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the welcome to generation change, a global series that attempt to understand and challenge the ideas that are mobilizing you around the world. i'm not on an independent journalist based on where jesse campaigners are fighting for radical change. the, with the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting. it's an amik last political social unrest. and the devastation caused by august 2020, to expose in here. and i ended up and we need to young people using their skills to combat becky 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. were there any specific moments or events page your political activism, the early part of my childhood was not really influenced by policy, but i'm older, graduate, and beneath my number. however, it's also important most 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, we're all the products of the society and the dinner, jeez. and soon by the regime, but then i got exposed to various other ideas, movement groups. that's the right 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 political phase for students to know more about politics than the various development? it's linked to the social and this group had to have the economic interests which had to be protected. whether it's leading on addition, that's going to be a ministration to protect student freedom or needing long tuition strike,

which protects the students right. what was on august 19th was basically the you student component of the film with them and upload 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 that it's already been moved and then that's where it has an expensive social. and then i think the grass root of attraction, thinking the idea that it should be creating a culture such a morning challenged most like their import these initiatives and the various other courses which are for up to be. and that's a real word, and i think that's what makes the music and movies

as a you for the generation that was born in peacetime, but in 2006, the change for you can you send me a little bit about dots o, as in lebanon, during the 6th floor during the summer, i was impacted to the key, but also i took it in and i understood even when i was called that narrative impact public opinion. but it was really during this proposal and 14 goes away. when i was in turning at major news organization, okay. understood the weight and the importance of accountability journalism and independence on amazon. so that was the road that i took in my career. oh, been on witness approach from the past 2 years from 2011,

2015 and then the big 2019 and what was the role of the media 11 on the me to our own bipartisan group and political parties, which are the political class of people and the photon momentum shows up again at the hearts of corruption or enablers, which are the main thing. media information is the illustration of corruption in nearest have an idea. so it's really important for me to focus on the media narrative and also counter 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 processes are happening all over the country. there were media black out though we were the ones who had lights on what was going on. and the way the move. that means the media didn't

well have been any attacks 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 the government's use of social media to intimidate people into censorship. ah, we need to speak against that. whether or not the intimidation is there. and i think a lot of independents need that workers understand the threat. and they understand that now is the time to continue with the accountability. journalism continues with open source investigation in order to uncover the start of school and to dismantle a computer game as well. 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 were here. 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 that some of the war we were taught or inherent to the narrative about their inclinations, even forms the hero with them. you know, people that we were supposed to think of very highly at the end of the day. we also formulated a counter narrative, the idea that you are transcending this move or, 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 politics 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 got about after october 17th, which about after august for explosion, we do think that we have the agency to create the vibe of the turn of i think, what are the ways in which you can implement such change in your opinion, i think the printer and the law from what's happening around us since they are so called spring and what people are age is when we're able to achieve 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 you are the chair of the political working group of the met the network which connect secondary clubs across universities and lebanon. canada transformed the student activism into any so why 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 the many society against more secondary 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 means memory than from norman's, which of the story their societies. so we're not and distant ideological group. we are part of the site. the you were 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 home 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 through it with your client and isn't from someone votes for political sex. they're also voting for the ability to get the job to be able to get gifts in a school and 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 in lawyers here we need to also be cognizant that we are telling them to make themselves wrong to a reality without the social protections. and the printer is going to protections as a mainstream political party with them. so this opposition movement should have a certain i'll turn it says, and realistic solutions to the secretary and claims 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 7 on 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 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 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 lemonade 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 making sector plus the real estate sector. we have a security system which compete to distribute on 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 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 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 bailed, 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, we'll talk to each other, and i could see complete destruction of my apartments. because this was an office for an independent organization. some of our videographers 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 through 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, this is i also was qualified to the position i was in because i felt maybe in 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 is a do a 2nd on the roof of this building. and this time, this enables 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 asters. 15000000000 dollars in the number estimated when we talk about the damages that were caused by explosion. there are so many lead 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 so the narrative, this could potentially create. and i look at the resistance and the regime. but there is no certainty insights,

but there is always hope cream. 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, the drug 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 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 independence needs 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 something 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 and 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 to 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 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 the 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 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. 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 today that can live 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 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 it to confirm when you own acute half of the mainstream media in lebanon. the other half is either owned by businessman, by individual affiliation 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 powers. but independence 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 protestors from the point of view of the oppressed. but again, the independence we didn't used to work together with grassroots movements with sites or 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 shape, party and 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. where the state of the state like has, which is not just

a part of the distribution. it's an infrastructure of the base and other context in the region and it also tokenize is on very 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 thought go from there own 6 there in point of view, it was never a progressive starting point. and that's something the 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's being the stake. many opposition parties are doing. we need to continue creating the counter hedge a morning from

a starting point which is secular. progressive, an insular verity with 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 2020 to 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 breaks to can only be seen as a tool. however, many other breakthroughs awaits 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 him and saying that elections is, if not the 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 generation that's find a solution for this 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, but 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 pressured in a certain direction. so i think each declaration 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 came as the thank you so much for taking part. it's been a very enlightening conversation. thank you. thank news, news, news, news. one of the fastest growing nations in the i want a needed to open and develop it into national shipping company to become a team,

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