0:00More Americans are working multiple jobs to survive than ever recorded before.
0:05How are you supposed to manage time that's not even yours to begin with?
0:09The last time we fought for more time and won
0:13was over a century ago, when workers marched and bled under a banner that said,
0:178 Hours for work, 8 hours for rest,
0:208 hours for what you will.
0:22I love that phrase,
0:24what you will.
0:26I think of letting the sun hit your face,
0:29flipping cars when your sports team wins like we do here in Philly.
0:35Or doing absolutely nothing and not feeling guilty about it for once.
0:40We cannot optimize the life out of our lives now
0:43betting on a later that isn't promised.
0:47So I wanna propose something new.
0:49A time amendment. And it's built on three resolves.
0:53First, that time is a civil right,
0:56and no one's access to it should be dictated by how much money they make
1:01or who they are.
1:02Second,
1:03that joy is proof a democracy is functioning the way that it was intended.
1:08During the AIDS crisis, Dan Savage said,
1:10we buried our friends in the morning,
1:12we protested in the afternoon,
1:14and we danced all night. The dance is what kept us in the fight,
1:18because it was the dance we were fighting for.
1:21And third, rest is infrastructure,
1:24not a reward for a lifetime of hard work.
1:27It gives us the capacity to imagine and participate in our shared future.