else to reflect the momentous events of the past few years. that history it seems, is slowly being raised, adrian brown, al jazeera, hong kong people all over france and celebrating a national holiday with fireworks and parades. steel day marks the fall of the best deal. prison in 1789 that led to the uprising that help spot the french revolution. this year's events has been scaled down to 10000 attendees because of koby 19. ah, recapping your top story. so you, so far today, the afghan taliban saying is he's control of these spin bolduc border crossing with pakistan. but the afghan government is denying the arm groups claims that says his forces repelled taliban fighters. charlotte bellis is incredible for us with the latest. this isn't the 1st border crossing they have taken. it is the largest,

but it isn't the 1st they have taken in the last few weeks. they've taken some smaller ones up on the northern border of afghanistan, minnesota to g custom. and also on the iranian border, they took quite a large border crossing called is lum color. now we've talked to truck drivers who have come through there since they've taken the crossing. and they say yes, we're now paying taxes to the television thought we got a few kilometers down the road. when we had a government checkpoint, we'd been pay taxes to them. also. the us will begin evacuating afghan interpreters and other staff who helped american forces during the war. relocation flights will begin later this month for afghans who applied for these special immigrant visa program. unrest in south africa has been continuing for a 6th day. the president settle, ram a poster says he's looking at sending in more troops to quell the violence. at least 72 people have been killed in riots in the last few days. it respond by the jailing of the former president, jacob's zoom up,

but it has since grown into anger against poverty and inequality. iraq's prominent shia cleric says the government will be held responsible if it fails to act after monday's fine at a hospital. at least 60 people were killed inside the cook. 19 ward in the southern city of nasiriyah, australia has slashed the number of its international rivals by half to just 3000 people per week. that leaves tens of thousands of stranded australians facing and even more difficult task of trying to return home. racism from football fans in the u. k. could soon be punishable by law. the prime minister bar, as johnson told parliament that fans who make races comments online could be issued match bands. it follows the racist abuse towards 3 england players in the euro. 2020 final. those are your headlines. the news continues here on alex's era. after generation change, bonnie's right here in 30 minutes, sir. ah

ah ah ah ah, but i think the history of activism is rooted against now the born fi generation believe it is there time to fight for more people and just decide the welcome to generation change a global theories and it tends to challenge and understand the ideas that mobilize around i'm and a chinese and independent journalists based here in in this episode, we need to women who are working towards radically changed to address challenges and very did tend to be violent cloths and racial inequality and climate change.

me give me a point automated for at the end of apartheid. what do you think people don't know about the role of women in the struggle against the pond? i really think the way in which history is told it serves a purpose, right? which has also to reinforce, you know, a male dominated, a presence and power structure, right? basis, reinforcement of these marches, right? these men who come and save the vulnerable group of women which is inheritance the wrong and false women were organizing church, top self trade, union women when the treaty carrying the country back from shoulder in history.

continue to omit that. and i think what that does is that it continues to alienate women and their contributions and making society with a political social, even economic ah, we hear a constitution hell in johannesburg, and particularly in the structure, we are at the women's jail. why was this a significant space for you? when i think about the, the caliber a woman that we incarcerated in this case, you know, it literally just brings me in, or it's the persistence of women writing themselves into history even in the absence. right? and for me, as a young feminist, as a young actor was, that has been really pinnacle in grounding my own activism. as a new generation of the woke generation, we must never ever get tired of developing resistance strategies. i mean, if these women were able to organize themselves,

i know probably one of the most difficult conditions. i see no reason why i'm able to achieve, you know, the idea of building the bigger feminist global movement. you are now 20 thinks activists and he was 17. what was the sort of compelling factor that made you think? you know, i want to be active. there was a case go by the name of i mean poison and western cape. he was made them to pick your oh my gosh, i'm 17. she's 17. she got killed on the nights out and i was thinking about all the times. i like to jump to go out with my friends, right. what happened to happen to me? those are so much unique and similarity almost a decade later and i'm the, you know, the found the black women because i am not interested in the vehicle to be. 2

shows what ultimately black woman coca seeks to do is to really create some fight. he feel we don't want to live the violence, prevent society all the time. we want to become what i mean. i'm like, i want to be able talk to other people. johanna space and not worry about am i in the a 70. and you've already been an activist for a few years now. how did you start and what was it that major? so it all started in 2018 when we were taught to do some research on time to change . i grew a lot of cabin and di pc moore, the fax about how we have limited time and watching my future fade away. health of our environmental kind and what is nice is my activism was the society to do everything in my power to create a change. well,

i mean, some people will say that you know what this stuff is for people who can afford to have 5 different been recycled buds. you spoken to the fact that it does affect people who live in the townships 4 people. first time i came to realize the seriousness behind environmental racism. when i spoke to a friend of mine said when she was very young, she had to live with her grandmother was staying away. and we say there she developed breathing difficulties. and a few days when she moved back to the server, everything was fine. and that's when she made the link back to the equality and way too was so terrible that she, they will pass on that. and you can make that link with pulsate. how the opposing government basically subtract people in one area and indian people another area and

and gave why people that land that belong to those citizens that they just areas. and even though we live in a post a policy south africa that neglect is still carried out what has been rewarding and that you would consider big or small in achievement that you've been able to kind of get to with your work so far? i think one of the children that make a big impact on my life is when someone will come to me personally and say thank you for teaching me this. i've learned and now i know better. and now i can do better. i think the biggest achievement so also just making up appreciate a lot of activists around the world that has that and feed unless they mind. so being able to stand up in front of college and speak your mind as

a privilege and also maybe children when you, once again year people listening years of responding to catalog and articles theory. you're 17 and keep them into your 26. i'm wondering for both of you what you feel the defining values and elements of each of your respective generations. activism. ok, so firstly i belong to the 1st cohort of the born fees. you know, the generation that was just born after democracy in south africa. and i think for a large, you know, to a large extent, our activism is really centered and crowded around, holding our democratic government accountable. right, hoping for a significant change in the living conditions of use and just the population more broadly. so we do borrow a lot from the enter party struggle in terms of the music,

the songs kind of struggle songs that you thing and also some of the organizing and mobilizing. busy strategies, you know, we really still focus in terms of mass space movement building. and this is quite evident with the feasible for student positive across 26 institutions of higher learning, which saw university students demanding for free colonized high education. but of course, you know, the success of moments such as feasible for a large, the attributed to digital and online activism. and how that has also helped us in terms of shaping our own narrative, syria, you know, something about that. but what would you like to add? yeah, kinsey, we grew up in the age of technology, the world of social media. and that came with a lot of benefits in terms of with mobilizing people internationally. and especially now during a pandemic. what social media is also brought is lots of inclusivity because you moving away from just that mainstream media narrative and embracing

a diverse range of narratives and you getting to include so much more within your activism. so i think the inclusivity that social media has brought has been a key and defining factor with gmc rapid, as most recent use led to mass movement towards fees must fall. which, as you mentioned earlier, was the fight to you know, gain wide access for free, and d, colonized tissue education. what do you think it was about that movement? kids you meant that that made it resonate so widely with our generation? i think a big part of fisma for beyond issues of x is, was really holding government accountable to say to what extent are you prepared to sacrifice. busy an upcoming generation of young leaders and actresses. purely on the basis of keeping or be deliberate about keeping it commodified as a capital, as a racist system that continues to marginalize and exclude lex students

specifically from institutions of high. there are you about 12 with 15 when this was unfolding on the news media. what did it mean for you on a personal level to see young people really, you know, rise up on such a mass scale. it was really inspiring, is watching history unfold, read before my eyes. and while i didn't understand how the, how complex the issue was back there. and i understood the surface level of it, but diving into activism, the feasible activists. so one of the most inspiring activists that i look up to, i mean, the fact that some of them are still in jail to this day fighting for cause they believe in just shows how empowered they were and how inspired angry and passionate they would give you permission to be angry as well? yes. 100 percent. and like i said before, that anger just ignited passion to stand up and fight me. kid. do miss your as you

to you? should you the found a, in fact, of the black women's caucus, which among the many mandates you have, is looking into eradicating to silence. can you talk to me about the myriad of violence? is that for african women right now facing? i mean, when you speak about in the base violence, of course, you know, the mostly needed understandings around sexual and physical forms of violence. you know, and this is, and this makes, since, i mean south africa is seen as a rape capital globally. not privy. take to have and by the way, our famous side rate is 5 times higher than the global average. right. and so understanding around in the balance, been famous that has really been within the conceptual framework. however, as black women coke of we're saying that is it to serve as well as to reduce gena base violence and famous side to only physical and sexual forms of violence. you know, political violence, economic violence, environmental violence,

social violence, all violence is that country peach. the laundry facilities of women, and it's important that when we find solutions and we propose solutions that they must be multi problems and they must be classical so that they're able to address the sources of silence. so can you give me an example of what that work looks like or how you bring the solution to the public? of course, a lot of the steps and research than in south africa around in the base islands has attributed to a women's economic participation as a method drive of our nobility to gender base violence and famous side. so in 2019, on the 13th of september, when we march to the ritual square mile in africa and sent and demanding greater participation from private states in terms of, you know, their response to that, the violence were ultimately things you need to also be able to, you need to be held accountable for women's economic vulnerability because largely

when we think about grape and famous, i will always think about it within the confinement of the home. right. but the moment we made the business issue in economic issues, we're ultimately saying that the continuous subjugation and violation of women number one cuts the south african economy between 20 and 40000000000 red annually. right? and that also means that a part of our activate, part of our mobilize ation and advocacy requires us to make structural changes. sarah, it looks like you had something 100 within it needs systemic change. if you just bring change on one says this, that's of this is widespread. and in order for structural change to take place and the most effective change the case, it needs to be systemic. it needs to be institutionalized. so we addressing every level of the problem. yes, 100 percent fair. you started climate warriors and you're a part of the collective movement. tell me what kind of movement is and what would

you do with them. so the collective woman is a youth and laid into sectional time and group. and we aim to achieve crime, a justice through social justice and vice versa. so it's a group of young activists and recently i work has all been on social media and online because of the pen demik. so this year we working on climate change through patton, african context. so interviewing or having discussions with activists from uganda and kenya, and just broadening our perspective on climate change and how the policy making takes place in different areas around the world and different challenges and coming up with solutions. and then also spreading awareness and advocating and pushing for the climate, just as chartered movement to educate as many people on the climate change issue and exposing the intersectionality needed and bringing about inclusive between

within the time and justice movement. why do you think specifically in the south african context that climate justice has taken a backseat to other issues such as, you know, the ones that get to me and i was talking about. so i think in the past, obviously if you're looking at a pre democratic south africa where people are fighting again, so paul said redeem and fighting for liberation. come a change, understandably so is going to take a backseat. when you fighting to be free in your own country. but if you're looking at a post apologies africa when we living in a democracy, i think there's a huge sense of apathy from those impala that 1st the people empower putting profit before the people we living in. we stuck in this capitalist mindset . another issue is the climate literacy rates in south africa, extremely low, and that comes down to an educational issue. so apathy and the lack of climate

literacy course. what do you think? the intersections between climate justice and the kinds of justice that you know, your work strives really interesting. hey, i really like the fact that you know, breaking climate justice and social justice. and i think for large, you know, for a long time we've thought about climate just as a stand alone kind of struggle. you know, it's like sitting in the corner and nobody really wants to deal with. busy it, but what has been very important and has been quite a big eye opener for me myself, isn't as a feminist. is the workers been doing informal settlements and how when you spoke about literacy, environmental literacy. how we still struggling to make the connections at community they will between the environment and social justice claim example, one of the communities that the work came is called cuff, that a parking formal settlement for water and sanitation breakdown in infrastructure. and just listening to you. i can already see, you know,

how climate just fits into that, right. but i do believe that to a large extent, the climate justice movement has positioned itself as quite a white lead to movement, right? it has struggled to deal with the very concrete conditions that an ordinary person in south africa facie. but i think in a country like south africa, we need to be able to who and ground ideology and advocacy in the lived experiences of people on a day to day basis. what do you say to this climate change for the longest time has seemed like a very privileged issue. if i'm struggling to put food on my plate, why should i care about the quality? why should i care about little on the beach? and i think that come down to the needful climate, conscious media and was kind of conscious media inclusivity. so looking at climate change across the world. and also understanding that solutions that may

work in the west on going to work in africa for various reasons. we have different economies, different policies, different governments, different histories, it just would fit. and i think was very vital when looking at climate justice and trying to change is looking at it through an intersection of native. so instead of separating environmental factors and the social factors, bridging them to get close common justice and social justice intensity linked together to bring about positive change by tackling one. that solution is going to affect the other in either a positive or negative way, depending on what the solution is. so if you're looking at time to change geographically, climate change is going to disproportionately affect poorer black communities. so within your activism, you need to take within climate activism, you need to take into account classism, racism, sexism, homophobia,

flu, ample. it's a natural disaster. we're to strike those communities would be most vulnerable. and if you look at the way society treats those communities now imagine how much was it's going to be when a due to natural disaster is needed and needs to be brought to those communities. so advocating for human rights, you can pick and choose no form of oppression exists and isolation. i wonder what you both think, you know, the possibility of achieving your ideas and what a just world looks like. what do you think the input implications of a little bit and has on the work that you do? give me the, what i'm picking up and said capitalism, inheritance lee, you know, glorifies the individual, its limitations. however, in activism is that activism is not a one man show. greg, and unfortunately, capitalism has created and it's continues to co opt civic action and civic and

civic interventions and presents them as one man shows. right. we have the model that comes out, you know, this, you know, the intended sensation that comes out and is going to save the world. you know, i think what that does is that breaks down organic movement building strategies, right? i don't think we have any strong tangible movements that are being, you know, that are being nurtured, but instead what we're seeing with the individual acts of as rising and listen, i'm not saying it's a bad thing to have the popstars of a movement image. they're important, they keep the movement fun in dynamic, but i do think it's important that we lose our activism in communities because he's alternative realities every once you know the empty capitalist reality that we want to send minutes into sexual reality that we want is not going to be fostered by an individual, it needs an active, you know, it needs from

a collective in order to drive that mandate. and i think this is some of the critiques of capitalism infiltrating cervical activist work, you know, 100 percent community community based change is the most sustainable and effective change in the long. and if you're looking at capitalism in a capitalistic world, the most ideal position you can be in right now is to be a white man. and that breaks down so much, it breaks down the feminist movement and breaks down any movement laid by women. capitalism breeds the system of inequality. it's always going to be if i'm winning someone else's losing. and like you said, it's a very individual, a glorified individual work. and that is extremely problematic. it's also very problematic to have one face represent a home. and because it excludes people that don't match that face that don't match

the demographic. so yeah, definitely not carbon capitalism is the main cause to climate crisis. sorry. can i just add onto that? you know, i mean, i'm reflecting, reflecting such an important aspect of growing and as active as we should never stop reflecting. and when i think about, you know, the 2 parties movement. firstly, i know for a fact that many people who participated in those movements and those forms of resistance were not participating because they were individuals that they were idolizing is because they felt a strong sense of, you know, personhood. i mean, the issue is affecting me directly, therefore i need to actively participate in finding the solutions. and i think you know, the idea of the glorifying of the individual grubs as of that. and i think our communities of v to hold is grounded to hold us accountable, and to make sure that we are working and living within the ideals of the,

of the movements that we represent. well, i guess in closing, i'm curious if he, if it's not clear so far what you both hope to achieve and if you feel optimistic about, you know, being able to actually use those things, keep them at the i will, perpetual optimist. firstly as a disclaimer. so i definitely do think things will get better. i do think that you know, we need to intensify our demands and struggles, but also change on size of oppression and fighting. right. i think so many times you know what activism and how we traditionally be know, activism to be said, we take to the streets right to get our messages across. and although that is important, we also need to see some radical advancement and transformation in the policy in covenant cia's right. so as black women coco's, you know, at the heart of the solutions that we propose as a social movement,

is the realization and strengthening of feminist movements, which are going to foster feminist leadership. we need to see any mentions of new radical feminist leaders. really shaping the world to where we want to take it. right. and i honestly believe that we've got the right energies. we've got the minds. we've got the hots in this do it like i said, any as climate and diety. and the only thing i can thing on to the covenant is optimism towards the future. it drives me to constant the wake up and make the decision that this is what i'd like to change. and this is way, you know, that could be the change one to see an advocate for the change that you'd like to see. so i think the main goal is to just did the same urgency that we're carrying today with sending that to the hearts of our government. and i need to ship to demand the common emergency and to attack all of the social issues that we've unpacked today. because once again,

social justice is climate justice and vice versa. so yeah, i think unification needs to do a case like today between the generations and just, you know, keep the energy, don't let it die. i feel going up with social media. you see activism turns into a trend and it reads a lot of performance of activism and every year and every month there's a new hash tag and something use trending. and, and so treating activism and social issues as a trade make it, keeping that advocacy along constant action that lives within your heart. sarah, thank you so much for joining me and innovation change across the world. young activists and organizes around them of the motivated and

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