I came here to lend my support to you today, to offer my solidarity, for this unprecedented display of democracy and popular will. People have asked, « So what are the demands? What are the demands all these people are making? » Either they say there are no demands and that leaves your critics confused - or they say that the demand for social equality and economic justice are impossible demands. And impossible demands, they say, are just not practical.
If hope is an impossible demand, then we demand the impossible. If the right to shelter, food, and employment are impossible demands, then we demand the impossible. if it is impossible to demand that those who profit from the recession redistribute their wealth and cease their greed, then yes, we demand the impossible.
But it is true that there are no demands that you can submit to arbitration here because we are not just demanding economic justice and social equality. We are assembling in public, we are coming together as bodies in alliance, in the street and in the square. We’re standing here together making democracy, enacting the phrase « We the people! »