been d, mark hated. we have also suffered more invasions from illegal miners, poachers and loggers. it's a never ending struggle. far from brazil, yet in the brazilian amazon, a star per trail of the ongoing tragedy faced by the enemy, people. for years they have borne the brunt of legal mining activities, the rivers points and with mercury, rendering water, undrinkable and fish, inedible. in 2023. soon after taking office president, losing us, one of the sofa sent a national task force to expel the invaders from the reserve and come back. what he termed a genocide was the one more than the year has gone by and nothing has changed. so unfortunately, the soon as the armed forces left illegal miners returned. every day we see their plains coming and going to sometimes 15 for the day before we on on a recent report shows that 94 percent of our people have high levels of mercury in their blood. this would be our people are being closing and our women are afraid of

their children and they call them the product they hang on a little cool like the yeah, no mommy face the same problem. yeah, i think well as the, the effects of american reposing or no immediate, they show up with time. we feel headaches, we feel weak. our children boom with deformities present lula has promised to health deforestation to increase the number of indigenous reserves. protesters say a lot more must be done. indigenous people here say they've come to realize that having government support is not enough. they're still facing strong resistance from the powerful farm lobby in congress. activists a deal, expand the fight from their villages to the countries court rooms and electing their own politicians to save their lives. monica, you're not give audra 0 for celia, but it's fine. and present nicholas mentor is to allow the representative to view

as human rights commission that to resume operations in the country murder or how the old of you and stuff to leave the country in february. and social criminal court is investigating the jury for alleged crimes against humanity that's optimal than a 100 protesters were killed in 2017 and the reason lima have lifted a mind to safety after a building court file. he said, thank good health, a local hospital within 10 fire engines, which is fast to control the blaze. assets from a lower. kyle, the news continues here off to the street, the cheering the fact, the more fossil fuels we burn the hot or the planet. we'll get we're forcing from the connection to fight says the federal government is committed to rebuilding it with the in this gen and as an age where it goes right directly. targeted and in

depth coverage. how is any of this except it is an acceptable. i'll just say it was teens across the well. bring you closer to the heart of the story. from the oscar to be emmy by a south by southwest. this use of wood things in housing seats in its own drama, eva who is and who isn't cooling for a ceasefire, but also never to use office and insurance is doing enough with them must have platforms to oppose the on store on gaza. i'm mary impulse law and this is the street the how do we get other actors to support the doing it tonight? there's so many people were in the fire. i applaud billy infinity of fees is big moment on the red carpet, to show the compassion as a stand up for what they believe is sorry to ruin anyone. celebrity worship party.

but really you want to cookie because you were a pin. she hasn't said this entire time. we are in month 5 of the genocide. she doesn't put anything on instagram. she hasn't made any statements. and then she shows up to this self indulgence elite, glad handing party, where they just give each other awards and tell each other how amazing they all are . and people are falling all over themselves because she wore a pin in which she didn't even say anything about it. why is the bar on the floor when it comes to celebrities? i ask myself, what happens to our humanity in the, in this moment, what happens? whoever says the is the number of celebrities have paid a heavy price. the speaking out on the is radius sold on gaza senior, do a lipa as well as bella and g,

g. d has been labeled venue. how much influence the brigades? but even those who stayed silent, who faced consequences, including backlash on social media. so are we expecting too much of celebrities office and insurances, or should they be doing more to use that platforms to take of funds? to explore this, i'm joined by a hollywood film and tv right to and direct that. com send you an american. but all that sold back in los angeles and palestinian american content creative yadda as i am from tow, tow a new jersey and nisa mood from seattle, washington, and welcome to you. we'll thank you so much for being here. uh, i would love to kick off with you and to talk about really the pressure that exists in, in hollywood today. you've spoken out in the past about being the only voice and the difficulties of being the only voice in the room. so as a filmmaker, let me start by asking you how difficult is it for you to be the only voice in your

community? if you are, of course, i think within my own community, i am certainly not the only voice. i mean, we have a, a, a, just an amazing swell of people speaking up around the world from all corners of the world. so that's been really beautiful. but with in hollywood itself, it certainly does feel sometimes like i am the only voice in the room and that i am the only posting invoice on the room. so that is definitely felt and how, how do i handle it? i mean to be very honest, i feel like. ready is my absolute not just duty, but of privilege to encourage others to speak up and to really, really use my voice with in the system to change the system. and you mentioned that there are all people within the so making community speaking up, do you think enough celebrities and public figures are using that platforms to speak up? do you feel emboldened by them by who already is doing that?

absolutely not. i do not feel emboldened by silence. it is something that has been um, i will say something about silence. it might seem like the safe route, specifically for celebrities and for people with platforms who are afraid to lose. i don't know their brand deals. busy however, it may seem the safe route, but it is not neutral. the silence is not neutral, it is aggressive, it is violent, it is devastating, and it is deadly. and is it? is that pressure? do you think these days on celebrities to speak up on gaza? i think there is more, more pressure. absolutely. uh and again, it comes from social media. it really, really does that is the platform where people are able to hold truth to power and are able to really connect with a or, or hold celebrities or influencers or whatever they want to call themselves to

account. and you are seeing that pressure rise and rise in from that clip that you just showed. people are smart people are a tude to when someone is being real and, and is really using their voice for truth versus just performative. people are a to into this, now we understand what is the difference between performance and true, ally ship and true. speaking out for truth, yara speaking up on gauze that has been described as the last to do in hollywood, do you think that is still the case today? i do think that it might still be the case today. a lot of people are hesitant to speak up, but i do think that a lot more people are speaking of now more than before. but there's also some celebrities that don't speak up, for instance. so in a gomez had put a story up saying that she doesn't think that a social media post will make a difference. and in that sense, i didn't think that that was the right move, is having hundreds of millions of followers saying something like that. can we make

people think that their voice doesn't matter when, as little as said that in this case, silence is violence and it's not taking a neutral stance. and at this point, people's lives are at stake. so i do think that one should anyone that has a platform that claims to care for the lives of people and for humanities should be speaking up no matter where they're from or what they believe. and um, i wanna ask you a nice uh about why some people on speaking off with sort of doing maybe move performative phones sorted. our see, why do you think that might be i think people don't speak up because they feel like they either don't have to. or i think a lot of times, celebrities and implementers in general like to enhance wise themselves and act as if they don't have the same access to information and are scared to spread misinformation and whatnot. when in reality, especially in america, we all have the same access to information. and i also think

a lot of celebrities in particular do not speak up because they feel as if they are going to get ostracized with in the hollywood community. and they are going to miss out on opportunities to get money. and i think at the end of the day it is really about money, which i think is incredibly disappointing when especially this is about like people's lives. so yeah, yeah. well, on the subjects of penalties which some artists, celebrities, fame, what impact them speaking up, this is acts up. michael ross report, seemingly threatening those who don't support israel with a loss of funding. i promise you it's being discuss paying attention to who's being at the jewish anti semitic israel or not saying anything at all. i promise you we see i'm, i'm, i'm in need a lot of jewish people see nice. see like we're, we're suckers seemed like you can kind of convince us, trust me,

6 months, 8 months, 2 years. we're remembering what painted. i don't know. i want to ask you, is this a type of pressure which you recognize? and i will say there is absolute pressure, and i want to talk about it. i will say, i don't feel any pressure from michael rapp, of course, certainly not. but i, what i want, i want everyone to notice, michael rappaport still, you know, is, is, is gainfully employed? no one dropped him. he is totally fine. in fact, his, his fiery brand is, you know, probably even doing better than ever before. but people who are not doing better than ever before, are people like my head, the he who is the top agency a who, you know, got stripped of her board position, got demoted. and if it wasn't for tom cruise, you know,

coming up who's she represents? she probably would have been fired simply for saying that what is happening is a genocide. you have people like says and threaten and drop by u t. a. you have people like melissa berrera who was fired from scream, 7, the movie, and the, and the list goes on and on. and if i may say for me myself, and i got a phone call from my agents the same as my head, the hills agency is it was my agency as well. and on monday, last monday they called me and they informed me that they are dropping me as well. now, the reasons that they gave were, you know, market situations. for me personally, it's hard for me not to feel that the way i speak out about full as being didn't have at least some influence on their decision to drop me. so it is it that the, the pressure is very real, the consequences are very real. but i will say that just as much as there are,

you know, consequences. net, negative things to that happening to people who are speaking up. there are also a swell of people who are supporting. i am talking to a talent agency right now that's extremely interested in exactly what i have to say . and we have some workers for palestine, who are a collective of artist within hollywood. the reason why the oscar started late was because of film workers from palestine because they blocked, you know, the whole tri state for, for people going to the oscar. so there is a, i think there is a, an increasing voice with in hollywood. and it is very amazing to see, but there are actual definite consequences. and um, for me myself, i think that i am totally okay with that. well, on that point, he's a tweet from a filmmaker down marcus on that speech at the all school, where he said, if you watch jonathan glazes, also speech in his hands with his hands were shaking and they were shaking because it takes courage to speak truth to power, especially when he knew his was could i'm like,

he would be met with backlash and he, so i want to ask you about this backlash. is there a full of counsel culture? do you think that we're observing in hollywood and beyond i think a 100 percent. that is what we're seeing. especially with jonathan's lasers speech . i saw i think it was about 450. i believe. um, people in hollywood that i mean sinus right on that side i think it was like a letter condemn a. so i think laser and if we look at what he said, he did not say anything about was that out there or crazy? right. he just said, i refute my jewishness, and hall cost me hijacked by an occupation and conflict for so many innocent people . and so he really didn't say anything about was when i 1st heard about a, i thought he said something way more about we need to and occupation is a genocide happening, a palestinian. so then seeing the backlash that you've gotten when he is literally

a jewish man who made a film about the holocaust. and he is now facing like defamation, essentially, and cancelled right within the hollywood space. so what kinds of phones this sort of diversity, all possible, do you think, given the circumstances, given the parameters that people are facing any so i think solidarity can show up in many different ways. i think people often like to think that solidarity can only happen in one way or another. but i think even just for example, celebrities can be re posting on their instagram stories from palestinian sources, talking about what is happening in palestine. i what i've seen also in some red carpets is people wearing the post them in flag, which i think is incredibly important. and especially when they're like israel is actively trying to raise palestine as a full hold on pulse demands that palestine isn't real like yours unless the doesn't exist. and so i think just speaking about palestine, because also

a great way to show solidarity is the more people that speak about palestine. the last that palestinians, for instance, will face repercussions and consequences for speaking out. yara, what do you make of some of the forms of solid iris you've seen from pins to cease fire badges to speeches? what would you rate the different forms that we've seen out there for now? for instance, the ceasefire pen is like you put the ceasefire pin on you wear it for a couple of pictures, then you not a peep any other time. i don't think that that solidarity that like i feel like we need it. one amplified causing invoices to speak up more than just where it pen because you're scared that maybe i don't know what the intention is. maybe it's scared of backlash when the person community may be to show solidarity. but to stand with palestinians is not to pick what is most convenient for you. i think that we've been facing occupation for long enough in genocide, so long enough and that we need our voices to be amplified and we need our story to

be told and we need people to stand with us. and i think for me personally i'm, i don't care what i lose for advocating for my people in for speaking up. and i just wish that there wasn't this like closing of fear of losing everything just for speaking up about palestine. well, let's talk about what sort of diversity looks like when slabs do get stuck in check this out part of schafer with the rest of today. well, protest the good sources for peace advocating for scenes fire and pals. i don't think people understand how big this is. hunter schafer, is one of the prime a list, jen z stars right now. not only does it put the rest of her a list called stars in tears, the shame it shows that no matter what platform that it is worth risking it in order to stand on the right side. it has a lot of the back of that i want to ask you do all forms of ally ships, martha? uh, yes, absolutely. all forms of ally ship matter, but not all forms of performative ally ship matter. i 1st want to give it to her.

yeah. to a hunter, um and just how brave she is. um uh and it is very, very, um and it is. um, it is people like her who uh, who really show us what it really means to put your privilege. uh and your ssl every on the line. um for one of the most profound moments in our modern history right now in the world. so. um, so yeah, i do think all forms of ally ship absolutely am. i'll give it a really good example. for instance, you know, if you're not like country who is, you know, on the line, for instance, brian cox, you know, who's, who's the lead actor and succession when he recites. if i allow to use, uh, pull uh, and records that and post that, that is. so profound, so it doesn't just need to be, you know, uh if you're not able to be on the front lines, there are so many other ways to really, really show and really amplify full of seeing and focusing the voices. and that is

a beautiful way. um, so to brian cox, i also wanted to my niece, i wanna put to you the counter argument. some might say, well look, you know, celebrities all to spend no x, but they don't necessarily know much about this. but being off the way in on something that they might not know very much about, you know, is it, we just expecting too much of celebrities and influences? i do not think that we are, i think it's anything we're not expecting enough from them. and again, i think that there is sort of this thing about a lot of influences. and so i really like to think that, oh, maybe i'm not educated, i'm so i can't speak out about it. you do not have to be an expert on the $76.00 or occupation of palestine to know that genocide is not okay. and not that again. i don't think celebrities should be like those. so like focal point, when it comes to talking about palestine but a 100 percent, think that they can be amplifying and up lifting calls to the invoices. and i think it's everyone's responsibility, especially for americans when our tax dollars are directly funding miss genocide

and are like us as an active participant in the genocide of palestinians. but every one, every single person i believe fully needs to speak up and have likes. so. yeah, i just think that they everyone has to do a little um let me, let me speak to that question back up. so these attainment industry has experienced a number of reckoning of the last 2 years, the rice and strikes me to move in the b l. i move and do use the new alliances and matching. um i, i would love to say that i do. uh, i currently don't. i just want to be very severely honest. i still think that there are just not enough uh, courageous, brave voices, but i do hope that that that is the case with in hollywood. but to be very honest with you. um, i do think that is the case within the world. just not within hollywood. i mean, you see, you know, just the protests, we've never seen protests like this in, in,

in modern history. just people from all walks of life from all parts of the world, showing up for full of things. so i think in this case, hollywood is actually going to be the one that's going to be completely out of touch with humanity and with people if they keep going like this. and um, let me ask you, you all reducing that's impacting the follower is that support is do you think that is going to be a sort of reckoning in terms of the assign base the some of these people who aren't speaking out a 100 percent. i think that for instance, when selina gomez posted again, i mentioned it's one of them is when she had posted that she doesn't think it's also media post matters. and then like her reasoning to not posting was more about herself than about other people. a lot of the palestinians start supporting her. a lot of people are staying with her. for instance, taylor swift had a song that it was turning on. take talk that people are using from the river to

the sea and you'll never find another like me. where as rallies are designed to store just singing to that song and dancing and saying that it will never find them of the like them. and taylor swift did not speak up about any of it so. so in that sense that we and it's not only pulsing, is this not only also? is this not only arrows anyone that is broke house time, which is now i feel like is more than ever people are um, cancer cancelling and quote unquote or on song them or not supporting. and that goes for explain a goal as terms of where beauty, even her company like no one words like i'm boycotting because again, we don't agree with her sense. so i want to talk about the emergence of these new spaces in this use south by southwest festival build as a convergence of tech film, music education. i'm culture. and of course, among the most common and statement festivals in america. so alters withdrawal on mass in an effort to show solidarity with the people of gaza. and we started this campaign, we were not anticipating nash boycotts. we just wanted to work together with the

musicians, knowing that their cultural labour is what south by kind of prophets off of, and markets itself on. and the artist took it upon themselves to say, no i, i can do you one better. but if it, it only been when it started, it was just a few. and so they weren't really headlines about it because no one's going to really pay attention when $56.00, maybe it doesn't, artist, drop out. but as the numbers kept growing, we reached, i wanna say 117. i don't remember the exact number and it's still growing as we find out people afterwards. but south by southwest publicly olives that they had about 2000 acts. and so we removed about 5 percent through the break up, which is not insignificant. and so it really only works because there was that mass action kind of aspect to it where individually we're not really making

a statement by boycotting but doing it together, doing it and tying it directly to the boy got the investment sanctions move meant by palestinian society the bigger impact we're able to make, and so at the oscars, you know, if a few people where pins, that's not nothing, i would rather see the way to pay this than not. but what i'd really like to see is people say on mass, i'm not going a lot your a south by southwest alone yourself. do you think there is this imagines as new alternative spaces that divesting from is riley you observing them? yes. yes. a 100 percent. um, uh i, i absolutely do. and i think it's, it is inevitable. i think i hearken back a 2nd ago about how hollywood is becoming more and more out of touch with the people and with humanity in general. and i think what you see, even within social media is people are hungry for real stories. they're hungry for

troops. and what you're going to see, i believe, is exactly what you said, is this rise in, you know, a kind of outside the system spaces where people can actually hear real true stories. and i do think that is currently led by the hunger for a full us the stories. and so i absolutely think so nice. i want to ask you about the forms as soon as i receive that you would like to see going forward. we are, of course, over 6 months in now to these hers, you know, if people can use that platforms, what would you like to see them doing with them? and again, i think re posting on their social media is from house demand sources and from reliable and accurate sources is incredibly important. and i think if i go down the route of influencers, i think they have an incredible opportunity to fit palestine into their needs as to

why they are influencers and why they have large followings. and i've seen this before with influencers, doing a make up look, that is palestine themes or cooking colors, demand food, or even like learning how to do tough trees. and it's all dirty with palestinians. so i think there is a way for every single person to speak up about palestine and figure out what works best for them. and again, i think just saying, genocide is bad and this, these 10 bare minimum is what people should be doing. hm. um, i will, i wanna ask you about these alternative sense as a power of cause. tyler perry now runs one of the largest is not the largest film production studio in the united states. you know, all, we're going to see the emergence of these new senses of power in the arts which refused to bow to financial constraints. and is that something that you all puzzled that you'll uh, part of developing, seeing how can now this foster it? oh, yeah, absolutely. i am seeing it and uh, and by the way, i want to say, uh,

i specifically see it specifically within uh black spaces in hollywood. and i want to give reference to that. um, uh, black america leads the way a lot of the times when it comes to, you know, uh, to fight for human rights for speaking out to human rights and for really changing the system. so i wanna get a big reverence to um, to the solidarity that on the black community. and the black artist community has, has been given, giving uh, the full listing improvement. um that's number one, number 2. um uh i so i myself actually was was inspired by what's been happening and i created a, an initiative specifically for exactly what you're talking about. it's called the safina filmmaker project. and it's initiative specifically to raise will to see the voices and projects to creative mentorship. so resistance or alternative storytelling and alternative bases of power within the ladies. on that note,

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