Bringing Liberation 2030 to Life - The 2026 Activation Tour - NYC

projections, let's call them. And obviously we're here at the Rudolf Steiner Center here, which is just amazing. I'm a big fan of Steiner and I've got some of his works. Actually, a couple of years ago I was reading this biography of Steiner and I was walking through— I was in Mexico walking through the streets of Guadalajara. It's this old, beautiful city in a lot of ways. And I'm just walking through the streets and reading about his biography and his life and just felt so connected to him. I just wanted to mention this since we're here, that how many of you have heard Steiner's quotes about how vaccines would take spirituality from people? I mean, I think it's kind of fitting that we're, we're here. If you don't know about that, I mean, I'll just mention like a brief one here. I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts in whom they will be dwelling to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are still very young. I think he was on to something in terms of, you know, not just being a bioweapon or whatever you want to call it, but a spiritual weapon as well. So, all right, let's go. Let's go for it. See where we can get tonight. How's an hour for you guys? Is that reasonable? Yep. You can just tell me to shut up at any point because otherwise I'll go for 2 hours. Well, thank you. I just want to make sure. I like to be respectful of your time. All right, let's go. So you guys know my name. I'm from Houston, Texas originally. I'm going to tell you a little bit about my background. What led me to writing How to Opt Out of the Technocratic State? What led me to creating the Freedom Cell Network, Exit and Build, and what I shared with you guys early. Earlier, Liberation 2030, that's the main focus of tonight. Lots of you have shared your challenges and some of the successes, and there's many of them. What I think matters most is putting our energy into the vision we want in the world. And in fact, I mean, I was so humbled as I was coming in this room to hear some of you sharing that the reason you follow my work, and it seems like many of you appreciate the spiritual side of the message, many of you appreciate the solutions focus, so that's what we're really gonna put our energy into. So when I started to wake up, as many people say, in 2009, 2010, I heard a man named Ron Paul speak at the University of Houston. I read a book called Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs. I watched an old-school Alex Jones documentary back in 2009, and that was pretty much it. My brain cracked open and nothing was ever the same again. As many of you might know, I went on the journey that many of us do, started to drive everyone around me crazy. Would you watch this, read this? Why are you not paying attention? Did that until everybody around me didn't wanna hang out with me. and found 2 friends who didn't think I was crazy, and we started an activist group, and it was called the Houston Freethinkers. And from 2010 to 2018, this was pretty much my daily life. I mean, we did everything you can think of in terms of activism, the marches, the rallies, the protests, but also a lot of community stuff. And it was really this experience that showed me the power of bringing people together. And if you think about this time, 2009, 2010, we're coming out of the financial crisis, 2007, 2008, right? Banks robbed the American people blind, people blind around the world. You had the Tea Party movement on more of the right-wing conservative, people talking about the Federal Reserve, the End the Fed movement. Then in early 2011, you had Occupy Wall Street, people talking about Wall Street. Like, there was a lot of activity, a lot happening. So for me as a young activist, it was just— it was a beautiful time to be coming, you know, sort of starting to wake up and question the world. And we did the protests, we did the marches. Actually, this is where I first met my brother Danny here. We brought him down from New York to speak at our Houston End the Fed march. rally and protest and stuff like that. I lived in a community house for several years called the Freethinker House with me and a couple other guys, and this was basically our hub to do all the things that many of you have talked about. This is where we hosted our monthly meetings. We had a community library of all kinds of books and zines trying to wake up people. We did documentary screenings. We did skill shares, teaching people how to bake their own bread, how to make their own soap, how to— you know, any skill that someone in the community had to offer, we would use the space to host it. We also did the marches and the protests and the rallies and the cop watching and the more confrontational stuff, the sit-ins, and, you know, had some arrests doing different kind of radical activism. And we also had a community garden at our house, and that was a space where we could grow food and showcase how, you know, how important that is. Was also very involved in a lot of urban farming in Houston in those days. We were involved in this place called the Last Organic Outpost. which was this really beautiful 1-acre— it used to be a warehouse. It was literally just a concrete slab that used to be a warehouse, and somebody had this wonderful vision to turn that concrete slab into an urban farm. And it started with just 6 inches of soil on top of concrete, and over a matter of 5 years— this was in the Fifth Ward of Houston, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Houston, where people are in a food desert, there's nothing of quality food around— and over a matter of 3 or 4 or 5 years, this place just transformed, where we're growing papayas and moringa and all sorts of fresh greens. And the people in that neighborhood had any organic food without going, you know, 2 neighborhoods over, a different part of town, all of a sudden had access to quality food and could come get seeds and could come learn about it. It was just such a magical experience. And we did meditation events, we did anything we could think of really. We went out to the street passing out flyers and also back then DVDs, if you guys remember those things. We were passing out like 9/11 documentaries and World According to Monsanto and geoengineering documentaries, all the old classics out there, early days of YouTube. And just trying to reach people. That's what it was about. Because when I started to wake up, it didn't take me long to realize, okay, the problems may be big in scale, worldwide, crazy, New World Order, all this sort of stuff, but the solutions are in our backyard, right? The World Economic Forum, the UN, they have plans. We talked about Agenda 2030 earlier, but how does Agenda 2030 roll out? Your city council passes something new. Yeah. Your school board passes something, your county commissioner. So they have big ideas and big meetings, but it actually comes into effect in our backyard. So we were always hyper-focused on that. I used to go to city council every week to just yell at them about the way they're treating the homeless or some police violence or fluoride in the water, or eventually 5G, all kinds of stuff. This is where I really learned just my roots of activism and fighting for change, and also eventually started to find myself involved in independent media. And, you know, what I've shared there is really my story of how I kind of woke up in terms of the physical world, you know, like to the physical institutions of power, governments, corporations, Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Klaus Schwab, whatever your favorite villain, insert them there. That's part of that, right? And that's an important piece of the puzzle because we got to, we got to look at the world around us. We got to recognize what's wrong with it. But I also felt like I actually woke up a little bit earlier than that. In 2005, I started to wake up kind of in this more internal world, spiritual, if you will. I was 20 years old and I'd been addicted to crystal meth for about 9 months, 10 months, and I got arrested in November 2005 for felony possession of crystal meth. And I had been addicted to drugs and alcohol for about 2 years leading up to that point, pretty much right after high school, right in at the end of high school. I actually graduated early from high school when my friends were finishing their senior year. I went straight into college and got a full-time job. I was a very— intelligent young man, but I was also the crazy kid in school. I was throwing chairs at teachers, I was getting arrested, I was getting in fights. I just didn't know how to handle a lot of the trauma I was dealing with at the time. So when I graduated and I went into college, you know, I started drinking. And I don't mean having a couple beers, I mean like 18 shots of tequila, rolling around naked on the ground while people filmed me, kind of, that was my style. Or doing 18 beer bongs until I puke everywhere. It was a very abusive way of consuming these things, Truly, in that sense. And unfortunately, drinking turned to pills, and pills turned to cocaine. And January 2005, I tried crystal. By that summer, I was homeless on the streets, eventually living in a crack meth house. And then thankfully, I was able to get myself sober a couple months before I got arrested. But I was still kind of running in that world, even though I was committed, like, this is not for me. I need to get away from it. Went back to my parents' house, really asked for some forgiveness and to— Forgive you. let me start changing my life, I was still running in those circles. And so eventually, I was pulled over and I had crystal meth on me and I got locked up. And so as I'm sitting in the county jail waiting to figure out what my future holds, I knew I probably had made— that I was probably in some trouble. You know, I'd been arrested a couple of times for public intoxication or small things like that, but I kind of figured, all right, if I got caught with crystal meth, I'm probably not going home tomorrow. And when I eventually got my sentence, I was sentenced to a 2-year felony drug possession charge. And when I'm looking at the calendar, it's November 2005, and the earliest I was going to be going home was September 2006. And in that kind of acceptance, which you really do have to accept it, it's this really kind of this weird psychological thing. You're in this horrible place that's filled with ego and fear and racism, and all of it I think comes back from fear ultimately. You don't want to accept being there, of course. That's the last thing you want to accept, but the more you resist, the more you're going to suffer. You know, the more you fight it on the phone with girlfriend, mom, lawyer, whatever, and trying to navigate how can I get out of here, the slower time goes, the harder it is to really be present. So eventually I had to accept that I was not going anywhere. And I don't know if you guys can relate in terms of feeling completely powerless, like where, you know, all of a sudden the freedoms that we take for granted every day, like using the bathroom in private or eating whatever you want whenever you like, going to bed when you like, are gone in a moment's notice, and you're not leaving these 4 walls until they say you can leave. You can cry as much as you like, you can scream, you can be angry, you can call your lawyer, your mom, your girlfriend, your husband, your wife, you're not leaving until these people say so. It's a very powerless feeling, but it was in that space where I really started to kind of tap in and find my true power. And thankfully, I had a very, very, very, very powerful spiritual influence in my life, my grandmother, and She would have loved to be at Rudolf Steiner's place. She was a big fan of Steiner. And she introduced me to so many ideas later, but it was her that first reached out to me and she started to send me books on prayer and meditation and kind of helped me opening up and really opening up to the concept of God, even in a way I never would have been, because my young, depressed, angry self had really pretty much written off any concept of God or spirituality. If anything, I was angry at God. I didn't— This is a good story. Like, in my mind, I remember thinking, there's no way a God out there would let all the things that happened to me at a young age, you know, if he or she's out there. So I just didn't have any perception. I didn't care. It wasn't in my world. And all of a sudden, I'm locked up and I'm facing time and there's no exit. And my granny's starting to send me this information. I'm also starting to journal and just really— I was getting sober. You know, my thoughts are getting more precise. I basically had to accept that I was there. And I decided to make the most out of that time. You know, I don't want this to sound like I'm giving prisons any sort of credit for my change, because these are horrible institutions that are filled with so many good people, and I met so many brilliant people who are wasting away behind, you know, bullshit charges and just sitting there on taxpayer dollars. But I chose to use that time, and as I started to get into this prayer and get into this meditation and really journaling, I could see this obvious path that I'd been on, that I grew up in a family of drug addicts and alcoholics, so my, my first memories are visiting my father in prison, for his drug addiction. My— on both the Bros and the Sanchez side of my family, there's at least 3 generations of men who've had prison, drugs, alcohol, suicide, you know. And so this was just very prevalent in my young life. And I could see it's like I didn't understand how to navigate that. I started to, you know, just have all this different internal trauma. And then eventually when I found drugs and alcohol, it's like, oh, this is the key to happiness. This is the key to enlightenment. And it didn't take me long to realize that was not so. But here I am locked up, and I'm just starting to do all this introspective work and starting to understand how I got here. And I became determined to break this cycle, to not continue what me and my brother used to call the family tradition, because prison was so prevalent in our life, we just sort of saw it that way. It's like, oh yeah, that's just what our family does. And so anyways, I did 11 months that first year. Unfortunately, I didn't get the lesson the first time. I got out, only lasted about 5 months. They sent me back. for another sentence, and I did that game for a few months— for a few years. And when all was said and done, October 2008, I was released from prison for the final time. I had done 19 months in Texas state prisons. I was now a felon, and I was 23, and I was the happiest I'd ever been in my life. I probably was experiencing joy for the first time. Despite, you know, all the challenges I was now going to face, I felt joy in a way I'd never felt, because not only had I gotten sober from these damaging drugs, but also I'd spent the last couple years getting to know myself, really starting to heal the wounds from my relationship with my father or lack of relationship. And so I'm getting out October 2008, and which is, you know, think about that time. This is a month before Obama became president. And I don't know if you guys remember that time period. It was a really weird time period to be reentering the world because I wasn't political in any kind of way. I come from the punk music community, so I didn't trust the government or authority, but I couldn't tell you why. I didn't have any philosophy. It's just like, yeah, F the government, you know, and sort of thing, like a rebel without a cause, you could say, right? And so I'm coming out into the world, it's October 2008, and all I remember is that people were talking about this Obama guy like he was either the Antichrist or he was about to save the world. And it was just like these extremes. And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on. I'm just, you know, just trying to navigate what it means to be a felon. Because as a felon in the felon community, we like to say you have a bullseye on your back. You've got an X on your back because all of a sudden you can't get rented here. You can't get a job here. People judge you certain ways. And the crazy thing is, even though this was literally November 2025 was the 20th anniversary of my arrest, And if I was to go right now to apply for some kind of mainstream job, you better believe my 20-year-old felony would still come up, even though it has nothing to do with who I am today. But so I'm out of prison, I'm coming into this space where the election's about to happen. I'm now a felon, but I'm also experiencing so much joy. And I was trying to find a job, 'cause again, it's very difficult. And so I started spending a lot of time at the library. And eventually, one of these days, I decided to read a book. And I read this book called Cannabis: A History. Which is just an interesting book. It really, it's not, what I like about it is that it's just an objective look at the cannabis plant and its impact on the law and culture. It's not a promotion of drugs, and it's not a reefer madness, you know, anti-weed book. It's just like, here's the history of the plant. And I learned about the first drug laws in the United States. For example, the Harrison Act of 1914. And I learned that these drug laws were based around racism against black jazz musicians, Chinese migrant workers, Mexican migrant workers, I also learned that the oil industry really strived to make hemp illegal because they worried that it would be a fuel that could compete with their oil industry. Some of you guys might know this. This was all new to me at the time. My 23-year-old self was just like, whoa, what the heck? I voluntarily took notes on this book for the first time without being assigned. I was just so engaged with it. That's when the light bulb went off. It was just like, hmm, this is not what I was taught in high school or the little bit of college I managed to do. Maybe there's other things I wasn't taught. And then so on, what I mentioned, this is 2008, 2009, I kind of start watching the documentaries, read the books. 2010, start the activist group, and here I am 16 years later. But I share that because I want you guys to understand why I call my work the conscious resistance. And when we're talking about exit and build, somebody was just touching on this a moment ago, it's not just about the things we're doing in the physical world. It's also about exiting, I think, from unhealthy beliefs, limiting mindsets, fears, doubts, insecurities, right? Like, we don't want to create new systems when we're bringing the same trauma and the same baggage from these old ways, right? So exiting includes here and here as well. And so for me, these things were just so important— the spiritual journey, the, you know, the exploration of freedom in here, as well as confronting the physical institutions of power. And so when I got out and I started the activist group, for the first couple years of my life, I was basically living a double life. I had I had my activist friends over here and we would do protests and marches and, you know, community stuff. And I had my spiritual friends and we'd do meditations or prayers or drum circles or what have you. But it really— they were just— they didn't seem to have any interest in each other, right? I'd go to my activist friends, we'd be out on the street yelling at a government building, hoping for change, holding signs. And, you know, I'd say, hey guys, you wanna come to this conscious rave later this week? And they're like, what are you talking about? Like, it just wasn't in their world. Most of the activists I knew at that time were very Logical, rational people. There's nothing wrong with logic or rational thought, but that's just where they were. They didn't have anything, any interest. Or maybe we'd be on the street and I'd hold the sign. I'd say something weird like, "Hey guys, have you ever thought maybe we're all God? Maybe we're just reflections." And just get into something weird. Like, "What are you talking about, hippie? Are you high?" And I'd say, "I am high, but what does that have to do with anything?" And then I'd go to my my spiritual friends and we'd be at our events and I'd say. Guys, did you hear about this latest police shooting? Did you see what they're spraying in the skies? You see this crazy bill they're about to pass? And they'd say, don't talk about it. You're going to manifest it. Only good vibes here. Don't bring any negativity. And so my spiritual friends had no interest in social justice activist causes, and my activist friends had no interest in the spiritual stuff. So for those first couple of years, I really was living this dual life. And then in 2013, I had this experience. maybe some of you can relate to. It's 4 in the morning, you've been watching YouTube videos for way too long. I think I was watching a David Icke talk or something, and then all of a sudden this phrase was given to me, was whispered to me, the conscious resistance. And that's the moment I realized, like, I can't live this double life anymore. This is the same thing for me. Like, maybe everybody doesn't see it, and I definitely didn't see so many people talking about it back then, but to me it just felt obvious. Like, this is— there's no separation. This is the same thing. So When I talk about the conscious resistance, what I mean by that is the realization, the understanding that the struggle for a more free, ethical, and just world is not about only confronting the physical institutions of power. That's a piece of it, and we shouldn't ignore that, but it's also about that other side of it, what I call the struggle against our own internal tyrant, our doubts, our fears, our insecurities, and our limiting beliefs, which can prevent us from being the best version of ourself. And personally, I believe the Creator is calling on all of us to be the best versions of ourselves right now. It's time for us to step up, right? And so bringing those 2 things together, that's what I call a conscious resistance. It's not about one versus the other. Sometimes maybe at different points you're super into the spirituality and your journey on that. Maybe sometimes you're very focused on the physical fight, but ultimately I think they're the same thing. And some people, they get the spiritual side, they get their connection to God and higher power, and they're doing that full-time, praying, meditating, they're floating in 5D, they don't have any feet on the ground. There's just no foundation. And then vice versa, some people are so focused on like, gotta stop the government, gotta pass this bill, gotta do these things, and they're ignoring their spiritual self, right? So I try to bring those worlds together, and that's, you know, that's all based on my journey as an activist and everything I went through. Does that make sense to you guys? Yeah. Awesome, cool. So as I continued in my activist journey, as I mentioned, we were doing all these different types of activities, and we were having lots of success. We were starting to get known in the local community really as a force in not only activism, but we worked with a lot of local bands and local artists. We would raise money for Veterans for Peace causes, anti-drug war causes, domestic violence victims. Like, we were just focused on all kinds of issues. And so people started to know the name, the Houston Freethinkers, and they knew that if we were out there, we were gonna be doing some good work. Even if they didn't agree with every opinion we had, they knew that we would be doing something good. And I also started to get pretty good at getting media attention, writing press releases. This is where I really started to experiment with this whole citizen journalism, independent journalism thing. And as we had successes, we started to get on the radar of the police department. And one time, just really quickly, we were throwing a music festival we held for years called For the Community, and it was a beautiful time. A lot of what I do with the People's Reset is basically what we were doing on the local level, but internationally now. So we'd say, 30 bands, all music, it's all free, come here, and 300 or 400 people would show up, and while they were there, we'd pass out flyers. Hey, here's what we do, here's what we, you know, in between the bands, we'd go up there, and I might say, Hey guys, We're about this, come find out. You know, it was our way of kind of subtly propagandizing people by just throwing a free party and then telling them what we were about. And we had a lot of success, but the first time we ever did it, 400 people showed up, completely overwhelmed us, and allegedly somebody called the cops and made a noise complaint. So the cops felt it was necessary to show up 10 cars deep. They show up, and long story short, they end up arresting me. They grab one of my buddies who's a veteran of the '90s Iraq War, slam his face on the The car, the cop turns around, pulls out a shotgun, cocks it, and points it at a crowd of 100 unarmed people and says, get back now! We catch the whole thing on video. When I got out of jail the next day, we collected all those videos. I wrote up a press release, sent it out to all the local media. Within an hour, they were all at my house, my little apartment in Houston, showed up to interview me. They're all smiles and handshakes and, oh my God, we're so sorry you guys went through this. Tell us your story. And it really, like, the video's going viral across Houston. The Houston Police Department even, like, made a statement, we're gonna investigate this. You guys might be surprised, they investigated themselves, and they found out they did nothing wrong. So, but I'm getting interviewed by the media, and like I said, this is becoming an issue in the city. This was also one of the first times where I really started to, like, think seriously about the whole independent journalism thing. At first, I was just doing activism, and kinda carrying a camera around, and starting to confront politicians, But they came and they interviewed me, they talked all nice in person, and then that night and the next morning when they wrote their articles and they did the video reports, they said, local group of conspiracy theorists surrounds the Houston police. Like, that's how they interpreted the whole thing. And as I said, they investigated themselves, so nothing ever came out of it. But it was those sort of things that not only got us on the radar of the Houston Police Department, but other activists were like, wow, these guys are actually doing something. 'Cause I was out there, I was like, this is what a police state looks like. I guess that was illegal. I got arrested for failure to obey a lawful order from an officer. It's, you know, it's just the sort of thing they say when they want to grab you and throw you. Anyway, so those sorts of things got me on the radar. I started to go to protests, and I would just be walking around Houston, and random cops would walk up to me and say, how you doing, Derrick? Just walking down the street. I was like, okay, that's interesting. But I continued on. We continued our activism, didn't let them slow us down. And then in April 2012, we had one of our best successes, and I would say one of my favorite successes as an activist, because if you've ever spent time as an activist, and when I mean that, I'm kind of talking specifically about street activism, you get used to losing. You sign the petition, maybe you run the candidate, you go chant and you try to stop them, and they just run right over you, or they just do the bad thing anyways. That's mostly what our experience is. You get used to losing, but occasionally you do get a victory, and when that happens, I mean, that's a special feeling. And I do want to say really quickly, when I speak about activism, I tend to use the broadest definition of that. Like, I think we're all activists technically, it's just some of us are more active. I also don't think activism is just the street stuff, holding signs, marches, rallies. Like, there's a time and a place for that. I'm not saying don't do that, but I do consider that to be more reactive activism, because it's like, they did something bad over here, let's rush over there and do— okay, now they're doing it over here, and we rush over here. They're still dictating our energy. and where we put our time. But activism is also the way you raise your kids. It's the way you communicate with people. It's the way you live your life. I tend to call that holistic activism. So I just, you know, I think we're all activists, just some of us are a little more active at the moment. But you can be activists in different ways. But for those who are on the streets, you do get tend to losing. And we had one victory that I wanna share with you real quick. In April 2012, the Houston Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security, Security, all these agencies came to Houston. They held a press conference where they announced something called Operation Bus Safe. And again, this is 2012, so think about that time period. This is 10 years after 9/11. The big fear was still then terrorism, terrorism. There's terrorists behind every bush and they're gonna come get you, so we have to take away your rights. We promise it'll make you safe. So the Department of Homeland Security, the HPD, they announced this program saying that they're gonna bring the TSA You know, the lovely people at the airports who give you a free grope. They said, we're going to take them from the airports, we're going to bring them to the bus lines, and if you choose to ride the local public transportation, your bags will now be subject to random search, your purses, your IDs, which is obviously a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution to be free from search and seizure. So when we saw that, we were like, oh, heck no, this is not happening in our city. So we quickly organized, and we found out when the Houston Metro was having their next board meeting. And these board meetings are typically typically just, you know, 5 or 6 probably dudes just sitting in a room talking to themselves. Nobody ever attends these meetings. Well, we showed up 50 people deep. We got the local media to show up. We made it a big issue and it was— all the media was reporting on it. We're all giving speeches. People are quoting Benjamin Franklin, freedom versus security. We're doing the whole thing and they were completely overwhelmed. They said, guys, we weren't prepared for this. We're going to set another meeting in 2 weeks to just talk about this bus safe program and we'll address your concerns. From our perspective, it was like, cool, they give us 2 more weeks to get even more organized. So we came with even more people. We got attorneys this time. We got more media to show up. We're doing the same thing, speeches, just hitting them up one person after the other. The attorneys are saying, please do this program so we can sue you for Fourth Amendment violations. You will help us win a lot of cases. They were overwhelmed, of course. By the end of that program, they shut down the entire program, and it's never been brought back to Houston in 14 years. Which, as I said, like, for me, I'm like, 2 years into my activism, I'm 4 years out of prison, and just like, oh my God, we just beat the feds. Like, they actually, they're leaving? They're literally going to leave and they're not going to come back? Such an empowering feeling. And especially 'cause it was, I mean, this is like a ragtag group of activists from people in their 50s and 60s to college students and everything in between. And I'm just, you know, I'm just a felon just working with these people and like, oh my God, we actually had a victory here. So it was a very beautiful moment. And again, this also got me on the radar of the Houston Police Department. Shortly after that, about 2 or 3 months later, I received an email from another independent journalist in Texas who had a police source in the Houston Police Department, and she said, if you know— the email to her said, if you know Derrick Broze, you should pass this information along to him. So she sent it to me, and it said that I had a Houston Police Department criminal intelligence officer assigned to me, that I was under surveillance. And, you know, at this point, I'm living in the city. You guys know the city life. I'm like biking around everywhere I go, and I guess they have a cop following me around on my bike as I go from garden to protest to my house or whatever. And it was kind of a gut check of like, okay, the cops are watching me. It was also a little bit like, okay, cool, I'm doing something right. Something's working, they're following me. Then a few months later, I got another confirmation, this time a visual confirmation and another message. And this message came with a picture. It was a room just like this. Imagine you guys are all cops for a moment. I know it's tough, but just imagine you're a cop for a second. And there's a screen right here, and on the screen you see my face and it says, the Houston Freethinkers. And the cop sitting in the back of the room was kind enough to take a picture of this and send this to this source who leaked it to me. And he said, we were made to attend training sessions discussing the Houston Freethinkers and identifying the leaders. They made them sound like they're this violent militant group, but I looked them up and all they're doing is raising money for charity and building community gardens. You should let Derrick Broze know. And And that was just like, oh, okay, this is real. This is not just some story. Now I got 2 confirmations. Cops are coming up to me randomly on the street. There's a cop saying I have an officer assigned to me, and now I have a picture of them talking about me and the group I started. So when that happened to me, that was— think about the time period, 2013. Edward Snowden had just started to leak his documents about NSA spying. I kind of generally understood what it meant to be under surveillance, like the old school stuff. They can tap your home phone, they can go through your mail. But I decided if I was under surveillance by the Houston Police Department, I should probably become an expert in what that even means. What sort of tools are available to the police departments? And so I started filing open records requests with the Houston Police Department just to learn about everything that they had. And I learned about all these fun tools like drone surveillance. And remember, this is 10 years ago, so the tools are, I'm sure, much further along. But I learned about drone surveillance. I learned about what's called cell site simulators. These are also known as Stingrays. It basically looks like a little laptop-sized device, and definitely NYPD has them and most major police departments. And now, of course, they tell you that these tools are only for bad guys, they'd never use them against you, it's just, you know, only for the bad guys. But let's say they knew that there was a criminal suspect in this area and they had his phone number. Well, your phone is constantly pinging, connecting to the local cell tower. What this thing, what this device does is It tricks your phone to believe it's a cell tower, so then it can download all of the images and texts. And again, it's aimed at catching criminals, but the problem with the way this device operates is that as they— like, let's say they knew he was somewhere on this block and they're driving around just pinging his number. In the process though, they're scooping up all the data from all the phones in that, and that's metadata, phones, text messages, images, etc. And they promise they only hold it for 30 days and they're gonna delete it. You know, trust them as much as you like. So I started to host teach-ins and educational events in Houston, teaching my community about all these things I was learning about. As I said, I started to file records requests, I started to confront the police chief, asking him about it. I learned about something called gait detection. You guys know what your gait is? Yes. Your gait is the way you walk. Like, that's, you know, our very unique walk we all have. Some of us got a little swagger when we move. You're— that makes you a little bit easier to detect in a crowd. These are cameras that literally can scan you and can detect all the unique features about the way you walk and could pick you out of a crowd of 1,000 people once it has that recorded. Just in case you ever need to beat one of those, throw a couple rocks in your shoe and you just kind of like, you might be able to beat it. I learned about this other tool where it's like literally it looks kind of like a gun that they aim at a house and they can aim at any building and it can see through the walls to detect the heat signatures, right? Again, they claim this is only to catch bad guys, they'd never use it on you. And then I also learned about something called automatic license plate readers, which maybe more of you are learning about because of Flock. Well, that technology's been around for a decade. There's another company called Vigilant Solutions who was doing it way before Flock. And yeah, those are obviously cameras that can scan your license plate, and now they're increasingly being outfitted with facial recognition technology as well. I learned about facial recognition technology, cameras that can scan your face. This is called your face print. and can store that in a database, and it can be used for all kinds of scary reasons. So I'm just going deep on all these tools. I'm going on local public access TV to talk about what I'm finding. I'm hosting educational events. I'm passing out flyers. I'm doing everything I can to not only educate myself about what it means to be under surveillance, but to try to educate my community. And as I'm going down these rabbit holes, this is like a couple years' process after I found out about the surveillance, I started to find what I would consider to be other activist groups, digital privacy rights organizations, lawyers who are much more expert than myself, and they were warning as far back as 2017 that facial recognition combined with this little— this then little-known thing called artificial intelligence, which is obviously everywhere now, that the combination of those 2 things posed a very danger— very, very dangerous scenario for the future of our privacy. And they were warning back then that there should be moratoriums, basically temporary bans on facial recognition until there was more protections put in place. And, you know, I'm not a big government guy myself, but I do think this technology poses a very unique threat. And so, as I'm reading about this, I also learned that, for example, did you know that Illinois is the only state in the United States that has any kind of biometric protection law? Like, they're still the only one. No other state in the country has bothered to pass a law that says corporations, governments, third parties can't take your face print and use it, you know, against you. So, Illinois is still the only one to do that. And so, I'm just learning about all this stuff, and it's like, okay, this is— That's crazy. This is bigger. You know, I'd already kind of been paying attention to surveillance, but now I'm starting to see the big picture. I'm starting to see this future world of facial recognition everywhere and the surveillance state and how that connects to something called digital IDs, which again, most people weren't talking about back then. And this is what led me to write the book How to Opt Out of the Technocratic State. I published that book in January 2020, right before COVID happened. And the goal of that book, the question I was trying to answer is how do people like us, who value bodily autonomy, self-ownership, privacy, and liberty? How do we stay free in this world that is very quickly and very rapidly racing in this direction? I was also in Houston at that time doing a lot of activism around 5G, fighting the 5G towers and stuff, both in terms of health, like with EMF exposure, but also realizing how 5G and now 6G were really the backbone to this world they're trying to create. The Internet of Things, the Internet of Bodies, the Internet of Nano Things. I'm sure some of you guys have heard these phrases. the bio-digital convergence, all sorts of crazy technology, and they can't do that without 5G and 6G networks as the backbone. This driverless cars, robot assistants, the whole world that they promise us is going to be a utopia, not some freaking Terminator dystopia. Did anybody see the Chinese government's first robot MMA fight the other day? Yeah. Manish was just telling me, like, look, this is terrifying. Like, literally 2 days ago, apparently China has a mixed martial arts league, you know, like UFC, but it's with robots. And they had the first ever fight, and it was— and they literally named them the T-800, which is the name of the robot in Terminator. Just go watch a video of these 2 robots fight each other. If those things are ever in the streets, I mean, it's— yeah, very dangerous. Robot dogs, all the weird stuff that they're working on. So I'm asking myself, how does somebody like us who values privacy and liberty, how are we going to stay free as that world is racing? Because if you remember, When during the 5G, like 2018, 2020, they were calling it the race to 5G. We got to get there first. We got to make sure that nobody gets left behind. We got to beat China there. Now, of course, we're hearing this about the race to AI data centers. We got to beat— we got to beat China before they get there. I don't know if any of you guys ever got consulted about this. I never got asked if I wanted this future. So they're just pushing forward whether we want it or not. And so I'm writing the book. Both the book is part a history about the technocracy movement, the original movement. Which is basically a political movement that said that the people are too dumb to know what's best for them, so we should abolish politics. The business people are too corrupt, so we should abolish the market system and capitalism, whatever you want to call that. And instead, we should have the experts, the engineers, the scientists, the technocrats running society. And when they had this movement back in the 1930s, in their original writings, if you were to go back and look up Technocracy Inc., they talked about using the machines to micromanage the society. Well, I think today we would probably call the machines AI, and now they have the technology to actually make it happen. And for those who don't know, interesting fact, Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Hadleman, was involved in the original technocracy movement in Canada, and he actually was, you know, he has a whole legal history you can learn about. But so this philosophy I started to learn about, to me it's like this is what's underpinning the direction we're moving. These people believe that they can micromanage society. Technocracy also leads to to things like unelected people like Bill Gates using their money and their power to fund geoengineering programs, right? Did we get to vote on that? No, we didn't. Mm-mm. Is he in office? No, he's not, but he's using his power, his wealth, and his influence to affect the world around us, right? That's a technocratic mindset. We don't need the government, we don't need the people, we'll do what we think is best for everybody. And I think we all know they're also, let's just be real, these people are eugenicists. They have an anti-human, anti-life, agenda, right? So I'm asking my— I'm giving a little bit of history, but the biggest question was, again, how do we survive? How do we thrive in the face of that world? Personally, guys, I don't think politics is the answer. Again, I will emphasize local. Do what you can on the local. I think there's still some fight worth having there. Some of you know I ran for mayor of Houston 2 times, 2019, 2023. I did not do so because I believed electing me was going to fix the city in I didn't think I was gonna save everybody, right? I operated under no delusions of that. I kind of ran to hijack the system for about 6 months because Derrick Brose, conspiracy theorist, local conspiracy theorist, never gets invited to the radio stations, the high schools, but all of a sudden you put candidate for mayor next to my name and I'm getting invites to all sorts of places. So I was like, oh, okay, maybe I'll use this trick as my way to spread my message. But I didn't do so 'cause I thought that was gonna fix everything. I do think there's value on the local level, County Commissioner Court. Now, maybe in a place like New York City, the corruption's pretty extensive, just like it was back in Houston. But for those of you living in smaller areas, it might be worth your time. But as far as the federal stuff goes, I think that's, you know, I think the evidence shows, and if you don't know, read The Pyramid of Power, watch the documentary series. This system's been controlled for generations, and they want you to be fighting left and right and all that stuff. And even if you are a voter, let me just say this. If you are somebody who's hearing this Like, no, I'm still gonna vote in November, I'm still gonna vote in 2028. Great, you do what works for you. I encourage you to do that and try to exit and build. And then in a couple years, ask yourself which one of those brought you real value. I feel pretty confident in what's going to lead that to a better place. So I'm not advocating for politics. I also don't think that violence is the answer. I don't think we just need to storm the Capitol and force our way, or all we need to do is put us in power and then we'll force everybody to be free. That'll work, right? As you guys know, not only freedom, but I think like true spiritual freedom, it has to start with somebody wanting it. You can't force it on somebody. They have to like invite it into their heart, into their, their eyes, and their, their mind. So I don't think violence is the answer. I don't think politics is the answer. And I also don't think that apathy is the answer. This seems to have become quite popular in the last few years. Who here has heard the phrase blackpilled somewhere in your internet travels, or doomer, or something along those lines? I have. This is basically just this idea that anything we could think of, any possible solution, is pointless because they're too strong, they have too much money, they're too powerful, they're better organized than us. And some of those things are true. But so I guess in this person's mind, the answer is to do nothing, is just to post memes on the internet and complain about it all day until we end up in dystopia. And I guess we might as well, you know, just laugh about it as we get there. But I reject that completely. completely. I do believe there are solutions. I just don't see them in violence. I don't see them in politics. Instead, that's what I focus on with Exit and Build, and talking about how we exit from these different systems, mindsets, and as we talked about earlier, sometimes that might mean exiting physical locations. But what we're gonna focus on tonight is the systems themselves, because what I started to see is that the more dependent we are on the systems that they've created, the easier it is for for them to coerce us into the world they want. And we saw this during COVID Everything you witnessed around the world with COVID was a technocratic mindset. Trust the experts. That's right out of the technocratic ideology that we don't know what's best for us, so we should trust them. And the way they used contact tracing, vaccine passports, immunity passports, also during this, when they had all the schools shut down, there was a huge push for installing facial recognition cameras in all the different That was also one of the ways they got a lot of the kids, I've seen this with my nieces, on Chromebooks where they got all, you know, basically started doing more digital education. COVID was a huge leap forward for these psychopaths in terms of their plans. And the thing is, they don't have to put a gun to your head anymore, right? Like, let's say like 100 years ago, think of any sort of totalitarian regime you might think of, whether it's communist, fascist, et cetera, they had to physically have a gun and get against the wall, right? Do what we say or we're going to kill you. I mean, that's how they operated. In our world, the digital system has replaced the gun. You don't see the violence so much because it's being built around you. And what happens then? You become so dependent on their systems, they can subtly, they call it nudging, they can subtly nudge you this way or nudge you this way. Or they can say, do you wanna work? Do you wanna travel? Then get the shot. Yeah. I mean, that's exactly what we saw, right? And I mean, maybe some of you can relate to this. I met a lot of good people when we were touring the country last time. Again, the shots weren't out yet. We knew they were coming, but they weren't out yet. And people were like, oh, I'm never gonna get that shot. They're gonna have to take me, they're gonna have to kill me or something. Things like this, really extreme statements of like standing strongly against it. And then when push came to shove, a lot of those people got it. Why? Not because they wanted to, but because their job said, do you wanna keep working? Yeah. Then show proof of vaccination. Do you wanna keep traveling? Show proof of vaccination. So even people who said, That is not what I want. They looked around and they said, well, shit, I have no money saved up. I don't have any food supply. I have no community. I have to survive somehow. So I guess I'll just say a prayer and hope for the best. And they did something that they would have preferred not to do, right? So they were subtly coerced. This is called social engineering, right? They don't have to use the gun in the room anymore. They use the technological system that they've created that most of us have voluntarily chosen to participate in, and they can use that to coerce us. We also saw Debanking. Like, who remembers the Canadian trucker protests? So obviously they're shutting down people's accounts. If you donated to them, they're like, you donated to the wrong cause, your account's shut down. I faced a lot of censorship back then. Um, you know, my channel was deleted for talking about vitamin C. Apparently that went against the World Health Organization policy and I had to be removed from the internet. My point is though, is the more we're operating in their systems, the easier it is for them to control us, right? And so for me, the solution then is to try to take steps, as difficult as they may be, to be as free from their systems. And I want to make it clear, too, I think I said this earlier, that what I'm advocating for, I know is not easy and that it takes effort. And I think anybody selling you that there is a quick-fix solution, like just press a button every 2 to 4 years and vote for somebody, outsource your power, that'll fix everything, it's a lie. We've been told a lie that freedom, liberty, is easy to attain. In reality, it takes effort, it takes energy, and it might take changing your relationships, changing your habits. It might take some financial investments, and I know that can be a challenge, but I think that's the real path. We've been fed this lie that it's going to be something quick, and anybody out there trying to sell you a, here's a 5-step program, just pay $99 a month and you'll be free, you'll never have to do anything for the rest of your life, they're full of shit, all right? Just let's be real. So people out there trying to sell you false solutions, quick fixes. I don't think there are any quick fixes. I wish I had a better message to say, guys, it was really quick, here's all the things you have to do, and by the end of this today, we've won, like everything's over. I don't think those are the cards we've been dealt. I think our path is a little bit more arduous, but it's a worthy path, because as I'll get into more in a bit, this is not just about us, guys. This is about the coming generations. This is about those coming after us, right? How many parents do we have in the room. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, everybody in here has somebody else that they care about younger than them, right? Whether it's part of your family or just distant loved ones. And that's who this is really about, right? I believe that what we're fighting for, we might not live to see the fruits of our labor. And I know that that can be a very difficult concept for people because we're also living in a world where we're used to instant gratification. And so the idea that you might work towards a goal the rest of your life and not actually see the fruits of your labor can sometimes sound not like fun. Like, why would I do something if I'm not going to see the results? But the reality is, again, it's not about us alone. It's about those coming after us. And I'll share more about that in just a bit. But let's dive into exit and build for a moment. Let's— I'm going to give you 3 examples in the book, which I do want to mention, you can download the book for free. There's a free audiobook out there. We have copies, but if you can't afford it tonight, theconsciousresistance.com/howto. theconsciousresistance.com/howto. Free audiobook, free PDF. If you really want a physical copy and you don't have cash, come let me know. I'd love to gift you a copy. So in the book, I go much deeper, but we're gonna talk about just 3 areas. Maneesh sort of already touched on one, the tech side of things, and we also heard people speaking about their health journey. That's another area. I'm gonna just give you a little more details on the tech side for a moment. So real quickly, some of the reasons why we wouldn't want to participate in those systems. Does anybody remember back in the day, like early 2000s, Google when it first came out? Their original company motto was, don't be evil. You guys remember that? Anybody remember that? Yeah. Well, that was what it literally was. They, they, maybe they started out as a company with, you know, some actual morals, and then over time, I think they had a meeting maybe 10 years in, they kind of looked around, they're like, we're evil. We're evil. Like, we probably should take that down. It turned out We actually became evil, so let's go ahead and take that motto down. But if you look into Google, there's—I'll just give you a couple examples. So look up Dragonfly, the Dragonfly program. They helped build basically a drone assassination program that's been used to kill people around the world, including Palestinians. Palantir, the Lavender program. In order to operate in China, pretty much any business who wants to operate in China, they have to basically do whatever the Chinese government says. And Google. Wanted access to the billion Chinese people there. That's a lot of money, a lot of resources. Well, the Chinese government said, you can operate in our country, but you have to build a censored version of your search engine. So for example, if Chinese students want to go search that thing called Tiananmen Square, it'll show up and say, sorry, we have no results for you. So that shows you a little bit about where their morals are. They're willing to build machines that lie to people and censor version of reality in order to do business. Apple, Apple's Foxconn factories, they are basically small cities at this point where they build all the Apple products some of you may use. They had to install suicide nets there about a decade ago because the people who work there literally work 12 to 15-hour days and don't leave. They pretty much live there at the factories to the point that some people started committing suicide and started jumping out of the building. So they had to install suicide nets. We could go on and on. I mean, these companies censor us. I think you guys get it. Like, there are reasons we don't want to participate. in those systems. Why do we? Because for one, they've monopolized the market, right? I mean, you can't go to your local electronics store and see anything other than Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, so on and so forth, right? And convenience. Let's be honest, we do what is convenient. We do what is right in front of us. You have to go out of your way to try to find companies, and they do exist, that respect your privacy. that are trying to create privacy tools, right? And so I want to just mention a couple of these. For one, I'll remind you, Maneesh said his website— he's a brilliant guy. He's not in the room right now, but I'll tell you guys these. Oh, there you are. There you are, brother. You're a brilliant person. SovrinTechServices.com, his website. Check him out if you haven't checked out his— so write that one down. Also, AbovePhone.com. If you guys got the flyers that we passed out, AbovePhone is just one of our sponsors. And I just want to mention, for those who do want to try to dive down the rabbit hole of, you know, getting to de-Googled phones and stuff like that. You could learn how to do it. I'm sure you guys are— I'm confident in your ability to figure it out. But if you don't want to figure it out yourself, companies like Above Phone, they sell de-Googled privacy phones and laptops that are already preloaded with all the things you're used to. So for example, instead of Google Maps or Apple Maps, they have Magic Earth, they have Organic Maps. Instead of YouTube, they have NewPipe, CleanTube, FreeTube. Instead of Spotify and Apple, you have AntennaPod. There are literally open-source private versions of everything that you're doing. But again, you're not going to find these things loaded in your phones when you buy them from the store. Just in case anybody's interested in checking out Above Phone, they did give me a $50 off coupon for anybody who might want to use it. The code is just NYC50, the number 50, and that's good for 3 days. So if anybody wants to check out their website and check them out. So They sell privacy phones, laptops, VPNs, the whole thing. They have a great customer service and they're just a small team of like 10 people. I promise you, Google will be okay without your money. But these kind of companies, they really could use our support and they're trying to create privacy tools. They also have another project called Take Back Our Tech. takebackourtech.org is the website. And this is just a website that has— Is that on these? That's not on those flyers. Above Phone will lead you there though. That other flyer you have is above phone. TakeBackOurTech.org, though, is one of their other initiatives, and it's basically just a website that has a bunch of guides that helps you. So, for example, Manish asked earlier about open source. Who's heard of Linux? Linux operating system? So, most of you have heard about it in some way or another. But I don't know how to do it. I was going to say, who's actually tried to do it, right? It's a challenge. So, you could go to TakeBackOurTech.org, and they literally have written guides, they have visual guides, videos that will walk through the whole thing. They're very responsive. And so, I just want to throw that out there. They give you a lot of information because I get that the tech side can be pretty overwhelming. And that's why, you know, we work with people like Maneesh and Hakim at Above Phone. So, there's takebackourtech.org, abovephone.com. I'll mention 2 other websites. These are just resources. So, do your own due diligence, you know, vet these companies. But if you're interested in, for example, non-Microsoft, non-Google browsers, or emails, or VPNs, or he mentioned Nextcloud earlier. Like, everything you're doing on Google Sheets and Microsoft Teams, which I'm sure some of you are using, and maybe you're doing really great work with it, but why not try to be holistic and actually use tools that are aligned with your values? So look up privacytools.io. Privacytools.io. Another one is libertytools.io. It's a super extensive list. I lost my pen. So, privacytools.io, libertytools.io, and you'll basically just see a list. It'll say browsers, here's a bunch of alternative browsers. Emails, here's a bunch of alternative emails. Again, you do your own due diligence, decide what you think works for you. I can't vouch for all those companies, but just as an example— What are those 2 sites again? privacytools.io, libertytools.io, and takebackourtech.org. Like, the laptop The laptop that I use is running on Linux Mint. The browser I use is called LibreWolf. It's basically a Privacy Max version of Firefox that blocks all the ads, blocks all the trackers. Like, the point here is that there are alternatives that exist. You just have to go out of your way to find them. Now, when we're talking about exit and build, so you see there's a system that you don't agree with, you want to take steps to exit from that and try to build or support those who are building the new systems. What I mean by that is, I'm not the technologist. I'm not a developer. I don't know code. Like, I have to lean on people like Maneesh to learn about these tools. And when I find them, I'm the loudmouth that, you know, shouts it from the rooftop. Guys, look at this awesome tool. Let's use it. Let's support it, right? So if you're in that instance where you're exiting from one system but you're not going to be the one to build it per se, support those who are doing the building. Look into these kinds of companies because as I said, most of them are small companies. They don't have the budget and the resources that Google and Microsoft does. And if they don't get support— what I mean by that in terms of users and sometimes financial— they're here and gone in a year. They might disappear before you even heard about them because they just don't have the user support that they need to survive. So that's one area. We're talking about tech. You recognize it's a system that doesn't align with your values. You're taking steps to exit from it. And don't be overwhelmed. This isn't intended to be an overnight process. Like, if you're hearing this and you're like, oh my God, every— all my business is in Gmail and all of my stuff's on, you know, Google Docs, whatever, that's fine. Come up with a 6-month plan, a 1-month plan. Do it together. That's really the key. Come together and say, hey guys, what if our goal is all of us here, we get off Google by— then, you know, set a date. And then together, y'all start taking that step. You boost each other up and support each other, encourage. Hey, did you get off Google yet? Did you switch to Nextcloud? Whatever it may be. DuckDuckGo, I think, is maybe better than Google, but they've also been bought out. I think they're— I can't remember who owns them now. Microsoft bought them? Yeah. So they're not— and they also censored people during COVID as well. And yeah, so I wouldn't say DuckDuckGo. There's— I will say, as far as search engines, there's presearch.org. I think it's .org or .com. They're a cool company. I mean, again, do your own research. CRX. Mike Adams has one. There's a lot of new websites, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, that are really free. Mike is a friend. I think he is, uh, has some blind spots. I'll just say that. We'll save that conversation for another day. But he is a friend, and I think his intentions are correct, but I do think he's got some blind spots and is maybe embracing some of the technocratic tools thinking he's going to be able to use them to fight them. But we'll save that for another day. There's other search engines like SeerX, S-E-A-R-X. That's one to look into. And again, the thing about using all these alternative tools, it's gonna take a little bit of time to get used to them because they don't look like the Apple and Google systems you've been trained on, the walled gardens that Maneesh was talking about. So don't immediately just give up because you're like, whoa, this looks totally different from what I've been using for the last 10, 15, 20 years. Give yourself some time, you know, give yourself some grace, and come up with a plan to start exiting from that. And like I said, do it together. All right. Let's talk about another area: food. This is obviously important to all of us. We all need food to survive. We all, I think, understand as well the problems with the mainstream food production systems. And I know in places like New York City and Houston, where I'm from, sometimes it's difficult to try to find good local clean food. But I'm sure that there are local community gardens and urban farms even in the city, that there are people doing good work in that area. So the mainstream food production system filled with glyphosate. GMOs. Not only that, no matter what your diet is, whether you eat meat or you eat plants, I think we all can acknowledge that it is a destructive system that is bad for the animals, bad for the soil, bad for the, you know, the earth itself. And not only that, the distribution system is very wasteful. There's all kinds of problems with it, right? So you recognize that, you want to start to become less dependent on that. Easier said than done because 90+% of us are dependent on the big box grocery stores to survive. That's a problem also because did your local grocery store ever require a mask to enter or require proof of vaccine? In some parts of the world, that became a very big thing and people couldn't even enter the store they wanted to get the food without complying with things they didn't want to comply with, right? Not to mention problems with the supply chain and things like that. Yes, ma'am. I was just going to say New York City has the most amazing farmers markets. I'm there every day. There you go. And they're all over the city. So it sounds like you would be a great person to connect with. I mean, that's, that's what I'm saying, like, get, get closer to your, uh, to the people growing your food, and farmers markets are a great place to start. Personally, I am a big believer in getting closer to your food supply, putting your hands in the soil. I think there's something spiritual there. There's something special about getting closer to your food supply and the magic of planting a seed, cultivating it, growing it and then feeding it to people you love, like, there's something really magical there. But again, as I said with the tech side, I recognize that not all of us want to be farmers. That's okay. Like, it doesn't necessarily need— we don't all need that. I do think it's worth going to put a couple hours in a community garden at least once and sort of learning where your food comes from. But if you're not going to be the farmer, if you're not going to be the urban farmer, if you're not going to build a backyard garden or a front yard garden, or for most of you, maybe windowsill gardens or vertical tower gardens or get involved in community-supported agriculture, then support those who are doing that work. Get to know the farmers, go to the farmers markets, and if possible, go visit the farms where they might be growing the food you're eating. It's extremely important for us to have closer relationships to the people growing food. Real quick, in Mexico, when Miriam and I were there in COVID, we got to know our local fruit stand, you know, the people we were buying all our best papayas and mangoes from. And when COVID started happening, Mexico didn't really lock down, but we were concerned still, like, okay, what if it does happen? So we went to them and said, can we get your phone number and meet up with you? And if the government tries to do something, we'll still buy our mangoes in the back alley if necessary. Like, we're going to make sure we can support you. So we made sure to have those relationships. That's extremely important. So I would advise you if possible, and again, as a group, as a Freedom Cell, as a community, go put in a couple hours in the community. garden together. It's a rewarding experience. At least once, just have that experience. Get to know the people there. Usually get to go home with free produce and that's a nice feeling. You could add that to whatever you're eating. Get to know your farmers through the farmers markets. Support them however you can. And if you have the desire, definitely seed banks, these kinds of things. But most importantly, I would say, learn about permaculture even if you don't have land. You don't have to have land to know about permaculture. And really, permaculture is all based on indigenous methods of growing food that have been around for thousands of years before the Rockefellers co-opted the food system in the 1900s and said, oh, let's start using pesticides. This will make everything better. All those methods you've been using for thousands of years, they don't work. We have to spray things with poison. That'll work, right? So all we're really doing is reviving these older ways of growing food that all of our ancestors were more than likely doing. So you're recognizing the food system doesn't align with your values. You're taking steps steps over time in a process to exit from there. And again, let's acknowledge, like, you might be in a position where you're 100% dependent on the grocery store and you have a vision of, man, I'd like for even just one quarter of my food to come from somewhere local. So, that's going to take time. It's going to take a process. Don't get overwhelmed by the big picture. All of these things I'm describing to you are completely attainable, but it does take having a plan. It does take determination and focus and And again, pushing past what's easy and what's convenient, because remember this, my friends, the way they're going to sell us these systems of control, 3 main methods: fear, which is what we saw during COVID We're going to keep you safe from the dangerous virus or, you know, 9/11. We're going to keep you safe from the terrorists. Just let us take away your rights. Fear. That's one of their greatest tools that they have. The other one, convenience. We are, as I said, we are creatures of habit. We're creatures of convenience. Let us scan your face and you get to skip the line at the airport. Whatever it may be, that's one of the ways. Or the ways we fail as well, because it's difficult. It's much more convenient to just keep being dependent on their systems. What you're telling me takes a lot of effort. It takes going against the grain, and it's easier to just follow the grain. But I'm assuming you're here because that's not really the way you've lived your life. And then the other method I would say is entertainment. That's how they're selling these things too. So for example, like most, I think all All 32 NFL stadiums and most sports stadiums now have facial recognition. They're not even really selling physical tickets anymore. Maybe some of you have seen this at some of the stadiums. I don't think there's much resistance there. And I mentioned the entertainment as well, like with video games, for example. A lot of your younger friends and family members, there's features like, let us scan your face with your webcam and we can put your face on your favorite character in the game. It'll be really cool. That's data collection, right? So there's all these different ways— fear, convenience, and entertainment, I think, are their main methods. All right, final one I want to mention on before we start talking about Liberation 2030, and I share a little bit about my own personal journey here, is the financial system. This is one of the most difficult ones, and I've again have no quick easy fixes here, but I do think that there's some ideas we can start to work on. Briefly, why would we not want to participate in the mainstream economic system. I touched on the financial collapse of 2007-2008 already. Banks robbed the American people blind, sold a bunch of people shitty loans knowing that they were going to crash, and then when they crashed, people lost their homes, people lost their savings, and on top of that, the government then bailed out the banks by taking money from the taxpayers and letting, you know, the banks survive, right? And yet many of you probably right now have your money in those banks. This is not a call-out. This is not shaming anybody. This is a moment of reflection. We're taking actions that are inconsistent with our beliefs. We're supporting evil systems. We could go on and on and talk about the problems with the mainstream banking systems, the economic system. Did you know that HSBC, that big bank, has been caught with human trafficking? Did you know that Chase Bank helped Jeffrey Epstein launder his money that he used to pay off his victims? We could go on and on and list the problems with these institutions, not to mention just that the foundation of it is corrupted. Fractional Federal Reserve banking, debt-based slavery, central banking, all— I encourage you guys, and I assume most of you have gone down those rabbit holes. If not, watch James Corbett's documentary, The Century of Enslavement, if you want to learn more about that system. Point is, there's lots of problems with those systems that I think most of us would say don't align with what we actually believe, and yet we use them daily, most of us, because it's convenient. The bank's on the way home from work. It's easy. I've got my whole life in there. I've got my 401. Okay, I've got my stocks, I've got all this direct deposit. You might be tangled up in that system. Maybe that's where you're at now. Maybe you've got credit card debt, student loan debt, right? You're fully in that economic system, and that's where you are now. But you have a goal, a vision of a liberation 2030 that is less dependent on those systems. For me personally, I haven't used a bank account since 2008, and not because I was awake in 2008, but I was a young kid and I had a bank and I overdrafted a couple times and I thought, maybe I kind of suck at this thing. I'll just take a break. Thankfully, I started waking up a couple years later and by 2011, when I was going to file taxes for the first time in my life, I decided not to talk to the IRS and we don't talk. We don't talk. And so I haven't had a bank account since 2008. I don't talk to certain agencies. Not easy. You throw a felony on top of that, even more challenging, right? So I'm just saying it's possible. I also am not advocating that you guys live my lifestyle or anything like that. I get that we all come from different backgrounds. And so what I'm advocating for, I think, is easier— I'll acknowledge it's easier for me to say that because I never got plugged into the system. I've never had a credit card. I'm 41 years old, and I never owned a credit card. Those are things I chose not to participate in. I get that that's not where you may be coming from. But I do still think that there's value in starting to think about how you can become free from those systems. So how do you do the exit and build when it comes to economics? One thing is, let's say you do have your money in the big banks. Join a smaller local credit union. Join a small independent bank. They do exist. They are here in New York City. That is a step, I'd say, in the right direction. You're getting away from at least supporting Jeffrey Epstein's favorite bank to supporting something local in your community. And if you know how credit unions operate, you tend to actually be seen as members. You can actually vote sort of how that money is used in your local community. You have really no say when it comes to the big banks. I think that would be a step in the right direction, right? So you're here in this system, you're taking a step to get sort of more aligned with your values and principles. I don't think that's the end of the road though, because you're still using Federal Reserve notes, you're still participating in their system. And if and when things do go central bank digital currency, the credit unions are going to go too. So the credit union takes you away from supporting the big evil banks, but it's still within their system. And the head of the credit union, it's called the National Credit Union Association, he regularly speaks at the World Economic Forum, and he has said that they support central bank digital currencies. So, if and when the money does go digital, the credit union's gonna go along with every other bank. There won't be a difference in that case. So, like I said, I think that's a step in the right direction. I don't think it's the end of the road. What's beyond that? A lot of really difficult ideas. Like, some people really support barter networks. I think that's a great idea. I think they can only take you so far, but I think it's valuable. Some people are into time exchanges, time banking, all these different types of alternative methods of exchanging value and goods together. Alternative currencies. Some people are really into precious metals, gold, silver. I hold a little bit of silver. You know, I try to basically diversify as much as possible. Personally, I think anything you do taking your money out of that big bank, whether it's in the local credit union or stuffed under your mattress or in the safe at home, is better off than letting it be with the criminals. Like, I mean, that's just kind of my approach. I know that that's scary, the idea of taking your money all out and putting it somewhere else or even keeping it at home, but I think it's better off than giving it to those people. Not only that, one of the things I think people often forget about is investing in yourself, right? Giving yourself skills. Take that beekeeping course. Take that permaculture course. Give yourself more skills, make you more valuable. And if there ever is a shit hits the fan scenario, a person with skills is a lot more valuable than somebody who has none and hasn't, you know, and has a bunch of money in the bank. If shit's hitting the fan, people are gonna be like, okay, your money's worthless now. What do you want me to do with that? But if you've used that money and invested in yourself, then you might be in a better off position. So trying to get free from those systems, I do think things like precious metals might be one of the ways. I will say, just from my personal experience, I have used crypto as one of the ways. I just wanna share about that really briefly. I know this can be controversial for some people. I started going to Bitcoin conferences in 2012 as a journalist, just trying to understand, like, what the heck is this thing? Back then when I was waking up, it was the End the Fed movement and Occupy Wall Street, and people were talking about what are the alternatives to the banks, how can we operate? People were talking about people's banks and mutual aid banks, Talking about using silver, alternative means of exchange. And then this Bitcoin thing came on the scene. In the very beginning, it was very much a freedom-minded community. The people who were promoting it thought like, this might be non-government money, this might actually free us from the banks. Unfortunately, Jeffrey Epstein and his friends got involved, and that's, that's true. And within a couple of years, the vision of Bitcoin as a revolutionary currency— this is a way to opt out of the banks, this is a way to defeat the Federal Reserve became Bitcoin is an investment. It's a stock, and you might get rich. And that's what people learned about it. Most of you, if you've heard about it, you probably think that's all it's for. But originally, it was the idea that it was a real-world currency that we could use to get away from the government. Unfortunately, it's lost its way. But the reality is there are others that do exist. I use Monero and Zaino. That blue flyer that you guys have is for a private crypto called Zaino. They're, they're a big supporter of what I'm doing, and their message is the same thing. They try to give people ways to use money, currency, in this case cryptocurrency, as a way to exchange value and do so without governments, without banks, in a private and encrypted way. There's a little bit of a learning curve, there's effort, energy, just like with everything else, but read that flyer when you get time, look into them. And just as an example, as Manish and I are traveling, we got a rental car, drove from Texas all the way over here. I paid for that rental car using crypto, using a website called Travala.com. There are ways for you to actually use this, and that's my main goal. That's why I accept it for my books and shirts. I want it to be a real-world currency, because if it's not, it's just funny internet money, right? But we need to get to a world where you can go to the dentist and pay with this alternative currency. You can go buy your clothes and pay with an alternative currency. So I want to invite all of you, if you're an entrepreneur, If you offer services, a small business person, it doesn't take a lot of effort to open up a wallet. And I would choose Monero or Zeno. Those are the only ones I would even vouch for in terms of privacy. You might not immediately get a rush of customers, but you have that option available. And to me, that's really the picture, is if we create alternative systems where we actually have the opportunity to spend them and use them for our daily needs— now, convincing your landlord to accept it for rent might be a little more challenging, but finding ways to use it where we can, we start to become free from their systems. And again, that's going to take time and energy. So I'm just throwing that out there, that that's been one of the ways that I've allowed myself to move between cash and digital payments without using banks and without talking to that one government agency. It takes effort, but I think it's worthy. Now, I'm going to start to wind down because I know we're getting short on time here. I want to emphasize the importance of community here. There was a question about what Freedom Cells are. FreedomCells.org is the website. For those of you who've known about it for years, we've actually recently rebuilt it. It's working, functioning for the first time in a couple years, and there's about to be a new website that we're building. But it's basically just a way for you to find like-minded people. If you're here, you're around like-minded people, so maybe you don't need the website. But if you're going to go back to an area where you don't know anybody locally, FreedomCells.org is a way to find people. There's a lot of Freedom Cells groups on Telegram and elsewhere. And basically you can join, you could put, here's my interest, here's my skills, here's my goals, and you can add yourself to the map. We don't want your home address, just put somewhere near you, and then search the map. And you could say, show me everybody within 5 miles of where I live, show me every group within 10 miles. Oh look, this group meets once a month, let me go visit them. Leave the digital stuff behind, meet in the real world, make those connections. Or maybe you find somebody in your area, oh, this person also cares about homeschooling, oh, this person also is into alternative currencies or permaculture. Let me message them. Hey, would you like to meet up for coffee and get to know each other? That was the whole purpose. And thankfully, Freedom Cells really took off. I've been promoting this idea for a decade of localized, decentralized organizing, but it wasn't until COVID where the idea really took off. And so prior to COVID, our website, I think, had about 1,000 people on it. It went to 40,000 during COVID And I still get messages from people as far as Spain and India and Australia and Germany, all over the world, who use the website as a way to find like-minded people. So I still think that concept has value. We're trying, like I said, to get the website functioning and going forward because I think we need that right now. But if you haven't been on in a long time, I encourage you to go to FreedomCells.org. If you've never been on, just create an account. And if you search and you don't find a group in your area, you are nominated to start the group. Be the activated one. Don't wait for somebody else to do it, right? So I just want to emphasize that, that everything I'm saying, guys, is much easier when we work together. It's a lot harder to take on as one person, one individual. But coming together, I think, is the key, is setting these goals of, you know, let's say you have your 7 or 8 members of your local Freedom Cell or hub or hive or circle or whatever you want to call it. The first meeting should be, what are you interested in? What are your goals? And you find the common values. Hey, everybody here is interested in food security. Okay, how about we set a date? Let— next weekend we're all going to go volunteer at this local community garden and learn a little bit. Oh, everybody's also interested in getting on encrypted communication. Okay, together let's all ditch the Gmail and let's join Nextcloud or other solutions like that. So the Freedom Cell is kind of like your activist support network to focus on these exit and build ideas. freedomcells.org is the website. Now I want to tell you about what I've been doing with exit and build for the last 5 years because I went on tour in November 2021. And it's just been a wild ride since then. But largely the reason I haven't done any other than a few public events over the years is because I've been focused on my exit and build journey. I put a lot of work, as you guys know, into books and documentaries and podcasts and interviews and all this stuff. And I started to realize over the years, wouldn't it really suck if the shit hit the fan and I've been telling everybody else to get their stuff together and I didn't take care of my own foundation? So I had to spend the last 5 years focusing on home base. And in March 2020, Miriam and I decided to move to Mexico. We— her family's from Mexico. She's first generation in the US. And we've been visiting Mexico together for years prior to COVID. And we knew that one day we wanted to move there. We didn't have any kind of real plans, just like, yeah, we'll go settle there sometime. Then COVID happens. It's January 2020. We're doing our annual Mexico trip. And I'm watching it like my first reports on COVID were in January 2020. Like, Something weird's going on in China, and so we were kind of keeping an eye on whatever was happening. We came back to Houston March 2020. All the toilet paper was gone. It was just all of a sudden, like every toilet paper had run out. We had to go all the way back to Mexico to get toilet paper. So the toilet paper is running out. People are freaking out. Trump starts actually was here. Trump starts talking about restricting interstate travel because remember, you guys were the first hotspot. They're checking license plates. Leaving New York City, going to Rhode Island, like all this stuff's happening. I'm like, oh no, no, this is it. This is something. This is not what they're telling us. And so March 6th, we like right away, we knew what was happening. We packed up her car, drove down to Mexico. I said, let's just go visit your grandpa. Like, I feel like we'll be better from a distance, 'cause at the time it was mainly just New York. And it ended up being the right move for us. We went to visit grandpa. We ended up in a city called Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. We'd never been there before, never visited a day in our lives. It just— synchronicity and divine plan brought us there. And we started to learn that every avocado you eat is grown within 50 miles of there. We started to learn that there's hot springs and cold springs and all these farms, and it's a land of rich resources. It's got its complicated problems like anywhere else, but it's a land of very rich resources. And so, summer 2020, we decided to move our whole life there. And by the fall, we were living in Morelia, and we decided we wanted to build a community out there. I'd started talking about this community back in my 2017 book called Manifesto of the Free Humans. I first described my vision of a community, not how everybody should live, but just my vision of what a community should look like. And it was called the Conscious Agora. And it was based on 3 foundational principles. One is just what I call sovereignty of the individual. That's bodily autonomy, self-ownership. You own your body. It's wrong for me to force you to do something with your body. You own the products of your labor. Golden rule. all that sort of stuff. That was like the foundational cornerstone of our community. Second set of principles was permaculture principles, that we're going to use permaculture in the way we design our buildings, the way we grow our food, the way we relate to the land, etc. So sovereignty of the individual, permaculture. And then our third core value that I envisioned for this community I was going to do one day was just mindfulness, which is kind of a broad way of saying that we're trying— we wanted to work with people who are not static, no matter what your age is, that you wanted to keep growing as a person. You know, some of us are kind of set in our ways, and we don't want to try new things. For us, this also meant things like nonviolent communication. Basically, we were looking for emotional intelligence, emotional maturity. It also meant that in our community, everybody must meditate for at least 10 hours a week. Wow. I'm just joking. That's just— that's what— no, hell no. That would violate the first principle. No, it just meant, like I said, mindfulness, like people who want to keep growing, right? So that was the original vision of this community: sovereignty of the individual, permaculture, mindfulness. But I was originally trying to do this in Texas, and then, as I said, COVID happened. Miriam and I moved, and we're like, all right, we're going to do it in Mexico now. October 2020, I announced through my channels, guys, I'm building a community in Mexico. If you're interested, reach out. We got 500 emails from around the world. I mean, all over the world. Of course, this is COVID, so lots of people are like flipping out like, I gotta get out of my country, can we come? I'm like, we don't even have land yet, like slow down. And so Miriam and I created a simple questionnaire, you know, how many people are in your family, what's your vision of community, what's your timeline, what skills do you have, these sorts of things. We sent that back, we got 200 responses from people. We put that on a non-Google spreadsheet and we narrowed that down to 50 people, 50 households, couples, families, individuals. And in November 2020, we started having these biweekly online calls just getting to know each other. And from November 2020 till about the end of 2022, as we're having these calls, Miriam and I are also going to visit property all around Mexico. We're visiting communities in Costa Rica, the US, like all over, just trying to learn as much as we can, visit people who figured this out. What are you doing right? What are you doing different than what we want to do? And just learning so much and also trying to find the land. And from that time till about the end of 2022, the group went from 50 households to 45, to 30-something, to 12, naturally went down to 3 households, including myself and Miriam. None of it was bad. It was all just like the more clear we got on our vision, and also some people kind of calmed down. They're like, okay, maybe I'm not ready to move my whole life yet. Because there was a lot of panic, and unfortunately, people were rushing. We saw a lot of people move to Mexico because Mexico ended up being the only country that never had any quarantine requirements, vaccine requirements, any of that stuff. So a lot of people moved. Maybe they met through our event or something and they're like, you like freedom? I like freedom. Let's go buy land. And then 6 months later, they're suing each other, tangled up with money because they realize, wait, maybe there's more than just not wanting to be vaccinated. Maybe there's some deeper levels of getting to know people, right? So we were taking our time, getting clear on our principles. By the end of 2022, it was 3 households, myself and Miriam and 2 other gentlemen. And that's what we call our founding family. And instead of adding anybody else, we were like, okay, We've been through some stuff together now. Before we open up again, let's focus on the foundation of the community. So we spent the next year and a half or so working on our conflict resolution agreements, decision-making agreements. We use sociocracy, nonviolent communication, working on our entry and exit process. How do people enter this community? How do people leave? You know, what are the different guidelines and ideas? And you can't plan for everything, but the goal is to have systems in place so that when things Maybe you guys aren't all on the same page. You have something to refer to. Wait, here's our basically our constitution. Here's everything we all agreed to. You signed this. I signed this. We said, hey, if we can't solve a problem amongst ourselves within three months, we hire an outside mediator. Well, here we are. We all agreed to that. Whatever the case may be. So we spent a lot of time laying the foundation, doing the human mechanics before we ever built anything, before we ever added anybody else. And then in 2025, we added. We opened up again. I said, guys, if you want to. try out to be a part of our community. We're opening it up. We got 15 applicants, what we call activators. And over the last year and a half, those activators went from 15 to— there's 6 now. 4 of them have joined our community. So we're at 6 households right now, and 2 more families are being vetted and potentially will join. We're basically trying to build a Freedom Cell, 8 to 10 households, families, couples, individuals living on this property. And we actually did find the property. Along that path, we started, as I said, we were searching all over Mexico. go elsewhere. We found this property that's 23 acres. It's got 150 avocado trees. It's got bananas, limes, pears, pomegranates. It's got 2 fresh springs of water coming out of the ground, a pond at the top. The western and southern border are a nice-sized stream that are deep enough for somebody my height to swim in. Just so much beauty, so much gift from the Creator. And we had found other pieces of property that were flatter, maybe more affordable, But they didn't have any food, they didn't have any water. And so we, after a while, we decided to make this happen. Actually, when Miriam and I first saw this property, it was May 2020, right when COVID was going on, before we even sort of started the community thing. And well, the property cost $180,000, and I didn't have that, and Miriam didn't have that. So we were kind of like, well, it's beautiful, but I guess this isn't for us. But as we kept searching through Mexico looking for properties, we just kept getting called back like, we need to make that property happen. It's like, it's there, it's ready, it's waiting. And as I said, we don't come from wealth, so I understand the financial challenges. I don't have a lot of life savings here, so that's why we took our time, because I can't make a mistake and screw this up and just start over again. I need this to work, right? But also, we kind of came with a simple model of, as members joined, the money that they bought in with went into the pool. And being in Mexico, there's a little bit less bureaucracy, so we were able to create a private contract, a legal contract with the previous owner, and And we put some money down, and we paid him off bit by bit. By January 2025, we paid off the land. We didn't involve a bank in any part of it at all, and we now own the land collectively. Thank you. And we— so we own the land. This year in 2026, you've heard me mention the People's Reset. That's a 5-day event we host every year in Morelia. So our land's an hour and a half into the mountains, but in the city. We host this 5-day activation. It's about all the things we're talking about here. We get about 400 people from a dozen countries that come together just to focus on these ideas. If you're ever interested, some people in this room have been there. Danny and Vanessa have spoken and been involved. I invite you guys to come, March 2027. So after our event, we had our whole community there and we went to the land together and we all got to walk the property and choose our home sites, choose where we're going to— the piece of the earth that we're going to take care of we're going to build our homes. Because out of the 23 acres, basically everybody has access to the fruit trees, everybody has access to the water, but you have your own quarter acre to build your home that you design, your vision, right? So we got to walk, and each of us picked our property. Miriam and I got to stand on it. It's like, this is it. This is where we're going to build our home. This is the piece of the earth that we get to take care of, you know, and that we get to make our own as we build this vision. That was a really big step. Then a couple months ago, we bought our first farm truck, the community, using all of our funds. And we're thinking of calling him Truck Norris. And he is— Truck Norris is helping us cultivate the avocados, like pick the avocados easier, 'cause I didn't know anything about avocado trees. Like one tree can produce like 400 to 500 pounds of avocados. I mean, it's ridiculous, like the amount that comes through one tree. So trying to harvest a bunch of avocados and take them home in a little Volkswagen Tiguan is pretty difficult. So now that we got the truck, we got— we're gonna move forward. We're also in the process of buying an oil press, we're gonna start bottling and selling our own avocado oil. It will not be a registered business. It'll be underground, kind of the way I roll. So it'll be— you'll have to buy it at events like this. I'll buy it. And yeah, we're also working on our own mezcal from our agave on the property. A lot of business ideas. But most recently, before I came on this trip, Miriam and I just bought our first 100 blocks of sugarcrete. Have you guys ever heard of hempcrete? Hempcrete. So hempcrete is an alternative concrete building material made from the hemp plant. You know, that's where cannabis comes from. But the hemp, as you guys know, it's, it's a durable material. People make it for shirts and rope and all kinds of other products. But if you take the hemp stalk, the fiber within, basically over the last couple decades, people have learned you can take that fiber and you can combine it with lime and some other materials. Some people use sand, and you can make these blocks, these bricks that you can build homes with. And it's mold-proof, it's fire-resistant, it's soundproof, and it's taking what would be a waste material and using it to build. And so people have been experimenting with this. You can find some projects in the US, but I'd never heard of sugarcrete till just basically the last couple months. And basically the same group of people who are working with Mexican farmers on hempcrete, they're doing sugarcrete, which is the same concept but with sugarcane. You know, that's where all your sugar comes from. So when you harvest the sugarcane, you're left with a waste product that's called bagasse, and typically it's just burned, you know, smog gets into the communities, some of it gets into the water, and well, people have learned that you can do the same thing. You can take that waste product, take that fiber, and you can turn it into a durable brick that can be used to build homes. Fire resistant, mold proof, sound proof. And this same company is also experimenting with coco-crete and agave-crete. Same concept, but taking these natural materials which are typically wasted and making building material. And if you look up sugar-crete, there's less than 10 projects in the world of people who are even doing this. It's really exciting to kind of— that we have access to this, that it's now— you know, we had been interested in hempcrete, but before it was like, well, we got to import it from the US, or some people get it from Europe and stuff like that. It's like, that's going to be super expensive, customs, this and that. Then all of a sudden we find out there's farms in our state, like right nearby, doing it. So right before I left, we went and picked up 100 sugarcrete blocks. And when I come back, we're gonna— from this trip, we're gonna buy a few more hundred, because on our quarter acre there's this old building that apparently was used as a school for kids by a couple owners before us. And so it's got a concrete foundation, it's got some old walls that need to be repaired, but it's got strong support beams. I saw your video. You saw the video? Yeah, I put a video about this a couple weeks ago. The roof needs to be replaced, but basically we're gonna replace it with sugarcrete. We're gonna build our little tiny sugarcrete home. And the idea with the community, besides us building our village, is to create what we call the Holistic Education Center, where this can be a place to teach people these ideas. And look, I know that a lot of these— somebody mentioned this earlier with the finances— like, you guys seen the retreats and the permaculture courses that are $5,000 and this and that? Like, I can't afford that myself, just being real. Like, we want to make this stuff affordable and accessible to people. Same thing with our event, The People's Reset. We try to keep the cost as affordable as possible because I know what it's like to be a broke activist just trying to change the world and not having a disposable income, right? So we want to be able to teach these and I kind of see our land as like an activation boot camp. Like, we're gonna build our lives there, but also we wanna bring people there to learn the spiritual stuff, to learn the natural building stuff, to come get off big tech, all the things we've talked about. And so that's kind of the bigger vision. Probably by next year, we're gonna start having our first little gatherings. We'll see what the future holds. But yeah, that's my liberation 2030. That's what I've been building for the last few years. And, you know, All of that took time and energy, and at any point in that challenge, we could have given up because like, oh, it's you know it's too difficult. How many meetings are we going to have to have to figure this out? There's all kinds of challenges when you're talking about building community. For one, you got to get clear on what does that word even mean to you. Some like we're in a community right here, right? This is community. We're all a part of online communities. Some people community means just living in the same neighborhood as like-minded people. That's community. For some people, it means buying land next to. Each other. For us, it meant one piece of land, but you own your own home and your own things, and we're gonna bring together the benefits of our individual lives balanced with community, right? So getting clear on what your vision is of utmost importance. I wrote a freaking book about what my vision was so I could understand it. And I want to think about this, guys. You've heard the you will own nothing and be happy stuff, right? You've heard that phrase at some point. So this comes from a World Economic Forum 2016 essay called Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better. And that's sort of what they want to convince us of, right? And it's this vision, it's written by this Danish politician where she was describing the future, and they want it to sound like it's a utopia. I think to most of us it would sound like a dystopia. But the interesting thing about that essay, and I invite you to go look for it, halfway down that essay she says, sometimes I think about the people we left behind, the people who the political changes were too fast, the people who didn't like the technological changes. They now live outside of the cities in 19th century towns and self-supplying communities. That's us, guys. That's us, or some of us, right? Maybe some of you are going to choose to stay in the cities, but that's going to be some of us out there. And even though they make it sound like it's some dystopia, that's going to be us building permaculture communities. You know, it could be communities that are based in religion and spiritual beliefs. It could be based on, you know, common values. That, I think, is part of the solution. Again, I don't think the only answer is to get land, and I don't think the only answer is to go to Mexico, Mexico. We need freedom everywhere. Like, I think it was you that's saying we need to be the light in the darkness sometimes. Sometimes we need the good people in the heaviest of places like New York City. But the alternative parallel networks, I think, are the answer. And for me, that does involve getting land. I mean, I think if people are telling you you're going to own nothing, it might be a beneficial thing to own something when they're trying to control you that way. But if even the World Economic Forum acknowledges that some of us are not going to go along with the agenda and some of us are going to exit from their systems, I think there's something there. And so I put a lot of time into designing my Liberation 2030, writing it down. I actually wrote my own version of this essay you can find out there. It's called Welcome to 2030: I Own Land, Live Amongst Like-Minded People, and Life Has Never Been Better. And I actually turned it into a mini-documentary you can find on my website called Liberation 2030. My point is I put a lot of energy into really understanding what I want. We started this conversation out by saying how many people that we know, and maybe even some of you at the moment, get sucked into the conspiratainment, the infotainment, just consuming the podcasts, just consuming all this stuff. That's fine. Be informed as long as it's helpful, but put some of that energy, if not the majority of it, into understanding your vision. I want to invite you guys, as you go home in just a bit, you settle into your beds with a pen and pad or your phone, put some thought into what it is you're aiming for. It's one thing to know you don't want to be force injected. It's one thing to know you don't want the Great Reset, but what do you want? What are you fighting for? What are you aiming to build? Put some energy into that. And if you're a creative person, you're artistic, draw it out, design it, really see it, see it in your mind's eye. That's what it takes. We have to know where we're aiming so we can get there. And then we have to set a plan and start taking concrete steps to get there. And I don't know if we're gonna see it in our lifetimes. I don't know if we see the fruits of our labor, but I do know this is about the coming 7 generations and beyond. And in our indigenous communities, we're taught to think about that. We're taught not just to think about how what we do affects us right now, but our children and our grandchildren and the great-grandchildren and so on and so forth. People that we're never going to meet, but are 100% depending on us. The world that they're going to be born into is dependent on what we do or do not do. And everybody here in this room, the vast majority, you said, I know what the Great Reset is. I know what technocracy is. I know what Agenda 2030 is. So nobody in here can claim ignorance. So if we can't claim ignorance, if we can see what potential lies out there and we choose not to act, I believe we would be selling out those coming 7 generations who are dependent on those of us, for one reason or another, who can see what's happening. Not only that, I think it's important for us to extend that 7 generations principle backwards and to think about the people who came before us— your parents, your grandparents, and if you were lucky enough, maybe you met your great-grandparents. And so on and so forth. Every single one of us, no matter what your skin color is, no matter what your place of birth is, every single one of our ancestors had to go through blood, sweat, and tears to get us to be here right now, living, for the most part, relatively easy lives compared to some past generations and their struggles. And again, I think if we choose not to act because of doubts, or because it's too hard, or because we're lazy, or because we're afraid, we're selling out And betraying all the work that they put in to get us here, and we're selling out those seven generations coming after us who are dependent on us. So I just want to remind you, my friends, in closing that no matter what these people try, whether it's COVID 3.0 or Hanta virus or Iran war and inflation or all this weird talk about aliens and UFOs, no matter what cards they play, we can make it through it. But we need each other. Put your energy into that liberation 2030, and don't forget about the seven generations. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you. I think we got to be out of here in like 10 minutes, right? Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have to be out of here in like 10 minutes. Also, I don't think I have the right cable to play my music here, but can I give you guys an a cappella performance? a cappella song real quick, just in closing? Yeah. Okay, so 2 things. I'm gonna do that song, then we're gonna do the affirmation. If you've heard me before, you know the affirmation. But so real quick, this is a song that I call Awakening. For those who don't know, I make conscious hip-hop. I hate to even put it in that box, but I guess that's one way to describe it. I go by the name 33. My music's at 33ishere.com, and that's because I'm a 33rd— no, I'm just joking. You can ask me why later if you like. 33 is healing, transformation, growth for me. I'll just tell you real quick. My birth father, the one I described earlier, he eventually did die of a drug overdose. Aw. And he died when I was 33 years old. And when I was processing that, one day I was in my room with a speaker like this, and I just put on some instrumental beats, and all this stuff just started to come out of me. And it was just— I grew up singing and, you know, screaming for metal bands and punk bands, but this was a different voice. This was something different. And out of that healing experience, I started making music, and 33 Started to show up in my life. And so 33 to me is healing, it's growth, it's transformation, it's transmutation. So this song is the last song on an album I put out telling my story of going from drug addiction and prison and waking up. It's called Awakening. I feel like there's this anger that I bottle up inside and I don't know what to do with it, but it's only a matter of time before I explode on these people. My patience has been tried. Why didn't I find my strength? Until my father died. Why does it take so much pain for me to become a man? Not sure I believe in fate, but I'm trying to trust God's plan. I always knew there was something more than just TV and fame. I just didn't realize how deep and dark they take this game. The moment I woke up, I realized evil was for real. People who spend their days lying, yeah, they kill and they steal. And nah, I'm not talking about your average street hustler. I mean the 0.01%. Who laugh as we fight each other. The hierarchy enslaving you are a bunch of psychopaths, and they keep on winning 'cause we just don't learn from the past. But God opened my eyes for a reason. It's the healing season. I had to go through hell to find my way. I exorcised my demons. I've never felt more powerful. Powerful than when I question the power. So full of themselves, lost in arrogance, but in reality, they're cowards. If you're searching for the devil, look no further than your government. The politicians are the puppets, but don't forget the false covenants. The false prophets, megachurches making profits, the devil's loving it. They lie to your face and you take it. Do you prefer to be ruled? Wolves in sheep clothing, they've got you fooled. They pull the wool over your eyes, feed you lies while they strategize and propagandize. Come on, my brothers and sisters. This is our moment to rise. They never saw us coming, but we are the antidote to their lies. We strive for truth and liberty. We strive to be better. Humanity's made mistakes. We're not perfect, but I know this ain't forever. I know we're destined to build the better world we know is possible, but it's gonna take struggle and making ourselves responsible for our choices and actions. We have the power to manifest that which we know we deserve. We are humanity at its best. Thank you guys. Thank you guys so much. Thank you guys. If I could, can we do my affirmation just in closing? The final, final thing. This is an affirmation. I've been using for over a decade. Helped me out when I went in prison. You guys have seen it on my shirts. If you've heard my podcast, it's how I always end my videos. So if you feel connected or inclined to this, please repeat after me. I am powerful. All right, I didn't come all the way to New York City for some half-assed. I am powerful. I am beautiful. I am free. Thank you guys so much. Let's hang out and get out of here at a good time.