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bring them laker games like no other. ah, welcome to generation change a global series that attempts to understand and challenge the ideas that are mobilizing you around the world. i'm not on an independent genet based on where jesse campaigners are fighting for radical change. the, with the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting economic allat political social unrest. and the devastation caused by august 2020 exclusion here. ah, in episode we need 2 young people using their skills to combat decades of corruption and victory. and they believe the total read that is the only way for

me oh, can you, can you send me innocent bits about your childhood? were there any specific moments or events that saved your political activism? the early part of my childhood was not really influenced by politics. but as i grow older gradually, and the minis my number, however, also with a lot of the ideas and concepts that were created by the ruling class in terms of the tech theory and innovations in the crisis. so at the end of the day,

for all the products and the dinner, jeez, and soon by the regime. but then i got exposed to various other ideas, movement groups that try to deliver an alternative vision for what the country may be, as opposed to what i learned to be as a child. why do you think that the club is important? and when it's have some kind of effect outside the scope of the news in a very love, besides the socio functions and thinking phase for students to know more about politics than the various development customer. it's a social group. and this group had to have the economic interests which had to be protected, whether it's leaning on addition back against the administration to protect student freedoms or needing one tuition strike, which protects the students right well,

on august, the 19 was basically the you student component of the film we can upgrade them, but it also transformed into a forest which is able to impose a certain this force and are you optimistic that sir mother network will emerge as it relates to movement and lebron on know the way i see another that's already been moved and then that's where it has an expensive social and then has thinking the grass root of attraction, thinking the idea that it should be creating a central morning challenged most like they're in for these initials based on the various other forces which are for up to be and that's a real word and i think that's all. thank

you for the generation that was born in peacetime, but in 2006, this changed for you. can you tell me a little bit about dot o as in love and non during the course during the summer, i was impacted for the key but also i took it in and i understood even when i was called, that negative impact public opinion. but it was really during the 2014 when i was entering major news organization. okay. understood the weight and the importance of accountability, journalism and independence. and so that was the role that i took in my career. oh them on on witness is a product from the past year from 2011, 2015 and then the big 2019 for us. what was the role of the need? yes,

11 on the me to our own bipartisan group and political parties which are the contrast of people and the proton movement, throws up again at the hearts of corruption or enablers, which are the main thing. media information is the illustration of corruption in narrative. an idea so it's really important for me to focus on the media narrative and also counselor through investigative work. so with the independent media organization i worked for, i took on the daily news reports and covering the violations again for testers. the process were happening all over the country. there were media black out, so we were the one who said lights on what was going on. and the way the most. that means the media didn't well have been any clean and a socks on journalists and media workers. is freedom of speech and danger and love

on, in your opinion. i think freedom of speech right now as going through a specific kind of challenge because of social media and government use of social media to intimidate people into self censorship. ah, we need to speak against that. whether or not the intimidation is there. and i think a lot of independence me that workers understand the threat and they understand that now is the time to continue with the accountability. journalism continues with open 4th investigation in order to uncover the start of school and to dismantle. it completely came as the thank you so much for being with us here today. your generation did not really witness the civil war in lebanon. however, everyone has been cards, and the country may be through our parents or through stories that we hear. now i

want to start with you, katie, and how did this shape your political activism in the country? no, although we didn't experience the civil war, we were taught or inherent to the narrative about their implementation, even forms of hero with them. you know, people that we were supposed to think of very highly at the end of the day, we also formulated the counter narrative, the idea that we are transcending more and transcending the sector in connotations which exist alongside of it. and this is something we're currently working on. what about 2 hours? so i also have kind of unique a bringing as my parents are both from secular backgrounds. so i had this angle that i got from my parents. why understanding the trauma that they live through during this is more since it's an inherited intergenerational trauma and wanting never to have this happen again. so this was basically my viewpoints going into policies going into activism and going into journalism as well. so is your

generation more radical, came more uncompromising in a way we were thought for a long way to live in on that this is the country. these are the relationships that exist between the ruling class and the people between the people themselves, between the various political factions which exist in the country. and we're suggesting that there's nothing static about them. and there's always in the dynamics transformation. and we're here experiencing another dynamic transformation which go about after october 17, which came about after august for explosion. we do thing that we have the agency to create the vibe and alternative, i think. what are the ways in which you can implement such change in your opinion? i think the printer and a lot from what's happening around us since they're so called spring and what people are age is when we're able to. and she's not only in 2011, but also in 2019 with us across iraq, a geo to don. and where and we learn from each other about tactics and

futures and histories that we want to work together towards getting your, the share of the political working group of the met the network which connect secondary clubs across universities. 11 on canada, transformed the student activism into any c, y political movements. in your opinion, when i think this is already already the case, in the sense that that's where it is established in more than 12 to 13 universities . this suggests that there is potential for genuine competition between secondary progressive components in many society against more effect theory and reactionary components which have existed historically, the secondary clubs are in the mentor network and not only calling perspective. they're also calling for allied, their progressive package that also deals with social justice, more democratic inclusion, ideas pertaining to being numerated from their normal which of this destroy their

societies. so we're not and distant ideological group, we are part of the society. we're speaking to them when they're basically, how can you actually convince people who might be even older than the generation to vote outside the scope of their sex when you have 18 sex and lebanon, when you have political parties that are based on their sex and that are not based on merit or even deep politics. the problem with startling, such a question is that you need to talk to the client and from someone votes for a political fact. they're also voting for the ability to get the job to be able to get, get in a school, to be able to get social welfare and all of these things that are tied to sectarian political parties. so really thinking about getting people to vote outside of their success. enjoy. we need to also be cognizant that we are telling them to make themselves wrong, to a reality without the social protections and the,

it's going to protections and mainstream peninsula can part with us with them. so this opposition movement should have a certain attorney says and realistic solutions to the secretary and claims that has been ingrained in every institution and as the parts and parts of our life. so what you're saying basically, is that nonsectarian opposition groups need to compete with these long last thing. political parties, by proving that this is not the way. so actually, i mean, this is a very interesting phenomenon. this happened after august for the last people came together from a 7 non and forms of networks of solidarity and financial and collaborative funded their networks and don't mimic the same authoritarian clients and mystic

structure that we're so used to getting the government would say that they are attempting to tackle corruption 11 on with establishing an anti corruption committee and new law tackling corruption and the country. what's your opinion on 11, on particular the, the term corruption is basically and potentially, i mean, particularly when it's anti corruption because the usual seminar was not just corruption in the sense that, you know, we have some interest being distributed within state sectors. it's a very structured as a stomach issue we have and is an amplifier of the ninety's. we have a run based economy that's completely based on monopolies, the banking sector, plus the real estate sector. we have a security system which compete distributes, and ministries all that have come across after the war. we have enlarged that we have a lot of social and economic inequality. no productive factors which produce anything . and we're simply living the remnants of an extremely new in the brute and unfair

economy. so people that are saying we want to corruption, but don't even want to fight back at the interest of the other party and the banks . then we can't really trust whether they're actually buy the interruption. so as long as this is at stake, there is no such thing as anti corruption. on august 4th, 2020 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded and beta was causing damage to the whole city. can you tell me what happened on that day? so i was in the office, i had the work call in the middle of it, and then 6 a happened and then i felt a tremor that took me back and forth. and i hadn't realized what had happened, but i heard the noise of a huge explosion. and i saw that everything was destroyed around us. our colleagues were really close to the windows and we were trying to figure out if anyone was injured. and because my apartments in my office were right each other, and i could see complete destruction of my apartments. because this was an office

for an independent organization. some of our geographies took their gear and they went down from the current engine. it was a complete massacre. it was something that i think no one wants to live through again or ever. what about to came once i heard the explosion and i felt that everything was shaking. the 1st thought against all mine is that i also was qualified to the position i was in because i felt maybe the building could collapse at any moment. so it was extreme uncertainty about the next 30 minutes after i was out and took my car. i noticed that people are injured everywhere, so it was a huge catastrophic moment in which everything norman and our lives was holding. has that you mentioned that you were in an office

working with an independent media organization. did you manage after that to resume your work direct piece? i think what few of us to continue to actually double down on our reporting and on our coverage was our anger towards whatever happened and whoever were responsible. so this could be seen with our investigations, with our daily news coverage and trying to piece together what's happened. why was there a fire? what blew up before the ammonium nitrate? where was it exactly and which warehouse was able to look at? ok, this video was taken on the roof of this building, and this time this enabled me to actually piece together something so that i can know what's happened because the anxiety of not knowing was worse than the inside of what's happened after the $15000000000.00 in the number estimated when we talk

about the damages that were caused by this explosion. there are so many allege accusations that corruption reached aids where the corruption and cream the 8 is definitely not the answer to corruption. because feeding this regime with more funds by taking you by the international community will only need to it's reproduction and it's a good thing it's own bases. the solution isn't us, is in the hundreds of thousands of people from various social groups and man relevant sex who believe they mobilize and create different systems or solidarity. this could potentially create an advocate resistance in the region, but there is no certainty insights. but there is always hope can you can i just jump in here when i look at are i understand production,

it doesn't just like an institutional government's perspective. but if there is corruption, one place it's probably tied to corruption elsewhere. when a megaphone use an investigation about the origins of the ship that brought them on united states to the beta was poor, they were tied to syrian russian firms with addresses in london. so corruption is globin. and i think when we want to understand and to 5 could option, we need to think about it as a system of solidarity. that is, boy, during this, at the same time and collaborate with independent media organizations just like the panama papers have done to uncover money laundering scandals across the world. i think there's something really important when she said, but there's also some things to emphasize on based on this that emma needs regime is tied to international and noble interests which sustain it. now that is

something to critique, but it's also something to look at and slightly so be inspired from that. if we do break these links or if we do create alternative links across borders that could multiply the strength of our movement. and potentially, we could benefit from an alternative, international network of people who think this way. and that's how we can create alternative power in the country and ultimately replace the current regime in site . i mean, cream. just looking at the protest starting tactics from the 20 october 2019 protest movements. we learned from hong kong. we learned from turkey, william from sudan, and then again in may 2021 to george soy protest. i said lebanese activists help or create a guide for black live matters activists in minnesota in order to help

them in terms of see help with your gas. so this sunny day doesn't just transcend our fight against corruption, but also our fight against authoritarian regime and oppressors. one of the many challenges that this country is facing is immigration or brain drain. many of the young generation are leaving for good. i didn't, you mentioned that you are part of the mother network, which is connecting different secular clubs. but the protests are kind of on hold right now. how do you want to be people? how do revive these events and districts? not many people have the luxury to go out. a lot of people are stuck here in the sense and they have no choice but to fight back for these after the august 4 explosion. when the people basically occupied much use where they were in saying, you know, let's make some calculations and see if we can afford this or then they just went. sometimes we assume that if people emigrate, then they don't have a role. but this is a huge fallacy,

but lebanese regime benefit from the base for they benefit from the fact that we're going to explore the everyone, and then they'll give us the money so we can sustain ourselves. the opposition has a reality. the reality is that people are outside. how can they benefit us? well, most of our organization and i can, i can, the mechanisms are becoming online as dresses movements. so people can think parts in meetings and sharing ideas and talking to people and getting heaps of people to vote. so that's all about raising alternative networks by using that i asked for that was exported by the regime itself. but i also got him, i think as opposition groups, or as students or union organizers, we need to learn to add the can life or hope for the future, which we saw on the street in the beginning of the 17 october 2019 protest movement . people were coming together and dancing cooking together, singing together, reading things with each other. these are the informal system relationships and

trades that had never been seen in accused downtown bay route until before the civil war. as we do know how media and one of the allies in lebanon, how it's tied to private businesses, to politicians, how can you change stuff? so 1st, i think we need to recognize that 12 point is to confirm when you own acute, half of the mainstream media in lebanon. the other half is either owned by businessman, by individual politically affiliations or by specific political parties. so the control over one, the media, but 2 and most importantly that this course in the sources of information is squarely in the hands of those in power. but in dependency that organizations have found ways mobilizing the just florida and becoming important sources of information from the ground since they are the only ones that soon from the ground

. from the point of view of the protesters from the point of view of the oppressed . but again, the independence didn't need to work together with grassroots movements with sites or organizations to bridge together all these things in order to have a sustainable future. when you talk about all of these hopes and dreams, there's a certain component that we need to talk about, and that is challenging. a secular state has been as a dominant political shape, party and lebanon. now, some argue that they are faith was in a safe. how do you been a secular government with the presence of such party? i don't think it's even possible to look for genuine radical reform in the country with the state of the state like which is not just a part of the distribution. it's an infrastructure of the cells at the base and other conflicts in the region,

and it also tokenize is on very because now the question remain, how do we resist this? and i knew also have an issue with those who proclaimed to fight against below. and in fact, they only got from their own stick there in point of view, it was never a progressive starting point. and that's something that stream the necessary they want to go a step forward. but isn't that challenging? because has bhalla says that they are present to defend that have been use borders . the only way to tack is such a permeated need to think as as, to recreate a new narrative. it does not mean we have to concede, has been all in fact that the being the stake, many opposition parties are doing. we need to continue creating this counter hedge a morning from a starting point which is secular. progressive, an insular verity. when all of those oppressed by has and by not has yes. so

is there a faith for optimism and a country so complex like lebanon? that's the ways for the 2022 election for some kind of change. there's never pessimism or optimism. there is a complex reality as you said, and this complex at the end of itself, gives us hope. because what's happening this year may not happen 3 years later. but the 2022 elections cannot be seen as a brakes to can only be seen as of today. however, many other breakthroughs await, because at the end of the day, saddle had eat in october 29. 2019 was not thinking i was in an action. it was taken out by the street and the streets could reinvent itself as the new regime. so i agree completely with could him and saying that elections is a, it's not

a means an end. i think organizing through syndicates, through clubs, through students unions and across identities and success in loyalty is really important. so are you going to be the incineration? that's fine. a solution for the ongoing crisis 11 on. i don't know. that's a lot of responsibility for a generation because i think our parents thought they would be that generation. i think their parents thought they would be the generation. so maybe listen, i actually think there's no such thing as the, you know, one time change in the country living on 200 years ago was different 11 on today. and social movements always existed and pressure and in a certain direction. so i think each declaration made is contribution, and we're here to make our model contribution and to see what comes ahead of us.

that's it for this episode of generation change from lebanon. katie mazda, thank you so much for taking part. it's been a very enlightening conversation. thank you. thanks. the new generation of young people are making demands to we balance society. welcome to generational change, a global theories, the attempt to understand and challenge the ideas that mobilize you around the world in london to activate the tackling the root causes of youth violence. many young people perpetrated violence again, other young people themselves have also been victim multiple times. my generation can try me design and shape this generation change on al jazeera. we know what's happening in our region. we know have some get to places that others and not as far as i said, i'm going or the way that you tell the story is what can make

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