WEBVTT -- English 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:08.849 This was my house 00:00:08.849 --> 00:00:10.676 Where I raised my kids. 00:00:10.676 --> 00:00:13.874 This is where destiny lived, the little girl that had cancer. 00:00:13.878 --> 00:00:16.897 There's a person in that house that has cancer. 00:00:16.897 --> 00:00:18.978 This lady had cancer. 00:00:19.092 --> 00:00:22.964 And our leadership's not hearing us. They're in bed with the industries. 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.114 If another country come in here, blew up our mountains and poisoned our water 00:00:28.114 --> 00:00:30.190 We'd go to war. 00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:32.899 My name is Paula Jean. 00:00:32.899 --> 00:00:35.588 I am a coal miner's daughter running for the US Senate 00:00:35.866 --> 00:00:38.037 And I am mad as hell. 00:00:41.374 --> 00:00:43.338 New York isn't Democrat versus Republican. 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:45.201 New York is Establishment 00:00:45.201 --> 00:00:49.103 Versus whatever poor stray cat thinks you can stand up against them. 00:00:49.996 --> 00:00:51.985 When someone looks at me 00:00:51.985 --> 00:00:55.661 The bias would be to not take me seriously. 00:00:55.826 --> 00:00:57.396 Until I open my mouth. 00:00:57.539 --> 00:00:59.689 I am proud to be an American 00:01:00.475 --> 00:01:02.826 But we have to rise to that promise. 00:01:04.531 --> 00:01:07.150 What I learned through Ferguson was 00:01:07.150 --> 00:01:09.424 You don't have to have a name. You don't have to have the money. 00:01:09.510 --> 00:01:12.024 The problems that we have in our district 00:01:12.024 --> 00:01:14.409 Are problems that we ourselves can fix. 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.525 I myself can de-escalate a person with a gun 00:01:18.715 --> 00:01:22.266 And I'm not a police officer so I wonder how come they can't do it 00:01:25.343 --> 00:01:28.129 When you're running for office and you're not a typical candidate. 00:01:28.129 --> 00:01:30.816 You have to remember your "why." 00:01:30.837 --> 00:01:34.828 There's 30,000 people a year dying because they don't have healthcare. 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.221 This is a commodity. 00:01:38.780 --> 00:01:41.582 My daughter's life wasn't. 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:48.903 We have never seen this at this scale in American history. 00:01:48.909 --> 00:01:51.828 We have slates and legions of candidates 00:01:51.828 --> 00:01:54.025 That have rejected corporate funds. 00:01:54.025 --> 00:01:58.117 The Bronx does not need to be the poorest county in the USA. 00:01:58.117 --> 00:02:00.537 If change is gonna happen in St. Louis 00:02:00.537 --> 00:02:03.274 We have to believe that you are that change 00:02:03.343 --> 00:02:05.912 We work harder in these races just because we're women. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:07.679 We're not rich white dudes in suits. 00:02:07.689 --> 00:02:09.223 We're in this together girl. 00:02:09.223 --> 00:02:11.212 But politics is about power. 00:02:11.212 --> 00:02:14.578 The system fights to protect itself. 00:02:19.344 --> 00:02:21.307 We're doing something very controversial. 00:02:21.307 --> 00:02:23.126 We're daring to force a primary. 00:02:23.126 --> 00:02:26.899 Nobody owns you yet. You don't owe anybody anything yet. 00:02:26.909 --> 00:02:29.903 This is no joke, y'all, they're gonna come after you. 00:02:29.903 --> 00:02:32.253 My mom, she's afraid. 00:02:32.253 --> 00:02:33.610 I've had my life threatened. 00:02:34.046 --> 00:02:36.252 People try to use the fact that I'm a black woman 00:02:36.252 --> 00:02:37.907 To hold me back. 00:02:37.907 --> 00:02:40.704 I'm able to stomp through some doors that other people are afraid to. 00:02:40.704 --> 00:02:44.239 I'm not going to allow my daughter 00:02:44.239 --> 00:02:47.233 to have died for nothing. 00:02:48.310 --> 00:02:50.399 I just think they underestimate us. 00:02:51.699 --> 00:02:54.354 At the end of the day we're going to fight for each other. 00:02:54.574 --> 00:02:56.359 They need to know that. 00:02:56.359 --> 00:02:59.018 We're coming out of the belly of the beast kicking and screaming. 00:03:03.808 --> 00:03:06.878 Hi I'm Rachel Lears, the director of Knock Down the House. 00:03:06.878 --> 00:03:10.715 As a mother of a young child, I can't afford to be depressed by the news. 00:03:10.715 --> 00:03:13.400 I have to believe that a better world is possible. 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:14.811 Possible! 00:03:15.022 --> 00:03:17.103 The courage of these four women keeps me going 00:03:17.103 --> 00:03:22.103 And I know that their story can become a film that will change the way people think about democracy 00:03:22.747 --> 00:03:24.406 And keep you on the edge of your seat. 00:03:24.457 --> 00:03:29.457 My production team has the experience and skill to make this film and get it seen by millions of people. 00:03:29.457 --> 00:03:29.925 My production team has the experience and skill to make this film and get it seen by millions of people. 00:03:30.079 --> 00:03:33.840 But the story is happening now, in multiple places around the country. 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.840 We can't do it alone. We need YOU to join our team, or the film won't happen at all. 00:03:39.782 --> 00:03:43.248 Please support our Kickstarter, and share this as widely as possible. 00:03:43.248 --> 00:03:48.057 Thank you so much for believing in this film and bringing this story into the light.