, the clinic was overwhelmed by patient load and was unable to face this situation because of the space constraints. And what was even worse was the waiting time to get a result. It took one week for serology test result, two months of rare load, and three months for genotype. So it was decided to put a quota on new patients and to prioritize to treat F3 to F4 patients. But still, waiting lists continue growing. And we quickly, the waiting list increased to over 3,500 patients. And we finally had to stop to screen new patients until we finished the backlog until July. So you can see from this graph, at the beginning we had a, okay, we had 50 visits per day and they quickly grow to more than 200 visits per day and with only four doctors. Okay, let's see what was our model at the beginning. This was based on the easel guideline in 2016. You can see the visits, including the labs, counseling, consultations, and it allowed us to provide some services for the cirrhosis complications management. So from screening to cure, patients need to make 16 visits. And a turnaround time between the first visit and treatment initiation was about three months. So keep in mind, we have 3,500 patients waiting for the treatment, and at least this continued growing. So we had to figure out a better way to serve our patients, faster but without jeopardizing the quality of care. So first question, can we simplify the test algorithm? Can we stop genotyping? So we have the majority of the patients with genotype one and genotype six. Genotype one was a very well studied about the efficacy of soft-dac combination, but we knew a little about genotype six. So we demonstrated the effectiveness of a soft-dac on genotype six. And from then on, we decided we can safely stop genotyping. Genotyping was taken three months to obtain and the cost 70 US dollar. And then furthermore, we did the operational research on gene expert virulote on genotype six. So we were able to switch from central testing to gene expert virulote point of care. So instead of waiting for one to two weeks for the result, the patient can get the result in one day and we save 80 dollar. And we also switched from ELISA to SD-BioLin on capillary blood. It's even making the screening faster and easier. So by all that, the diagnosis of virumic patients can be obtained in one day instead of three months and the cost of the screening decreased from 170 US dollar to less than 20 US dollar. And also adapt our criteria for endoscopy and ultrasound to simplify the algorithm even more. And then finally, we decided to keep Fibroscan because we find that Fibroscan result is strongly correlated with failure and the complicated cases. Also Fibroscan is fairly easy to perform and it's much easier to use to define Fibroscan stage than using lab tests. So Fibroscan state. And then we did more changes in patient management with separate screening from treatment activity to have a better, to have a more efficient patient flow. And we did task shifting from doctor to nurse or pharmacist and we removed less clinical, meaningful visits. So now we finally reach our current simplified model. If you don't remember how many visits our patients need to do, on the top was the full model and to compare with the full model, the bottom is the current simplified model. So first visit, second visit, third, fifth, and sixth, and that's it. So we, with a total of six visits, including one medical consultation. And so we reduced the visits from 16 to six and the doctor visits now is only one with a simplified model. The patients only need to see the doctor at the initiation. So we reduced the turnaround time between the first visit and the treatment initiation become less than one week and it can be even within a couple of days. What about an impact on treatment as we made such big change? So we can see the treatment initiation per month. We increase from 150 maximal with four doctors to not over 400 patients with the three doctors. And you can see there's like low bars because at that point, we had a near stock rupture. So we had to limit the number of initiation. And then the median days between screening and initiation reduced from more than three months to nowadays less than one week. And the impact on patient safety and outcome. Serious adverse event occurrence is very low. And when the adverse event occur, the majority are due to cirrhosis complications. And minor side effects are rare, it facilitates good adherence. And sustained a very response at 12 weeks after treatment to finish was 69%. I consider we have more than 80% of patients with advanced five versus. So after hearing our experience, actually on the way of simplification, we are trying to balance the two questions. Expanding treatment to all or managed cirrhosis, treat the cirrhotic. What would you choose when you see these two options? So what if I say by manage the cirrhosis and treat the cirrhotic, your team need to do 5,000 ultrasounds and 2,500 endoscopies next year. And as a consequence, your team capacity to treat patients decrease from 25,000 to 5,000. But in the same time, you are able to diagnose 300 cancer patients and perform 1,250 ligatures, which might be life saving. Also by doing that, you actually manage to reduce the number of, reduce the number of F4 patients that you're treating from 7,500 to 5,000.  So at this point, what would you choose? Okay, so from our experience, we had some lesson learned. First, simplification is essential in delivering hepatitis C treatment for the patients in resource limited contacts. And care quality can be maintained through simplification. And the benefit gained from simplification and scale up treatment all the way the potential benefit of cirrhosis management model. Thanks for the team. Thanks, everybody.


Ahoy Hoy and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor. And today we are going to see a trailer for the 8K contest entry that I just dropped along with all of my co-authors, including Harry Blank, Billith, and placeholder McDockdrit. The trailer here has got voice acting from me and music and video created by Billith. If you want to see the 8K entry itself, there will be a link in the description below at the very top. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. Linda Berry. Games are the mind's way of creating distance between our internal world and the outside world. Over a long enough period of time, that is a necessary part of retaining your sanity. The object of each game is different. A set of rules agreed upon beforehand to enhance the fun. But the object of this game will be to pocket the 8 ball.


They're on page to win 102 games. That's not a good year. That's a great year. But you're having a great year. The same season, the Red Sox are having a legendary year. And you're probably going to have to play a one game wild card to meet the Red Sox at a best of five. The one game wild card is going to stink. Because it's right there for you to completely blow 102 win season. Right there for you. But if you win that, you hit the reset button and you get another chance to beat the Red Sox. That's the way you have to look at it. You don't know who you're going to play in the wild card. You don't know where it's going to be played. You don't even know for sure if you're going to stay in the wild card. You got to keep winning. That's why another narrative that's kind of a head scratcher to me. Well, the Yankees should give up on catching the Red Sox and just get their pitching set for the wild card. Wait a second. You try to win every single game. They don't even have the wild card sewn up yet. They don't have the wild card game at Yankee Stadium sewn up yet. So while the Oakland Athletics are playing and the Mariners just swept the Astros in Houston in a four game set. So pump the brakes on. Get the pitching ready. You don't have to start getting the pitching ready on August 13th. That's laughable.  And in your dream scenario what you do is you shave the Red Sox lead down to six. What does that mean? Well, this is what it means. You have six games left with them. And then you grab back control where you can dream that you can sweep all six. To think. Well, let's give up on catching the Red Sox because we can't do it. We'll just get the pitching ready. You have to get one guy ready. And we don't even know who that guy is. So how would they get their pitching ready? Two months ago it was a slam dunk that if you were playing a wild card game you want Louis Severino pitching that game. You don't know that now. We'll see how it pitches tonight against the Mets. He hasn't pitched great in six starts. And that's the honest truth. He has not pitched great in six starts. Now before Saturday's debacle, or Friday, losing track of the days, you would have thought that Tanaka could be the guy. That would pitch a wild card game.  Jay Hap has won both games he started for the Yankees. Lance Lin is looking really good. So if you gave up on catching the Red Sox everybody, it's so silly. Who are you setting up to start the wild card game? You don't even have that information yet.  You might have to win the last game of the year against the Red Sox. Not to catch the Red Sox, but to have the wild card game at Yankee Stadium. So you're not gonna throw your fifth best pitcher in that game. I think you throw your best pitcher to have that game at Yankee Stadium. And then you make do with your second best pitcher in the wild card game. Can't afford to travel 3,000 miles to play that game and then travel 3,000 miles back to Boston to start the American League Division Series. That would be playoff death. You'd be setting yourself up to lose. And one other thing Yankee fans have to be a little concerned about as we move forward here. You do not want to play the wild card game against the Astros. You played that game before in 2015. And that was before they had Justin Verlander. And that was before they had Garrett Cole. You want to stay away from the Astros. You know, all the Astros gonna win the, what, really? The Astros are banged up. They don't know when they're getting back Al Tuve. They don't know when they're getting back Brian McCann. Springer might be back maybe tomorrow. They just got back Correa who looks lost, but he'll get it back. And they just got swept by Oakland, by Seattle. So Oakland could overtake Houston. And then you want to play the Astros in that one game set. The whole season and what it's standing on went haywire four days in Boston. Weird, but they didn't show up. And I'm sorry, talk about excuses, whatever you want. It's a different team without Judge and without Sanchez. Really different. These are things that you have to be concerned about. Although they have the second best record in baseball, this team is built to win the World Series. So how do they get there? And I will tell you this, before we take a quick break and then we'll take all your calls. You don't get there by saying, well, let's give up on the American League East. That's not smart. Give up, so that means you could lose some games now? No, you're in a precarious position. You can't lose games so you could set up your pitching and setting up your pitching for what? You have no idea who's gonna start that or you want to start that game.  Kind of a tryout camp to see who Aaron Boone and Larry Rothschild wants to hand the season to. Cause that starter better be great. Cause you might be putting a hundred and 10 win season on the line.


Dear students, in this module we are going to talk about different types of social interaction and one of the important type of social interaction is non-verbal interaction or non-verbal form of communication. Non-verbal communication refers to the usage of gestures, facial expressions, body language to convey the meaning and emotions. As you know, human beings are endowed with the capacity of emotions and feelings and they do express using the different symbols and gestures. So non-verbal communication can be intentional or unintentional and can have a significant impact on social interaction and its relationships. When we talk about interaction or communication, language is an important aspect but it is not necessary that the language is the medium of communication. We communicate through different symbols and gestures. So non-verbal communication can vary across cultures and can sometimes lead to misunderstandings and conflict. In all cultures, different symbols or gestures are used and sometimes one gesture is perceived differently in different cultures. For example, just waving the hand could be understood differently in different cultures. Similarly, pointing out a finger is also understood differently in different cultures. Similarly, in Pakistan, if we continuously talk to the opposite gender with eye contact, it is considered kind of disrespect. But if we don't maintain this eye contact with the opposite gender in Western cultures, it is considered disrespect. So if we take the example from Pakistan, we can see that examining the use of non-verbal communication in Pakistani culture and its role in social interaction and relationship is a food for thought. If you think about it and see which non-verbal interaction patterns are used in your local cultural context, such as medium of communication, eye contact, facial expressions, hand gestures, body posture. You can analyze all these things by thinking and observing them.


Just because you have the time to do something doesn't mean you have the energy for it, I had to say to someone recently. I think it's a great self-care piece of advice to manage your energetic bandwidth in a more proactive self-care way. Self-care sometimes being more picky and choosy where you spend your limited amount of energy that you have. So today to someone you need to say, I know I have the time, but I don't have the energy for that right now. So the answer is no today. Create a boundary and protect your energetic bandwidth, your energetic bank account because it's limited and some people only want to make withdrawals and they're never going to make deposits. I hope they have you guys today. Cheers!


So in this video let's have a quick look at an example of a convolutional neural network. So we've discussed some of the types of layers that go inside of a convolutional neural network and what the idea is behind this convolutional operation and that we're really talking about images here. Images really work well when we talk about convolutional neural networks. So we're going to use one of the datasets that is available right inside of QRS and that's the MNIST dataset. I'm quite sure you've heard of that.  They're all in monochrome, in other words black and white, and they're all labeled. So someone wrote an 8 and a 7 and a 6, I suppose, all sorts of people and those were just labeled by human beings as such. So let's import that and we're just going to assign that to a computer variable called MNIST and what we are loading is this dataset underscore MNIST and that dataset already has, it's already been divided into a training and test set, so with these built in datasets we don't have to worry too much about that. So all we have to do is just assign four computer variables and as usual I'm going to call mine X underscore train, Y underscore train, X underscore test, Y underscore test and we see there that it's MNIST and then as always with our little dollar sign that's shift of four on my keyboard and then train because the training set and then the feature which is actually images X and then it's the labels Y. So we're going to do that both for the training and the test set. So if we look at the dimensions just of X train we notice 60,000, 2828, so what does this mean? Certainly this is something larger than we've seen before. In other words we usually just had the feature variable and there were say 70 rows or 10,000 rows comma so many columns and the columns those were the number of features. But this indicates that we have 60,000 samples of 28 by 28 and that is what these images look like, they're little grayscale images, they're 28 pixels by 28 pixels so tiny little squares and then each value is just between 0 and 255 as we saw before and that's just the brightness value. So let's record those as just as computer variables I'm going to call it image underscore IMG underscore rows and IMG underscore columns that's just the pixel dimension because what we need to do we need to reshape this as a tensor in a format that our model is going to expect because what is missing from this 60,000, 2828 is the number of channels. So we have to add that. So let's use the array underscore reshape function so it takes extrane as our argument and then we have to pass in the number of rows in extrane so we use C function and then the in row function of extrane then image rows, image columns comma one. So we add that comma one at the end just to show that there's one channel and we're going to do exactly the same for, we're going to do exactly the same for the test set there and then we're just going to store input shape because as we pass our first layer or our first data into this model we just need to know the input shape and the input shape is going to be 28 by 28 by 1. That is the size of the images and comma one there's one channel and this is the way it is set up if you use other frameworks some of them might use the one or the number of channels first and then the row and column size but here inside of KRS using tensor flow back end it is image width, image height basically comma one or comma three in case it was a color image with three channels. If we now look at the dimensions of extrane we know that it's 60,000, 2828, 1. Next up we have to of course we have to normalize our data sets and because each value that's just between zero and 255 we can just divide by the maximum which is 255 so that's going to bring everything in this zero to one range for us nicely. I'm going to create a computer variable called numclasses is 10 because I'm going to use the two underscore categorical to do the one hot encoding remember they're 10 digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and we, so they're 10 classes and the way that we use two categorical as we're going to pass the variable there that contains our labels white train and white test comma the number of classes in this instance they're 10 so that if we have a look at this first example in the training set its label was and it starts getting coming from zero so 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so one hot encoding for the first little image being a 5. So let's create our model and as always it's just going to be a sequential model so we pass we're going to create a computer variable called model it's going to be a Keras underscore model underscore sequential we're going to pass a two dimensional convolutional layer next 2D because we have it is a 2D image it has two dimensions in other words it has a height and width and height and we're going to do 16 filters of 3 by 3 each so we have these nine values that are going to pass over our 28 by 28 but we have 16 of them so you can imagine we're going to run through it once and we're going to have a slightly smaller image our resultant image that we spoke about before but we're going to stack 16 of them behind each other if you want to visualize that we're still going to use an activation function the rectified linear unit and now we put that input shape in the vase which was 28 by 28 by 1 next up is going to be a max pooling layer so that's going to take a little 2 by 2 blocks and it's just going to take the maximum value out of that then we're going to have some dropout we can have dropout layers here as well and we're going to drop a quarter of of the values and then we're going to flatten so that 28 by 28 this is going to be flattened in the 756 just single vector because we have to pass this to a to a multi-layer perceptron a densely connected neural network and the end so our first dense layer there is just going to have 10 units or the activation function is always real you we're going to have a 50% dropout and then another dense layer which is going to be just 10 units because that is what we want our output we have the number of classes is 10 and the activation they remember softmax and if we run the summary on that we note that we have 27,320 learnable parameters and that is really not bad if we consider the size of our input vector 28 times 28 now this is a I'm going to say straight up this is a horrible model this is not going to do probably not going to do very well and definitely add a second convolutional layer there maybe add the number of the number of filters there or the kernels and then certainly have more than 10 units of my first dense layer there if you really want to do some good accuracy but this is just to demonstrate the different layers that we have spoken about compiling that we're going to always have the loss the categorical cross entropy the optimizer I chose here just for argument's sake is the delta optimizer and the metric is going to be accuracy we'll make a batch size of 128 and we'll run through 12 epochs and then pass the fit function pass the model to the fit function and have a validation split of 0.2 so if you download this actual code you can run that and you have a look on our studio what the outcome is going to be and then all I did at the end was just to create a score computer available here we pass the model to the evaluate function and we pass x test and y test and we concatenate this the test loss and the score dollar loss so that's one of the values that is inside of the score and we see a test loss of 0.18 and we see a test accuracy of about 96.45% so encourage you to download this file or create your own create your own convolutional neural network as you can see it really isn't that easy and start start your first look at some other convolutional neural network using the inbuilt using the inbuilt image data sets in future I'm going to show you how you can use your own images if they do live on your internal drive how you can use them to pass it to because that's quite a bit different than just using these these inbuilt images now there are lots of other image data sets available as well CIFAR 10 that it does images of 10 classes CIFAR 100 these things are all built into kerosene I urge you to explore those


I am from Pasco, Washington. Before coming to Hungry Generation, I used to be a drug addict. I used to smoke marijuana, pop hills, different types of drugs. I had struggled with depression since I was 15 years old. I decided that it was time to change when I had found out that I had my son or I was gonna have my son. I wanted to stop partying and taking drugs. I was ready to become an adult again. December 31st of last year, my friend Sylvia, she invited me back to Hungry Generation after numerous times. I decided to come and then, I don't know, something changed. I received Christ on a Wednesday and on the third Wednesday that I had came to church, I really felt him in me. It was a feeling that I had never felt before. I knew that I was ready to accept him fully and commit myself to Jesus Christ. Ever since then, I have noticed that I am more stable at my job. I am now going to school. I have been getting better grades. My tithing, I now tithe and I see a difference in my finances. I don't struggle with money as I used to and I thank God for that. I have decided to get baptized tonight because I know that this is my way of letting God know and everyone know that I accept Jesus Christ in my life. Right, Anna, do you believe in Jesus Christ as God's Son and your personal Lord and Savior? I do. And do you promise to follow him with good and clear conscience for the rest of your life? I sure do. Based on your faith, confession and commitment will baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.


Hello and welcome. My name is Emily Jovay. I'm with 350.org. Thank you for joining us for the first of three climate strategy webinars hosted by 350.org and the Labor Strategy Center. I wanted to start off with a few logistics before we get started. So if you're watching this on YouTube or embedded on a web page, if you're having any technical difficulties, we recommend refreshing your page. And if you drop off at any time, this video is being recorded and will be available immediately following the live session. You can access it at the same link that you're watching it now. And after the session, we'll have a Q&A and you can submit your questions either on the YouTube chat. We'll be monitoring that and also we'll be keeping track in the comment box if you're watching on the 350.org page. So we'll have about 25 minutes for questions at the end. And yeah, without any further ado, I'll let David take the floor to introduce our speaker. Thanks, Emily. This is David Sallet. I'm an arts organizer with 350 North America. And we're excited about this is the first of three webinars coming up at 350 and Labor Network for Sustainability, which Jeremy Brecker is a co-founder of, are putting together. The next two are going to be on public trust and just transition. The information for them are wherever you found this one, either the Facebook page or the YouTube. And we also want to highlight that we have a downloadable guide. So if you want to get together a group and read the book, discuss it and take action together. It's designed specifically for that. It's a free download. You can find it at any of the places you found this. And also just to note that the publisher is giving a half off if people order five or more books. And here's the information. And I'm excited to introduce Jeremy Brecker. He's a historian and award-winning documentary filmmaker, a very prolific author of books on labor and social movements, of which he's also a very active participant, such as being arrested for sitting in at the White House against the Keystone XL Pipeline. His classic labor history strike is how I learned how much ordinary working people are capable of when we stand up together and organize. And his new book, Against Doom, a Climate Insurgency Manual, just came out. Naomi Klein says of his new book that it's a crisp, clear and savvy synthesis of key concepts and ideas that will help the global justice movement to succeed. And I'm going to hold up the agenda that Jeremy is going to be walking through as he talks before we switch over to him. Please welcome Jeremy Brecker. Thank you, Jeremy. Great, great. Thank you so much, Emily and David. And especially also to 350 and to the Labor Network for Sustainability for sponsoring this and making it possible. And especially thanks to those of you who have taken the time out of your lives to participate in this discussion. The book and what we're going to talk about tonight is really directed to trying to establish a strategic framework for climate protection and for the climate movement. What we're really doing here is not trying to present my brilliant ideas, but rather to weave together elements that the climate movement is already using, already has in practice. But to look at how those efforts can fit together into a bigger and more effective whole. The goal tonight is to find ways that we can work together to make our action cumulative and complimentary. Now in a democratic social movement, strategy is not just something for leaders to determine. Strategic thinking and deciding must be open to all. So our task here tonight is not for me to tell you what the climate movement strategy should be, but for all of us to make the best strategy we can together. What I'm going to lay out I know is not a perfect strategy. I hope people will correct its flaws or develop a better one. That's really what I'm trying to accomplish here tonight. The talk outline that David held up has three parts. What is climate insurgency? What's the strategy that the climate insurgency movement can use to achieve its goals? And how can we implement such a strategy? I'll try to make sure we leave time for questions and discussion. So climate insurgency, it grows out of a paradox. The people of the world have an overwhelming interest in climate protection. When you look at poll data and other information, it's clear that the people of the world have an overwhelming desire for climate protection. And yet the people of the world, we are unable so far to halt climate destruction. How can that be? The basic reason is we are divided and therefore we are powerless. Now we know that the governments of the United Nations and the various official climate protection activities have been going on. They've been going on for 25 years. We've had international conferences, international agreements like the Paris Agreement. We've had national legislation in many of the countries of the world. But when you add it all up in the face of the incredible threat of climate change, the official climate protection effort and process we can only conclude has essentially failed. Now protecting the climate is up to the people. And that's why we're witnessing the birth of a global nonviolent constitutional climate insurgency.  And what does that mean? What are those words trying to convey about our movement? First of all, insurgency. We read all the time in the newspapers or see in the media insurgencies around the world. Usually there are military resistance movements of communities or attempts to create new nations or to impose new national governments. Think ISIS. Well, that's one kind of insurgency. But more broadly, and we'll see how the climate insurgency is different. More broadly, an insurgency is a movement that denies the legitimacy of existing rulers.  It asserts that people have the right to protect the climate, even if governments and corporations claim that we are criminals to do so.  It's based on people power. It's based on something that we're all led to forget by those who teach us history and those who teach us about current politics. But yet it's a profound truth that we must not forget. And that is that the power of the people to withdraw our acquiescence, cooperation and consent is the power that gives us potential control over those who rule us. And the history of social movements. You can talk about the labor movement, civil rights movement in the United States. We're seeing it today in the resistance to the presidency and the agenda of Donald Trump. And we've seen it all over the world in countries with dictatorships, tyrannies, where people power uprisings have been able to overcome what seemed like all powerful. Rulers. And the underlying reason is, and we'll discuss this more later, that those rulers are dependent for their power on the people that they rule. So another aspect is that constitutional, constitutional insurgency. That sounds pretty paradoxical. And what it does is to allow us to flip the script and redefine, reframe the whole process by which ordinary people challenge their rulers. What it does is to declare the climate destroying governments and corporations are the criminals. And that those who resist them are enforcing the law and the Constitution. Now, how can that be? What grounds do we have for saying that? We're going to discuss this much further in the July 5th webinar on the public trust. But the gist of it is that we have a right to protect the climate. Some of us, for example, about a year ago, the break free from fossil fuel movement that 350 and many other climate protecting organizations were part of declared, issued a declaration, in fact, that we have the right to protect the climate and the governments do not have any right to destroy it. But this way of flipping the script, this way of redefining the situation that we face has made huge strides just in recent months. Two days after Trump's election, federal judge, Ann Aiken, issued a decision in the case that's known familiarly as kids versus U.S. government or the Giuliani, our children's trust case. She found that there is a constitutional right to a stable climate. In fact, she wrote, the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society. And found further that the Earth's climate is a public trust that the federal government has a constitutional obligation to protect. Now this case is going forward. It's now called informally kids versus Trump. And the prime architect of our children's trust case and suit is going to be with us on July 5 on our webinar on the public trust. So I'm not going to say more about that now except the fact that this is going through the courts does not mean that we have to or can wait for the courts because we're facing a situation where irreversible damage is being done every day.  But what it does mean is that those of us in the climate insurgency and the climate protection movement can put on our banners and our proclamations that we have a constitutional right to a stable climate. And that is what we're enforcing with our actions. Finally, it's a no brainer that the climate insurgency is a global movement. We've seen that with actions like break free from fossil fuels. And we've seen an necessity for it because if all the rest of the world and unfortunately we're seeing this story in connection with Mr. Trump in our own country right now. If all the rest of the world says, oh, we want to protect the climate. And one country says, no, we're going to do all the fossil fuel pollution. We can feel like the dynamic is created where you get a race to the bottom and the entire efforts of the world will be undermined. Conversely, we can have a and must have a global movement that imposes global standards and halts the burning of fossil fuels worldwide. So to sum up what climate insurgency is, it's a mass global nonviolent action to restore balance to the Earth's climate system by challenging the legitimacy of those who are destroying it. Okay, what would be a strategy for this kind of effort? How would you go about trying to achieve these goals? The starting point I think we have to recognize is our apparent powerlessness, the fact that for 25 years we've been trying to do this and we haven't been able to. And that lies not only in our disunity and division, but also in what you might call the democracy deficit, the fact that we live in countries that are supposedly democracies. But in fact, the actual power is not held by the people, but it's exercised, especially by the tiny, wealthy and institutionally powerful minority that have control over a extremely unlevel playing field. But that democracy deficit that power inequality doesn't mean that we actually are powerless that there's nothing we can do because addressing institutional powerlessness is what social movements do and all the social movements and I'm not going to give you the list. I wish I could explore some of the history of a variety of them is what I spend most of my life trying to do, but I want to leave some time for questions and challenges at the end. So I've just boiled down quite a number of the techniques that I think we can use for climate protection to just a handful that I'm going to talk about tonight. That are pieces of how climate insurgency can develop power. First of all, it's taking actions that change people, actions that change millions of people. And when you hear that your first thought may be, how does that work? Is it really possible to inspire our friends and neighbors to organize and act after all they aren't out there now. Well, it's very interesting to look at the poll data about climate and climate attitudes for the United States. The polls indicate when you look at the percentages of people have various opinions and answer various questions and project it that what does it mean in terms of national population. There are 100 million Americans who've told polls who whose representatives have told representative polls that they are willing to act to protect the climate 100 million. And they list various things that they'd be willing to do, boycott products, vote, participate in meetings and so on. More staggering to me is the fact that in polls one person, one American in six, that would be 40 million people say they would personally engage in civil disobedience to fight global war. Well, why aren't they on the streets when we go out there? Why aren't we seeing them? It's not because they don't care and it's not because they don't know the dangers of climate change. It's a result of what you might call climate despair. It's the result of feeling that nothing can be done and that nothing they do can be effective. There's another survey that's found that only 6% of people said they believe society can and will reduce global warming. And it's that kind of fatalism and that kind of despair that underlies in my understanding much or even most of the apparent apathy and passivity that people express in the face of this devastating threat. And so what we need to show is the power of action to protect the climate. I'm just going to give one example and throughout this, I wish I could give a lot of examples because these strategies are all based on things that people have done and are doing. But before the Keystone XL pipeline struggles, the largest demonstration against climate change in American history had about 40,000 participants in Washington, D.C. at the White House and at the Capitol. And then we had the incredible, massive, confrontive, contesting struggle against the Keystone XL pipeline went on for years, was a huge factor in public consciousness. And in the aftermath of that, we had the People's Climate March in New York City at the UN, I think it's 2014. And instead of having 40,000 people, it had 400,000 people as a demonstration in Washington and elsewhere around the country. And I'm not going to say that the Keystone XL pipeline struggle made all the difference, but I'm certain that it was a huge factor in changing the scale of opposition expressed in demonstrations against climate change from 40,000 to 400,000. Okay, next point. All rulers depend on support from those they rule. And so a key part of climate strategy is to undermine the fossil fuel industries pillars of support. All the institutions from other businesses to those who invest in fossil fuels to those who simply go along and support politicians who are in the pay of the fossil fuel industry. All these forms of complicity need to be challenged and ended. And that's, so I'll just give one example, which is the divestment campaign. And there are now five and a half trillion dollars in assets that investors of all kinds, institutional and individual have pledged to divest from the fossil fuel industry. And this is an example of undermining the pillars of support in a way that combined with other factors will lead to the erosion and eventually breaking of their power. I could give lots of other examples, but we got to go on here. So another key point is to discredit the legitimacy of the climate destroyers and we touched on that because it's at the core of what an insurgency is all about. We need to define the fossil fuel advocates, as well as the industry as criminals laying waste to the common heritage of humanity. And we'll be talking a lot more about how to do that in the public trust webinar. We also need and are very effectively doing it to impose negative consequences for the fossil fuel industries and their supporters. There's a variety of ways to do that. Just turning public opinion against the fossil fuel industry, which has been, if you look at the poll data, they are despised. The oil companies, the gas companies, the coal companies are up there as public enemies in the public mind already. And our movement has done a great deal to make that happen by making clear that they are responsible for climate destruction. So also negative consequences include challenging government collusion and supporting them. For example, all kinds of challenges to public permits, almost all fossil fuel infrastructure and oil burning requires permits from federal or state or other governments. Why are our environmental laws and agencies not stopping that? Well, they are colluding with the destruction of the planet. And we need to reverse that. And it's a very, very large part of the climate protection movement has been involved one way or another with trying to prevent fossil fuel companies from getting the permits to do their destruction. Another piece that is absolutely crucial is the mass disruption of pipelines, of corporate headquarters, and of all the other pieces that the fossil fuel industry is able to use to enable it to do its dirty destruction. And one other thing that I want to mention here is the need to integrate popular needs and what people need, not just in terms of climate protection, but there are other needs into climate protection plans and programs. This is sometimes talked about as a just transition. For example, while fossil fuel elimination and clean energy will create far more jobs than it threatens. Nonetheless, it does in fact threaten the jobs of a certain proportion of people who work in the fossil fuel related industries. Those workers need to be protected and seeing it not made victims of our climate protection actions. Any job is an important job, if it's your job. And that's the way we in the climate movement need to think about protecting fossil fuel workers. There are numerous plans for how to have a just transition, how to include that protection in the programs of the climate movement. And I'm not going to go into that now, because this whole question of a just transition will be discussing in the third webinar July 10th. Another crucial piece of a just transition is to challenge the incredible inequality and the growing inequality that marks our whole society for workers, and especially for specifically disadvantaged people who are discriminated on the basis of race, on the basis of ethnicity, on the basis of immigrant status, gender, sexual preference, and all the other lines on which our society is perpetuating and at the moment intensifying injustice. The transition to a fossil free climate safe economy provides huge opportunities to correct those injustices. A way to allow people who have been excluded from good jobs and excluded from the workforce to have job ladders and affirmative action programs that make them front and center in the jobs that are created fixing the climate. And similarly, people who live in communities that have been the prime targets for climate injustice, the concentration of polluting facilities in their communities. This is a tremendous opportunity to redesign our energy system in such a way that those coal fired power plants and pipelines and other horribly polluting train tracks. They can be rebuilt, transformed, redesigned to reverse the sub concentration of injustice in those communities. Okay, so how would you go about implementing this kind of strategy. First of all, the key thing to remember is that the main target is not the metal in a pipeline. It's not the windows in a corporate office building. The main central target are the hearts and minds of our fellow people in our local communities and our states in our nation and worldwide. The core means is to transform the public mind. Now, that's a pretty slow job if you do it individual by individual, but we need to recognize that this is basically a social process. And what we need to do is transform the milieu is in which people live. There are things that you find in the polls and the studies, but we've all experienced it and in fact I think by certainly I have been a participant in this myself. And I'm sure many of you have in our own families and neighborhoods and communities. But touched by the climate protection movement. There is an invisible wall of silence against talking about climate change, let alone talking about what to do about it. One of the first and most important things we can do and that every human being can participate in is breaking down those barriers by talking about climate change. We're expressing our fears or concerns expressing the fact that we don't feel good about what's happened to us. And that we're concerned about it and that we're looking for things to do, and we want to talk about it with our friends and neighbors. That is central to what's the cellular process that is going to transform the way our whole society deals with climate change. When we do that in our own communities and our own milios, then it's also essential to reach out across the boundaries of those milios and communities to others and other communities and milios. And find a way that we can forge ourselves from a disunited isolated set of individuals into a powerful climate insurgency. Now the public needs not a full elaborate scientific knowledge and ability to answer a long examination about climate change. I think the public needs three key understandings. They're very simple, but they need to be central to what we are trying to convey with our action. First of all, the cause of climate change is not sunspots. It's not some vague human agency that involves dozens or hundreds of different kinds of evil bad things that we're doing to the environment. We need to understand that continuing to burn fossil fuels will destroy the climate system and that that is the core thing we need to change. Of course, there are lots of other good things that we need to do, but if we don't halt the burning of fossil fuels, we will not protect the climate. Second, people need to understand that fossil fuel burning can be rapidly replaced, and that is partially done by demonstrating putting solar panels on the roofs and not having to pay for burning coal and oil and gas. It's a simple example of how we can in fact replace fossil fuels, and we need to have plans and programs that spell out how we do that in our communities in our states and our country. The third essential is that the power of the people can impose this change, and we do that partially by educating people about how it's worked in the past, and most of all by showing concretely in action that we can make that change. Okay, so this leads into two demands that I think we can organize a lot of our action around. The first is what's sometimes called a fossil freeze. The idea is no new fossil fuel infrastructure, no new pipelines, no new power plants that are based on burning fossil fuels, and no new train or other transportation for them. Just stop building new stuff. Now this is very different in the way people react to it from leaving in the ground. I don't think it's really very different, but when people here leave it in the ground, they think, oh, we're going to shiver to death in the dark. And focusing on infrastructure doesn't mean that we should leave every existing coal-fired power plant in place, but it means our core emphasis can be on no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and here's why that's important. The average useful life of the fossil fuel infrastructure that is in place right now is more or less 30 years. So if we don't build any more of it, it's all going to have to be shut down because it's going to be obsolete and hazardous by 2050. As it happens, a 100% fossil-free economy by 2050 is what scientists tell us we need to meet the core targets of the Paris agreements, and those of course embody what climate scientists have evaluated to be what's essential to prevent the worst forms of climate catastrophe. So fossil-free, and again, there's a convergence between those of us who are primarily concerned about protecting the planet and protecting climate, and those in the political system and government who recognize that the era of fossil fuels is over, and that for each of our communities and cities and towns in the country as a whole, halting making that transition from fossil fuels to climate-safe energy is not only necessary to protect the climate, but also a huge advantage for our people and our institutions and our governments, and in fact a huge advantage for everyone except the fossil fuel companies themselves. The second thing we need to do that is a compliment to this is to demand that every community, every city, every state, create and every corporation and colleges and schools, every institution create climate action plans that are adequate to meet their share of the targets of climate reduction, climate destroying greenhouse gas burn, remitting destruction. In the timeframe that we have to to prevent catastrophe. And those climate plans also need to incorporate just transitions that create a far more just society, protect fossil fuel industry workers, and therefore sees that those communities are far from opposing climate protection because they feel threatened by it, become the strongest proponents of the transition to a climate-safe economy. So, to wrap up here, there's a couple of questions that I think almost all of us have and worry about and quite rightly, and I'm not going to provide Pat answers, but we can look at them as well as other questions in the question and answer period. The first is, aren't we too late? Is there any point in trying to hold climate change when we know that there's so much destruction is already in the pipeline, and when we know that the forces that are trying to perpetuate climate destruction are so powerful, and we at least feel and perhaps appear so weak? And whether that's true or not. So, I think there are two answers to that. I think, no matter what happens, we can be sure that the future will be better with fewer greenhouse gas emissions than with more of them. If we send, we can reduce them. If we can have three degrees Celsius instead of 14 degrees Celsius, we are going to make a huge difference to the future of the world. It's not good enough. And obviously, even the Paris targets are just barely in line with a minimal statement of what's necessary. But even if we're not 100% successful, the effort will make a huge difference. The second question is that we know one certainty that business as usual, not making the changes that are necessary to protect the climate, means gradual creeping doom, followed by accelerated accelerating and ultimate doom. The second question is, can any of this work in the climate movement and climate insurgency actually do something and have a significant effect and a significant enough effect? And I think the answer there is that the answer is not certain. And the reason it's not certain is it doesn't necessarily depend on outside factors and the inevitable advance of the Anthropocene and things like that. The answer depends in substantial part on what we do. And I think of the phrase of Mahatma Gandhi when India was struggling to free itself from the colonial control by Great Britain. And he said it's not just a matter of who has the best arguments, but the matter resolves itself into one of matching forces. The climate insurgency is matching forces with the climate destroyers right now. And it's up to us to make sure that we win. Sorry about that. Thank you so much, Jeremy. So now we're going to take some questions from our audience. If you are watching on YouTube, you can type your questions in the chat. Or if you are watching on the 350 page, you can write your questions on the comment box and we'll be monitoring both of them. So, I'll give people a second to come up with their question. And David will be reading loud and asking Jeremy the questions. Have a first question. Thank you for that, Jeremy. The question is, do you have ideas for how the climate movement can work in conjunction or support other movements by the impacts of the Trump era against the travel ban for healthcare for all against healthcare cuts? As it happens, I cut a section of my talk out. There was exactly about that. We're seeing one of the great civil resistance movements of American history. When you look at the 5 million people who participated in the women's marches around the country and add in the people who've been protecting immigrants and all the other aspects of resistance to Trump administration agendas. It may well be the largest civil resistance movement in American history. And the issue of climate change has been incorporated in many, many aspects of that. And I'll just mention that the women's march included climate protection as a key policy plank. And we're seeing that all over, all of the many struggles that are supporting each other involve climate protection as one of their core demands and elements. The climate protection movement similarly has been deeply involved in breaking out of its own silos and recognizing the need to participate with the other movements that are resisting the Trump agenda. This has been particularly clear in the question of immigrant rights where many of the green environmental and climate movements have taken a stand and been actually out on the streets with climate protectors, excuse me, with immigrant protectors in a variety of ways. It is interesting to recall that a few years ago the Sierra Club was actually almost taken over by advocates of immigrant exclusion on the grounds that immigrants were a threat to our wonderful Christine American environment. And today we're seeing a situation where the Sierra Club is out speaking in support of immigrant rights, joining immigrant rights demonstrations around the country. And this is also very much true at a more grassroots level where environmental activists and climate activists are participating in Black Lives Matter and in immigrant rights and in all kinds of other aspects of resistance to the Trump agenda. So I think there's one further step that we need to engage in here, which is to recognize the special role that climate protection can play in the resistance to the Trump agenda. Much of that resistance is based on individual groups, it's based on immigrants who are threatened, it's based on LGBT people who are threatened, it's based on women who are threatened. And each of those groups in fact needs to make their own challenge to the Trump agenda. But climate change is something that threatens every one of those groups. And so it has the potential to be a common thread and a common interest that helps unite all of us, not taking away from those separate struggles, but recognizing that each of those groups is threatened by climate change. And that joining together to oppose it is a central part of our joining together to oppose the Trump agenda. And the good news is, it's happening. Now the question, which is, for people who aren't comfortable or able to risk arrest, what other confrontational tactics are available? Well, let me start by saying that risking arrest and other activities of that kind are and should be only a crucially important but a small proportion of the work that we do in the climate insurgency. It's entirely appropriate for most people to feel that most of the time their work is not getting arrested, their work is educating their neighbors, reaching out to other people, doing media work, participating in legal demonstrations, influencing the political system, on and on and on, those are all crucial parts of the climate insurgency. The goal is to have the actual civil disobedience actions be dramatic, vivid parts of the much wider process of affecting our friends and neighbors and affecting our society and affecting the public. They are a crucial role, but the much broader statement that of support for them and support for the undermining of the pillars of support for the fossil fuel industry and its pals. All of that activity should be seen as confrontation with the climate destroyers. As far as specifics, you know, just to start with one of the most transgressive things people can do is to talk with their friends and neighbors and people in their communities about climate change and break down the barriers to talking about it. That is transgression of the rules that we have in our society and in our culture. So, something as simple as that is really a key part. And then beyond that, going to meeting, a community meeting, a Democratic or Republican Party meeting, any of the places where people gather to discuss these things. Churches are an important part.  We need to take a completely different tack. We need to become leaders of the climate protection movement. The people who do that will have all the confrontation that they care to have in the initial phases, because there is a minority inorganized labor that is trying to impose a fossil fuel friendly agenda on the movement as a whole. But our organization, the labor network for sustainability and our labor convergence on climate have hundreds and hundreds of people who are doing exactly that in their unions. They meet plenty of confrontation, but they also are creating new networks within organized labor that are encouraging a completely different approach and one that is in line with the objectives of the climate insurgency. So I think the answer is confrontation does not by any means have to take place by people risking arrest, putting their bodies on the line. There is a necessary and crucial role for that, but there is a necessary and crucial role for confronting all the other kinds of barriers that prevent us from saving our climate. Perfect segue to our next question from Alex. He says, do you have any suggestions for how to start a conversation about climate change with friends or family without being a total downer? I don't have a formula. I think to say, essentially, you know, I just saw the news, I just saw the people that did that demonstration down the street, and I'm really concerned about this. And I know a really large proportion are concerned about this. A large proportion of people actually are worried about it. And I would really love to talk with you about it. You know, if you're at a cocktail party or the equivalent, it's perfectly reasonable to say, I'd really like to talk to you about it. This isn't a good time, but would you be willing to spend a few minutes sometime in the next week or two having a conversation with me about it? You can do that with two or three people or four or five people if they're a kind of natural group to have the conversation. And it used to be that that conversation had to start by saying, do you think climate change is real? I don't think that that's in most places and for most people, if they're honest, they're not going to say, oh, no, it's all just a hoax. There's not one person who says that a lot, but he doesn't seem to be very persuasive with the rest of the population. There's now an estimated maybe 20% who are true climate change denialists. I think that a good starting point is just, you know, tell me what you've been thinking about it and what you've been reading about it and what your thoughts are about it at this point. And start from the point of view of what's sometimes called a listening session. When I do it, I say something like, you know, we're all hearing different things. We're hearing people who deny it all together. We're hearing people who say it's the end of the world. There are people who say we can't do anything about it. There are people who say we all need to work ourselves up and get arrested and go to jail. And, you know, I'm sure that we all have conflicting feelings about it. Tell me what you've been thinking about and I'll tell you what I've been thinking about. And treat that as a kind of starting point for discussion. For organized group, another major way that we do this, for example, here in Connecticut where I live, we do, we have an organization called the Connecticut Roundtable on climate and jobs where we try to pull together climate concerns with the concerns about employment and quality of jobs and union representation. And it's actually co-anchored by the Connecticut AFL-CIO and the Interreligious Task Force on environmental justice. And we go out, among other things that we do, we go out and do workshops, mostly in union locals, but also in religious congregations and other kinds of places where people who have something in common. Or gathered together. And we usually start by having a series of questions that we ask people what they think, what they feel, what they've heard and use that as a starting point. And then we go into, well, here's what we've been able to put together about it. We're not necessarily scientists or experts, but here's our sense of what's going on. And here's what people that we know about are trying to do about it. And then let the discussion go from there, let all the skeptical questions be addressed, and let the dialogue start in that kind of way. And what we found, often specifically with labor groups is there would be somebody who would say, well, my cousin says that there are all this stuff about climate change is a hoax.  And it turns out at the end of the conversation, that's the guy who was the believer in climate change and wanted to get all the arguments to use with his cousin. So I think a certain fairly light exploratory listening session kind of approach is really helpful in terms of where you start. More questions. Yes, I'm going to, we've got about four minutes left and I'm going to read you all the questions and let you jump around. Kayla, hi Kayla says, can you say more about the jobs issue in relation to just transition? Phil says, can we counter the climate despair just using the internet, or do we need more face to face? And there's a couple more comments. We found we can't even say the words climate change with some people is like, we're made. Creating climate actions for towns and cities is becoming easier due to quickly spreading acceptance of Sierra Club ready for 100 mayors for 100 campaigns. And lastly, the 20th century results in death injury. How can we ensure that this movement won't result in a replay of the history? Can you read the last question one more time? The person was looking back to labor movements and wondering how we can minimize injury and death amongst our movements. Great. Okay, well, I will, it's a lot to handle in four minutes, but I'll do my best. The jobs question on climate change is going to require to slow it down. A very large number of jobs and a large part of them are manufacturing jobs and construction jobs. And there are lots of studies and plans for how you do it. And you'll find a lot of it on the website of my organization Labor Network for sustainability and other places as well. I'm obviously can't go into it in detail, but basic plans are there and we can all apply them in our own specific settings. We did a study in the KXL pipeline struggle was underway where we actually laid out construction jobs that could be done using workers with similar skills along the route of the pipeline. I think that's the kind of thing that we all need to be doing in places where we're involved in struggles that might threaten people's jobs. In internet versus face to face, I think the demonstration of all our experience in the past few years is that they are and must be made synergistic that if you just do things online, it doesn't have the same kind of sense of reality, but that the organizing has been absolutely crucial for through 50 for all the big campaigns for the last few years and they have to go and they can go hand in hand. As far as the explosive response to climate change. I think again the listening starting point really is the place to go. Some of those people who are most explosive are actually very afraid underneath, and they're defensive or offensive response is because they can't face the reality that they know is probably true. The starting by letting them express it and then engaging them in well what if it were true or are you really so certain or what have you seen that might make your question your own thinking that kind of approach is at least the best that I know how to do. I totally agree about the development of the local mayor's movements and other let's have flank the national politics on climate change, and it's absolutely crucial that it be made the climate insurgency be synergistic with it. It's at the core of what we're trying to do. I view the climate insurgency kind of like the little motor that you use to start the big motor. It's our job to create conditions in which these widespread but blocked types of climate repair, climate fixing can become huge and become a huge motor of climate protection. But the problem is that it's stuck. It's not even though people are in all kinds of governments, all kinds of institutions want to do things for climate change are pushing for it. But there needs to be some iron in the effort. And that's what the climate insurgency job is to provide. And finally, how to minimize the, if I understand the question right, the harm that's created by repression and opposition on the part of the climate protection forces. And we don't have to go back to the history is labor movement to see this.  And the people who have written about non violence and the strategy of non violence have a great deal to say about this. And obviously in this amount of time, I can't even summarize that, but the core thing is to take the benefit for them out of using violence and repression. So if the effect of their violence and repression is to turn public opinion against them, if it's to make legislatures refuse to give them permits. If it's to lead, occupy Wall Street. I slept there one night.  And in that situation with this police threat, thousands and thousands of people responded from all over the city to the ready response work that Occupy Wall Street had set up and thousands of people poured into Wall Street area and into the Cardi part. And the police turned around with their tail between their legs and the mayor announced that he was going to open new negotiations to allow Occupy Wall Street to continue occupying that site. Now, these things don't happen every time there is going to be repression, there is going to be brutality, but the support for climate protection is so widespread that those who use it are putting their own political support and well being at risk when they do it. And it's our job to see that the risk that they're taking by using repression and brutality, that that risk is as big as we can use our own intelligence to define. Thank you, Jeremy, and thanks for everything and for tuning in. If you found this webinar useful, we encourage you to either order the book, get a discount, or share the video, and we have a downloadable discussion either for the book. And finally, we invite you to join us again when we go deep in public trust on Wednesday, July 5th, and deep on just transition strategy on July 10th. Thank you very much.


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okay guys this is our first day in the house and i just thought i'd show you a realistic what's going on in this house right now because moving is not aesthetic and there's just so many things everywhere everything is unorganized i'm honestly a bit overwhelmed just because i like having everything clean and tidy but i know it'll get there i just have to trust the process and i am just so eager to get everything unpacked so this is currently our sleeping arrangements here our mattress the bedsheets and then we have just a whole whackload of random stuff on the floor here just kind of boxes and then in the bathroom over here there's just everything is everywhere so it's a chaotic little mess over here basically boxes everywhere at least we have a mattress though which is really nice and then let's go down the stairs so i can show you guys everything is just kind of a mess down here as well but we set up these two beanbag chairs here because my parents just lent us these for the meantime while we're moving before we get our couch so it's nice because we kind of just put the tv on the floor to watch netflix tonight it's perfect until we get our couch because it's really hard not having like any seating it feels so good to be in here and i'm honestly really excited to like move and put everything away and do the kitchen and all that but it's like at the same time it's extremely overwhelming because it's like oh my gosh there's so much to do but slowly but surely we're gonna get there so it's fine but like when i look at it like all the boxes in the garage and like holy cow this is gonna take a while but it's okay tomorrow i think we're gonna go grocery shopping so we have like no groceries here at all we just got some takeout and then gotta bring a bunch of boxes up probably gonna order some furniture tomorrow and then we're just gonna kind of go with the flow to see how things go judge it from there anyways that is a little update of tonight so excited to be here so right you're ready to go hey guys so we just went to sim hortons and we got some breakfast and i got a nice coffee because we just have nothing set up in our kitchen everything is in boxes and we have absolutely no food so we went out for breakfast this morning and i'm planning on probably unpacking the kitchen today so right now we're actually stopped at walmart we just have to get a couple random things like i need to get new socks asap because my dog loves socks and he chewed like all my socks back at home so i need to get new socks i'm just gonna be like five packs probably because i love my socks joel just has to get a couple things and then we're gonna stop over at best buy for joel to get his monitor for his office and then also we're going to go to urban barn because we didn't even realize there was one in the area so we're gonna go check out urban barn and just see what there is see if anything sparks our eye and we're probably gonna order a bunch of furniture today as well but yeah we just have like so much to do today so wish us luck i think i'm also gonna start filming like my aesthetic kitchen makeover because i want to kind of divide this moving series into separate rooms so i'm gonna do like a kitchen makeover probably like my glamour makeover and then we'll see from there and maybe even like my bathroom one so i just kind of want to make more structured videos rather than just like random vlogs all over the place just so each individual video could be its own video apart from the movie moving series too so that's the tea for today yeah we're feeling good we're feeling like we have a lot of energy for today so i'm excited and also depending on how the day goes we might go to ikea but we'll see if we even have time we woke up late today because we were just so exhausted from yesterday but yeah anyways let's head into Walmart so we just got to ikea we just have like a few things that we want to get that are really random like we need to dish rock and we're just gonna kind of browse and see if anything sparks our tension you know catches the eye before we order anything online just to see if we can get anything in person right now the only thing about ikea is that i was looking online because i wanted like a dresser but everything is always sold out here and it sucks because it's just so hard to find stock and when we moved into our apartment last year or a year and a half ago whatever whenever it was it was so hard to get anything because it was like when there was a recession and there was just like nothing available but anyways so i hope there's at least some things and yeah we'll see what we come out with yeah let's go ikea shopping one of my favorite things to do because it's always so fun so we just came across this little shoe rack and i really like it this would be perfect for like our entrance way and then if we don't like it there we can just put it in the closet but i think it's so perfect for shoes and definitely gonna be on my mind because it is currently out of stock so yeah anyways i'll keep my eye out if i find anything else but this is really nice so hopefully comes back in stock soon but it would just be so perfect so me and jill are definitely getting this for our bedroom for each night table because it comes with the remote and look at what it happens here you can switch the colors straight from this remote and it changes to all these cool different colors like this would set the tone in the room like oh my god are you kidding the only thing is is that it is sold out right now there's nothing in stock so we're just going to put ourselves like on the wait list and then hopefully it'll come in stock soon but look the remote just goes right in here and then bam like how sick is that it's 60 bucks for like the whole kit but i feel like that's a good price to have like a really cool lamp like that this is the hall of everything of what we're checking out with we just have to go pick up something from the warehouse but other than that we got a bunch of stuff so i'll give you guys a haul when i get home but yeah so excited here's all that we got from costco we spent five hundred dollars you guys but we got a lot of things in bulk like we got a lot of paper towels toilet paper i just got some like period pads and stuff laundry detergent dish soap like just like a bunch of bulky things that are going to last us a long time like two big packs of ketchup like mayo anyways i got a lot of oat milk as well but yeah huge haul here which is really satisfying but i'm not gonna put it away quite yet because nothing really has a place until i do the kitchen makeover just gonna kind of stay here in the meantime but successful costco haul here's some of the more exciting things i got from costco i got this method all purpose cleaning set and i'm really excited about this because there's no harsh chemicals in these so these are really good and it was so cheap for the whole pack and yeah i just love these cleaners and obviously we need some cleaning supplies and then i just got some dry shampoo and then i just got this laundry detergent it's somewhat natural and then also the soap which is somewhat natural um dish soap by the way and then i just got this finish um dishwasher stuff but so i just put away the groceries there's just like oat milk and like random pantry stuff in here and then just some other random stuff but it's nice and organized in this huge cabinet space underneath the island which i think i'm gonna use as a pantry so it's perfect time for the long awaited ikea haul i am just obsessed with ikea it's so fun being in there and i really loved it ever since i was younger like it's just so fun to see the showrooms yeah anyways so let's do a little ikea haul first thing we got is this garbage bin i just bought one because i want to see how it fits in like the bathrooms in the kitchen and then if it looks good we'll go and buy more but i'm just not sure of the size of garbage cans that we want in the house like in each bathroom so this is just kind of a tester and then we're gonna see how it goes from here with the size next thing is this cute paper towel holder and then we got this nice sink brush we had this in black in our apartment we loved it i just felt that i'd switched it up with the green and then this also kind of matches that this something that you put over your sink and what it does it holds like your sponges and your dishcloth just so it doesn't get super like disgusting and musty at the bottom of the sink and then we bought three of these soap containers just for each bathroom and then for the kitchen we bought these two just little we have to cut off the tags but they're little cloths to wipe the table and stuff we're going kind of with like a cute colorful thing here and then i just bought this dishcloth i have actually one of these already and i love it so much um so i just got another one to have and then i just bought these dish um gloves because my hands are like really dry when they have a zema on them and they're just beige and green which is super cute and then we got these dish racks because before in our apartment we had like a material dish dryer rack thing but it kind of got super gross because it would always be wet and it would smell sometimes so because these are like not you know material we can just easily wash them and it's fine if they get super wet and we actually bought two just in case we need like more drying space because we've always just had the issue where we need more space to dry our dishes so i'm just gonna stack them like this and then if we ever need to we can just use them both and then we got two of these bath towels i'm not like a hundred percent sure on how i feel about them yet but they're just simple like kind of checkered fabric they're the same as the dishcloth but these are bath towels and yeah i'm just gonna hang these up in our bathroom and see how i like them so two of these and then for little face cloths we just got this pack of beige ones just comes with four i think and then we got these cute little broccoli mitts for the kitchen we didn't even intentionally do a green thing but it's got a cute stuff like this like oven mitts and like colored stuff that i bought are things that can easily be interchanged meaning like when the oven mitts get like older we're bored of them we can easily buy new pair since they're so cheap but i feel like it's fun to spice things up with color in that way how cute are these just gonna pass them up we got this bath mat we're not actually sure if it's gonna fit in the bathroom hopefully it does because it's so fuzzy and soft and nothing is better than stepping out of the shower onto a nice fuzzy big bath mat we used to have like really small ones in our apartment and it just didn't get that same effect when you step out of the shower so i'm gonna test this see if it fits in our bathroom and if it does we're definitely gonna keep it because it's so nice and warm and fuzzy and then the next one we got is this utensil divider because ours is really very small from our apartment because our drawer wasn't that big so this one is gonna fill up the drawer really nicely and i really like the wooden this should fit in our drawer pretty nice and then okay the last thing i think it's the last thing that we got from ikea is a dish set so right now we have black dishes and they're math black they're really nice but i just kind of wanted to switch it up and get some lighter ones just so we can have a mix of both so we got these and they're in cream so it's just going to be neutral and matched with everything so now we have a set of black and cream dishes which is nice to like switch up black ones have held up really nicely and we're really impressed with like the quality of them so yeah perfect and that is the ikea haul one thing that's been making this move a lot more enjoyable is my new phone case and this is from torus they sent me this one in pink and this one in clear this has a built in kickstand you guys look at this not only pop your phone up straight but you can do it sideways as well look at how well this just seamlessly goes back into the case so when i'm moving and unpacking boxes as you guys probably saw in my kitchen makeover video i have this thing cropped up so many times so i can watch a video while i was unpacking and it kept me so entertained and i haven't only been using it for moving but i've been using it for when i do my yoga when i'm cooking when i'm working i have my phone cropped up like you can use it in your office you can use it wherever and whenever which is amazing and not just that but this phone case is actually magsafe so you could take a charger and stick it on the back just like that and your phone will charge cordless through the case so this magnetic ring is actually built with a special material called hellbatch array and what it does is it brings the most fast and stable charge it's actually the most advanced magnetic tech which is so amazing cases are actually full body shockproof with 360 protection and it's also scratch and shadow resistant what's so great about these cases as well is they're anti yellow but yeah their cases are not just functional and practical but they're also so cute and aesthetic like so fun and they have a lot to choose from on their website and the link will be in the description if you want to buy one of course yeah thank you so much to torus for sponsoring this video um go shop them if you would like to so at ikea we picked up a dining room table we weren't originally gonna get one from ikea but then we saw it in store and we really liked it so Joel's gonna build it right now and he's gonna build it just in this space here because this is where the dining room table goes and then we're gonna really be able to see if it fits the space and if we don't end up liking it we can always return it so it's not that big of a deal but yeah so he's gonna build it right now and then i'll show you guys we haven't gotten chairs for a yet so i'll let you guys know what i'm thinking later and i can get your opinion there's only one left in stock so i feel like it's meant to be but we'll see how you like it here is the new table i'm kind of obsessed i actually really really really like it and this tone of wood just really fits the space and just like really pulls everything together i'm just like obsessed how it's a mix of a square table and a round table because that's one thing that we were debating if we wanted a rounder square table but this is like a happy medium which is amazing here is the couch i'm actually obsessed with it it's kind of bigger or actually a lot bigger than our last one i don't think we're going to be keeping the rug because as you could see it's too small for this area so i'm definitely going to get a new rug and i think i might just keep this but we'll see couch looks amazing and if it's in the spot perfectly we just did a makeshift little thing here um this is actually going to go in my room so don't mind this it's just because we haven't mounted mounted the tv yet so it's just going to be here so we can watch tv tonight so it's not like on the floor but we're definitely going to upgrade to a bigger carpet so i'm going to order one and we're also thinking that instead of this ottoman we're going to replace it with an ottoman that comes with the couch so we had an option of getting an extra ottoman for this couch but we didn't do it just because we didn't know if we were going to have space but we decided that we're going to get it because we do have space for it and we're just going to put it like right here or in the middle then you can make it more of like a bed vibe and it's just going to be super cozy to have that extra ottoman and then once the big carpet is in it's going to look so good so we're going to go try to pick the ottoman up right now and order it and hopefully i can fit it in my car because these pieces are pretty big but yeah i'll update you guys we just bought the cat i mean the ottoman so it's in stock and we're going to go see if we can pick it up from the warehouse wait Joel i think did we misunderstand him did he say that we can pick it up no problem tomorrow because he said no problem tomorrow but today it should be fine he said okay so hopefully we can pick it up today i'm not 100% sure if not tomorrow but we don't even know if it's gonna fit in my car so that's kind of a tricky situation because if it doesn't fit in my car then we're gonna need to get another car like my parents man so yeah hopefully it'll fit in my car it's really annoying having a car sometimes because things just don't like obviously this doesn't even happen often like this is the only time we were really gonna have this issues when we're moving in and like when we need to transport big stuff but that's one thing why i want like an suv for my next car because just like instances like this it's really nice to have like a bigger car just in case you never know when you may need it so anyways we're gonna go pick up hopefully the ottoman if we can come back with it that'll be like a miracle like i think we can fit a miracle yeah we'll see keep you guys updated we miraculously got the ottoman there's the cushion for the ottoman but i need to tell you guys the story me and joel we went to the store paid for the ottoman but the guy at the cash was like oh like our system is kind of down so it says that you haven't paid yet but like it took my payment from my car but it just didn't register in the system yet so he's like go to the warehouse see if you can pick it up but it might not you might not be able to pick it up because it says your payment didn't go through so we went to the warehouse and then the guy was like oh like your payment hasn't gone through yet so you can't pick it up so i called the store back and i'm like hey like when's my payment gonna go through and they're like oh we'll give you a call in a couple minutes like we're just updating our system and then it should be fine anyway so then half an hour later our payment finally went through and then we went back to go get the ottoman they got it out of the warehouse but it was not fitting in my car like the trunk wouldn't close because i have a sedan so the trunk like was just like resting on top of it it wouldn't close and obviously you can't just drive like that or else it's gonna fly up and break the trunk miraculously this guy with a truck is coming to pick up his delivery and he parks right beside us he sees that we're struggling to get this in the car and he's like oh hey guys like let me help and then he's like oh you guys need a bungee cord and then he goes in the back of his truck he gets us a little bungee cart cord that fits perfectly for our car we're like oh my god you're so nice like thank you so much and then i'm like are you gonna be here like we could come back drop it off or you can give us your address or whatever and he's like no keep it like you guys will probably need it in the future he's like no problem just keep it are you kidding me this gives me faith again in humanity like stuff like that is just a universe like balancing out and the timing of my car payment not going through to him pulling up because when we came at first there was nobody there like nobody there that could help us because the parking lot was empty but he just miraculously pulled it beside us had the perfect bungee course we could take the ottoman home and it was just like wow the universe is really on your side and karma does exist the other day me and roll got scammed like 150 bucks and it was literally just a scam and we just lost that money for no reason but it's like karma caused an effect like anything that negatively happens to you you're gonna get good karma back because it's like the universe always balances out it this just like goes to show that karma is real and like there's good people out there and the universe always balances itself out so if something bad happened to you just know that good is coming your way because the universe is always balanced anyways that's just like a little life lesson that we just got kind of just reassurance anyways we're going to set up this ottoman now but i just had to share that story because it's a good life lesson but let's get this ottoman set up we're just going to take out the carpet here and uh what we have here now because we're not going to be using that anymore so then we just have to wait till our new carpet comes in so here is how the couch turned out with the ottoman we love it so much and we think the ottoman just gives a more cozy vibe and it matches the couch really nicely and just fills out the space also i wanted to show you guys the rug that we picked out for the space i feel like this is just like a funky addition that we can always switch out on the future if we get bored of it yet it's still neutral so i don't know i just feel like it's going to look really good i'm excited for that to come in and then this next rug here is going to go under the dining room table for a more cozy vibe so stay tuned for the next episode of this series to see how everything looks when it comes in so manjul just did a bit of a grocery shop we found a whole food store near us we love it so much just like such a vibe in there and i don't really like shopping at like generic grocery stores because it's like the vibe is so different when you go to like a little smaller grocery store i don't know how to describe it but i just like grocery shopping and like more whole foods like organic stores because they have like so many good products at like regular grocery stores just don't have anyway so we found our new grocery store which is exciting yeah we just kind of stocked up it's like our first time grocery shopping besides like Costco and just that quick superstore run and we kind of just went today on a whim because we were already out and now we can actually cook something for dinner tonight which is nice so this is kind of our first home cooked meal for dinner because i've just been on the newables for the past couple days and like easy cereal stuff like that so tonight is going to be good because we actually have some stuff to make dinner yeah it's exciting our first little grocery shop in the new house so let me give you guys a bit of a haul so here is the little grocery haul we have some organic cheddar we have some grass-fed butter um so got two of these because we go through butter pretty fast so it literally just eats it like that and then i got this oh creamer that i decided to try i've never had this before but it looks so good and then we just got some salt because we don't have any fine salt like this for our salt sugars and then we just got this um naughty Thai soup we actually used to get this at whole foods all the time so we're bringing it back it's so good got some organic sourdough some honey dijon chips and then some divas these are vanilla coke and these are so good they're flavored with stevia and their new packaging is so cute and aesthetic and retro i love it and then we just got two types of teas you got chamomile and then this 99 tea because we want to start our tea collection so yeah that's a little haul