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"We Can Do Better" documentary film transcription

Unknown Speaker (0:01)
Kingsboro is your community. You are the Americans that live there. You are the people and your commissioners and the governor shall listen to the people. There should be a democracy that is governed by the people of the people and for the people. You. It should not be a community that is governed of big business, by big business and for big business

Artelia Turner (0:38)
They want land owners raise their children there in I can't see our ancestors, letting, these people coming in and run us off the land. No, no, it's not slavery time. It was not slavery time Back in 1995. We own the land and our homes. You cannot come in here and run us away.

Speaker 3 (1:06)
Lead by the people, Kingsborough Community came together to kind of stop this. The efforts of big business and the white majority county board composed this on this comunity, this county. So it's another story of David versus Goliath.

Speaker 4 (1:24)
I came to tell you how I thought that bringing IBP to Edgecombe County was poison. Poison in every sense of the word, social, economic, and especially environmental junk.

Speaker 5 (1:37)
I want to talk as loudly as I can tonight because people are outside can't hear people in the hallway can barely hear. And I really don't think y'all have been hearing what majority the residents of Edgecombe County in eastern North Carolina had to say in the newspapers, in a telephone calls to you and response to general Speyer to get to his conspiracy when it was in the newspaper that was sent into him all of the people in this town are saying "no"

Melvin Hart (2:08)
When it was time to stand up, we stood up. We didn't consider ourselves to be activists, but there's a time for everything. And there's a time to [indiscernible] and the time to sow, there was a time to come together and stand up and that's exactly what we did.

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