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ah ah, ah, welcome to generation change, a global series that attempt to understand and challenge the idea that are mobilizing you around the world. i'm not the one an independent journalist, they say levin on where genji campaigners are fighting for radical change. the challenges they face couldn't be more dancing, economic collapse, political st, me social unrest, and the devastation caused by august 2020, to close in here and ah, in the episodes we need to 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 bit about your childhood and they were there any specific moments or events page to your political activism? the early part of my childhood was not really influenced by policy, but as i go there graduated the been used by however, also for the most of the ideas and concepts that were created by the ruling class.

in terms of the tech theory and innovations and the crisis. so at the end of the day, road partly brought up the societies and the other genes and food 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, to the thank you, there's love beside the socio functions of space for students to know more about politics and the various development of the social and this group had to have economic interests which had to be protected, whether it's leaning on position administration to protect student freedom or

needing long tuition strike, which protects the students right. whether on august, the 19 was basically the you student component of the mcdonald's in upload them. but it also transformed into a force which is able to impose a certain this force under landscape. are you optimistic that sir mother network will emerge as it relates to movement and lebanon's know the way i see another that's already been moved and then that's really expensive. social and then i think in the grass root of a truck that has taken the idea that it should be creating a culture such a morning challenge. most like their employees, these initials based on the various other forces which are for up to be paid. and that's a risk forward, and i, that's all, thank you

for the generation that was born in peace time, but in 2006. the change for you. yeah. can you send me a little bit about dot o as in lebanon during the course during the summer, i was in fact to took the keys, but also i took it in and i understood even when i was 12, that's now has impact public opinion. but it was really during the 2014 guys when i was entering a major news organization, look, i understood the weight and the importance of accountability journalism and independence on amazon. so that was the road that i took and my career oh, that was on witness. here is

a protest from the past years from 2011, 2015 and then the big 2019. what was the role of the media 11 on the me to our own bipartisan group and political parties which are the contrast that the local people and the protest movement rose 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 counter through investigative work. with the independent organization i worked for, i took on the daily news reporting and covering the violations. i came for testers, the processes were happening all over the country. there were media black out, so we were the ones who had life on what was going on. and the way that she needs that means to me did to them

will have been any clean effects on journalists. and i'll need y'all. worker is freedom of speech and danger, and lebanon in your opinion. i think freedom of speech right now as going through a specific kind of challenge because of social media and to governments 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 independents me the workers understand the threat and they understand that now is the time to continue with the accountability. journalism continues with open 4th investigations 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 cars in the country, maybe through our parents or through stories that were here. now i want to start with katie and how did this shape your political activism in the country? no, although we then experienced the civil war, we were taught or inherited the narrative about, you know, securing connotations, 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 the trend funding board and trans funding 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 of living 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 of alternative, i think. what are the ways in which you can implement such change in your opinion? i think we're printer and a lot from what's happening around us since they're so called or bring in what people are age as when we're able to achieve not only in 2011,

but also in 2019 with us across iraq, 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 you are the chair 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 the case in the sense that that's where it is established and more than 12 to 13 universities. this suggests that there is potential for genuine competition between secondary progressive components in the 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, but also deals with social justice, more democratic inclusion, ideas pertaining to being liberated from the norm. which of this story there suffice. these are not and distant ideological group, we are part of the society or speaking to them when they are 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 the politics. the problem with startling, such a question is that we need to talk it through it, which is client and isn't from someone votes for a political fact. they're also voting for the ability to get the job to be able to get gifts in the school and to be able to get social welfare and all of these things that are tied to cic, perry and political parties. so really thinking about getting people to

vote outside of their enjoy. we need to also be cognizant that we are telling them to make themselves wrong to a reality without the social protections. and to put it's going to protections as a mainstream. political party would offer them. so this opposition movement should have a certain i'll turn it says and realistic solutions to the secretary and trying to stick system that has been ingrained in every institution and of the parts and parts of our life. so what you're saying basically, is that nonsectarian opposition group needs 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 from 7 on and forms networks of solidarity and financial and collaborative

solidarity networks. and don't mimic the same authoritarian clients and mystic structure that we're so used to carry. the government would say that they are attempting to tackle corruption in lebanon with establishing an anti corruption committee and new law, tackling corruption in the country. what's your opinion on 11, on particular the, the term corruption is basically an potentially, i mean, particularly when it's anti corruption. because the usually lemonade was not just corruption in the sense that, you know, we have some interest being distributed within state sectors. it's a very structure and it's a stomach issue we have and it's been amplified since the ninety's. we have a run based economy that's completely based on monopolies, the making sector plus the real estate sector. we have a security system which compete to distribute on ministry is all spoils 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 and unfair economy. so people that are saying we want to fix corruption, but don't even want to fight back at the interest of the other darky and the banks . then we can't really trust whether they're actually fighting corruption. so as long as this is at stake, there's 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 to work called in the middle of it and then 6 a happened and then i felt a timer 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, we're right in the 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 carnage. it was a complete massacre. it was something that i think no one wants to live to again or ever. what about 2 came ones i heard the explosion and i felt that everything was shaking the 1st thought. the games all mine is a 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 happened after $15000000000.00 in the number estimated, when we talked about the damages that were caused by the explosion. there are so many alleged 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, particularly by the international community, we only need to it's reproduction and it's a good thing its own bases. the solution isn't us, is in the hundreds of thousands of people from various social groups and man relevant sex. but believe they mobilize and create different systems or so the narrative, this could potentially create an advocate resistance in the region. but there is no

certainty insight. 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 origin of the ship that brought the ammonium nitrate to the beta with poor, there were tied to syrian russian firms with addresses in london. so corruption is globin. and i think when we want to understand and to fight could option, we need to think about it as a system of solidarity. that is, bordering yes, at the same time and collaborate with independence need the organization just like the panama paper 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 is 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, will learn from sudan. and then again in may 2021, the george soy protest. i said lebanese activists help or create

a guide for black lives matter activists in minnesota in order to help them in terms of he helped with tear 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 so many challenges that the country is facing in immigration or brain drain, many of the young generation are leaving for good. you mentioned that you're 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 and watches where they were saying,

you know, let's make some calculations and see if we can afford this or that they just went. sometimes we assume that if people emigrate, then they don't have a role. but this is a huge fallacy. assign beneath regime benefits from the explorer. they benefit from the fact that we're going to export everyone and then they'll give us the money so we can sustain ourselves. opposition has a reality. the reality is that people are outside. how can they benefit us? well, most of our organizations making the mechanisms are becoming online as restless movements. so you can think parts in meetings and sharing ideas and talking to people and getting people people to vote. so that's all about raising alternative networks by using the dyess for that was exported by the regime itself. also came, i think, as opposition groups or as students or union organizers, we need to learn to add the can life our 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 informal systems, 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 fall edition, how can you change stuff? so 1st, i think we need to recognize that 12 point to confirm when you own acute half of the mainstream media in lebanon. the other half is either owned by businessman, by individual phoenicians or by specific political parties. so the control over one, the media, but 2 and most important to the discourse in the sources of information is squarely in the hands of those empowers but independently,

the 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 the site to organizations. to bring 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 party in lebanon. now some argue that they are faith within a safe. how do you been a secular government with the presence of such parson? and i don't think it's even possible to look for genuine. the radical reform in the country with the state of the state like has about which is not just

a party that distribute it's an infrastructure of a say that sells at the base and other context in the region. and it also tokenize is on causes. 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 from their own sex every point of view. it was never a progressive starting point. and that's something that's extremely necessary. they want to go a step forward. but isn't that challenging? because has butler says that they are present to the fact that of a new borders. the only way to tack is such a permeated need to be as, as to recreate. and you know, it does not mean we have to concede, has been all, in fact, that's a big mistake. many opposition parties are doing. we need to continue creating this

counter hedge money from a starting point, which is secular progress as an insular verity. when all of those oppressed by has and by not has model yes. is there a faith for optimism and a country so complex, like lebanon? that's the way for the 2022 election for some kind of change. there is 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 break, so it 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 does that mean the regime? so i agree completely with cream and saying that elections is, if not a means an end, i think are igniting through syndicates, through clubs, through students, unions, and across identities and succeed in loyalty is really important. so are you going to be the exaggeration? that's fine. a solution for the ongoing crisis 11 on i don't. so that's a lot of responsibility for a generation because i think our parents thought they would be that generation. and 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 generation made its 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. frank, assess the goals and tell to the been reduced to rubble. how do you think this shapes a generation and the politics that life has been shipped by? vitamin some called inside story on our jazeera cotton, one of the fastest growing nations in the world. i needed to open and develop into a national shipping company to become

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