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a $1000000000.00 taxi. it was 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high youth employment, storing living costs and a widening gap between rich and poor. i'm m. m righty and it comes to kenya to me, to activate from the countries capital nairobi. been fighting for social justice to combating police violence. they both want to empower their communities and make them safer. welcome to generation change a global theories, attempts to understand i'm challenge the idea that mobilized around the world. ah, though it's sunday i'm going to hear the kids are in times over,

which is like from right that. and this is an informal settlement, but it was like the country's largest dental site. what was it like for you growing up there? so one of the challenges the getting in that fiscal would put it on initially my but didn't know where you can find out that much enough for us to pay rent and food into a vacation. that's way too much of a sick of because she was engaged in drug abuse of linda sweeney chevy, agatha value, and that left us the window was left off the glint. doing so, however you and your mother passed away. i was 16. and what happened then? i ended up, we'll have it done, say to a, make it simple immunity. it's a place where, where comes anybody who doesn't have a place to go or scrub in gene or you're collecting trash so that they can, i can get something to eat. now you're

a wrapper and that's what a, what was the transition like from being on the dumps i am lacking? that is being an artist and doing what you do now. so when i was of the dumps it was a straight up. so even people are calling me that, let's go look it up for us. do they give me? so i didn't pay before. so i know, and i did. did you learned that name? who was sort of variable conduct was going around r dondo be seeking the places and people tell them we need to find the south on the set up, but the need to find that you need to find a di, okay. so they came down before me under the transition with such idea any came up about a project for them right on the does to read the transition. so maybe get them started getting up was to know how much yes. ah, how did working on it on site its is isaac. whenever they don't say you feel like

you are foreclosed, you are in a dark place where people don't appreciate you don't have a voice. nobody cares about who you are. so initially for me was laker. i mean a while to where i'm fixing a lot of social advices whenever i'm sick. nobody cares. if i, if i have a good fall, nobody cares this nobody to share. what were to have those performing for them by very early in the morning. if you find them i just there. so i was seeing them as the as the, the real audience. my ceo for a silly young god, job 0. he supposedly were country was so broke. i wanted to talk to you by an area code. you've done quite a few songs about extra judicial killings and the police. no kidding people who live here. i lost 3 friends. i when i was under dom site because of its traditional

killing. they were beaten up at the destroy the font. i was so mind there was that i was ugly, so that's where i a big a started becoming more, we need to go into social issues on the not anything that will be a $1.00 to $1.00, a do another one, not dying dirty, bumping. you well, and there's also an organization called and left kenya, which you work in and you do these projects with young people. can you tell me bit about what you do with them. okay. soon of course it does. it is a community based organization that works with kids from the age of fight to 17 or 20. so that did their thing busy. so that the don't end up sunday society social advice just keeps coming today. ah, we do music class days, drama class. this avoid she and play games with kids together. we have managed reading defined over a 100 plus new times, of course,

seen so many artists. it hasn't been more often than even in yet back to us is that we will not. it still got it. so in theory, you crew founded the, my, sorry, social justice center, which aimed at tackling a form for structural violence. can you explain a bit about what made you want to start the organization? albany, mother and i grew up in my parish. i the 2nd biggest law mean. okay, now i love my that, you know, i was a happy child and when i became an adult is when i could see now the violence that people in my community, ludwig throat, they pulled lexi the police brutality. if police came names,

the lack of clean water so growing up in missouri is a lot of like growing up in a village where everybody knows everybody. so when something happens to one of us, really fin it. so the killings in particular there were too much, it was just too much. so to challenge that, we formed maddie social justice center. and were there any personal experience is that you lived in missouri that made you want to stop the organization? yes, um my own brother was killed by police in to a 72. 08. was the election violence in kenna and that with a lot of other young people that i have grown up, we've been killed. and this is not just my story. i is of the story of many young people in the day. you either have a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police.

the when you're a, when now i was fired them at sorry social justice been for i can you tell me a bit about the why fi do you day to day here every day we see it says from the community on different areas that viola came on to bring justice to the community to members most noticed if guess is a police mortality for people who have been arrested with not enough reason. kisses of didn't a bit violin, but we have a community engagement, like watching film, planting, trees, community clean knobs, community demonstrations. and every time we meet at the center, we have to sing. oh, because live my son, an interview that comes when things get introduced. i just on to continue watching this spot. ok, thinking just this and dignity of people with

i wanted to ask you about the time in 2020, when you were a protest against police brutality and you resisted arrest from 3 armed police officers. and there was a huge reaction because the video of this happening went by will and lots of people saw it with how was that experience to you? and were you surprised by the reaction that it got? yes, i was surprised that he even went viral. i didn't know it was going to be that impossible . i. with that i am a woman that was able to stand up for my thought made they young man in my community. more emboldened to stand up for themselves. it made them feel more powerful. i also have to say that at that very moment, it is the pain of every mother i have walked with in thinking justice for their son

. every case i have documented every single possible i have seen lose their lives in my community. give me a friend to say that this was enough and if killing have hodge to stop in so 10 dash thank you so much for being here today. when we think about the issues that are facing young people, it's interesting that 75 percent of the people in kenya are under the age of $35.00, but only 40 percent of youth is registered to vote in the recent elections. why do you think it is that so few people registered to vote here in kenya under the age of 35. i think it was um, one form of resistance from the people from the 8000000 candles who did not come to

ward. i think they was saying that they do not want to be a part of their they wanted a system that works for them. and on the other hand, i think one thing is important because it's the only way we are going to with someone who could walk for us. but i think it was very loud that they tired of this system of oppression. and what do you think us, how did you feel about the election and how did young people that, you know, speak about the election? remember, before election knew, i mean a, we were in a crisis of coffee 19. and of course, even the government who previously there was not even being allowed to the people. they were just making the people followed because there was a lot of confuse people, people are not going to job. so when it comes to people now being told to vote and the lake norman, the same government didn't care about, that's why they getting know, they don't respect our voices. they don't want to say, but they want us to do one

d. c. and that's, that's how we feel like if our vote is not powerful, it doesn't change anything. do you also feel that sense of accuracy towards the system? i know because women moiety fin the country, god independence with little change. look at the community where i come from. it's still the same poverty from before. so people are beginning to relate when i mean, why do i even go toward? it doesn't change my life in any way. how do you bring about change if you withdrew from the system as they exist? now, how can you amplify issues the masses? he mice. i think we need an alternative system that says piece hall at the very core of the issues we are trying to address. ah, how we need to bring about changes, organize ourselves as the youth and advocate with one voice as one girl among the issues that much actual as i philip we shouldn't take

a backseat and watch and complain and say this is them. doesn't work for us. this before corrupt is, can we actively organize against that system together? i know that you both care a lot about extrajudicial shillings in kenya. around the world. there are conversations around police brutality and death at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extra judicial killings, the we are miracle stuff in the hashtag blacklist, martha? ah, i think it martin most encounter because her personally of last 20 plus or friends, most of them was killed by police and her mom justice. and initially this is just specific, only done dora. so if you imagine how many happens each and every day in my diet, in canberra, in, in either streets. so it's quite a very, very big issue that hasn't been happening. and are we haven't been getting

a solution. and wonder how would you explain it? and now as a british colony, when we got independence, the police so is that we're serving the colonial government, did not change our wouldn't domain as i became president of can. or he continued with the same police force that the colonial government was using. and therefore, i thing on that they have practice is the new trauma they would cost up on the people to present the tenants living in informal settlements. ah, when judge lloyd was killed, 13 earliest miles killed in our community. and when we planned the protests, it was the 1st time i saw kenneth's soul invested in tattling. matters of excited to shillings in the country. usually we will hold our demos in a informal settlement. i've enjoyed flight kills canons connect said that they are struggling. the u. s and i struggled out here and came out in the lodge numbers to

say we demand on into extra additional killings. so police officers have justified 72 percent of the kennings that have happened alleging, but they were result of anti crime operations. and i wanted to ask within the communities, is there a slight tension there to some people maybe not have sympathy when somebody who was committing a crime dies at the hands of the police and how do you respond to that? if that happens, but i think it so we live in a country that prides itself in upholding visual overall. why do we have all this said is, if someone has been found doing something wrong, can we have a law before not can we have them arrested and took into court and prosecuted instead of the police deciding to be the judge and the jury and executioner. because this is what happens most of the time. and this is a crime not just in can now, but everywhere else i do not think police have a right to take away anybody's life when days a law that can be followed. for me,

the biggest issue has been the quality. they are not treating people who sim like we have been having news like a us a sudden pos, almost got her. ah, took mindful day for the government to the se in des, governance on news, but then not been killed. why is it that in where we leave and, and order that someone are just all a form was mind and a criminal criminal according to the law. so the, we need to, we need to put it clear that it needs to be an, an equal thing that we feel like it's not if it's not true. and equally antonucci dash that was the case of coven billionaires. like some people in government had stolen be liam's men. to me, to get the federal court with one thing in the country. during this period, there was also a lot of poverty in their communities and actually police did not as

with the car, would be an anti spite. having been a protest is the people protesting against the school with billionaires that were actually arrested. but what dash is saying is there is a distinction between people who are failing to survive. and people who are telling from the people, because their government told from the poor in that particular infant, which led them to only grieve. when you say that you're fighting for justice, what is justice look like? fear. so for me, justice means this, this consistently the point she didn't seem they said this is like following the law when boys killed with the police wonder remember that it's an additional killing to you or not, given a family to be the by the police to conduct a fundraising, so as to get funds to do that by the way, in which why you haven't congested because that but almost killed landed wrong too

. you're not given upon me for this, nor jesse there for the fight, fight justice, that people should be treated equally. that for justice means to and what about you under? what does justice lie to you and when you're fighting for that, what is it you're thinking about? my brother was killed by police. justice ideally would look like me getting back my brother. but that is not possible. so injustice would look like preventing people from losing their loved ones. still only thing that would make sense for me. the only reason we are fighting that is killings, midst of soul can do not have to move through unnecessary pain caused by the bullet . so has ever been a time that you have seen justice in action in kenya with regard to, you know, police killings. if there was a case who offer laying of the office on monday, the fisherman over police station who killed some one in the police station, he drowned them enough drum full of water and the inmates could see that. and when

we documented this case together with international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions. we are in kisha, certain justice for my team call me and they light mend when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. and that was the 1st time i saw a justice in action in this country. and i want to move the conversation a little bit and some other areas i know you care about. i want to specifically also talk to you dash about music. it feels like it is really a lifeline view. so for me, music is life. i feel like the way people have a power like the the police have the gun and the feet ball for the gun. so for me, if you fall full and have music because it's part of my life, last year we had a case, a very begin in den dora, we are apaloosa looking for a sudden thief. then the southern thief, wind running,

he went to his friends and some of defense for not thief. so the police ended up killing everybody and they did us all. it was all about stop extrajudicial killing . we did coincides to that and our community justice center. my dad is social justice vendors and all that. and we, we've got justice through, through the power of the odd and we've got new, new police and other, any other names of people or any other example of the culture art or music the you have to be powerful or inspiring in kenya. i've listened to nasa mine and the song, mississippi, god damn about police brutality, they forgot that identified. and it became a big issue for the black people over there. they went to a protest singing that song, made them feel so powerful. and nina, herself felt lay her lakeside mall relevance when she would thing to advance the struggle of last people what she was saying about them is so very

relevant today in the us and also in our communities in countries back home. and i wanted to ask social media, it's done a lot in terms of sharing messages to do with activities. and how important do you think that has been for you? and can you more generally, in terms of amplifying messages, like the ones you care about? most? mostly i've been using social media last sort of like a proof. and whenever you have social media easier to even tell people like this, these are part of the things that they have done as well. and, you know, they said to him, she had issues with the police when they wanted to late. that is how may force and we also that because of social media, this musician when it's a little bit more powerful. and so many people are inspired by high just because of the story. and this is because of the social media. it has even happened both the been in the street someone is being arrested and is using social media to tell people that he has been noticed and,

and he hasn't done anything for i have said that social media have played a very, very big role in terms of documenting issues. when jerry you use youtube to teach. i kind of alternative history and i wondered if you could me a little bit about why you've done that. i love history. i think history is very liberating. when you get to really know and understand. i think present day the ration is quite disconnected with our very glory as history of the past. for example, my community, my, my home in my diary has been around for a 100 years. it's been a century of survival and resistance since 1920. my very has been existing think it's the oldest ghetto in can now. so we've had a president from 963 who have done something to change their fate of the people of mulberry. but they did not. this is where structural violence comes in. that the

people of malaria continued to be neglected and continue to be exposed to the system. systemic violence of social injustice this sol. when we understand as young people where we are coming from, it will be very easy to, to create the kind of future we want now for our children's children and simon, any thus, i know you care a lot about your community. and i want to hear from you directly. what is it that you're proud of in terms of where you are from, and what your identity is? so, of course, i'm proud of myself if from, from where i've come from and where i am. i managed to to go over 1010000 kids well and in defend their new talents among the successful stories that they have. is that over 50 young girls, they're gonna end up in and dropping out of school i li, pregnancies. but we have managed to get them out of such issues. also most of proud

of 4 of the defies that have gone through in ensuring that things are right. this phone that they have done and all that. as a final note, what is it, despite all of the issues that you have seen that makes you get up every morning? so 5 for a better day. why is it that you continue to do what you're doing? well, i guess my going is knowing that i'm on the right 5 and i'm doing my little thing towards contributing to the betterment of the play. one guy i said to everybody around the one was a little thing towards making the wall a middle place. so that is my little thing and i'm happy doing it. there is no less work up every morning to ensure that what i'm doing, i'm not even paid or anything. it's just because i need to see a good future. i need to see a better lender. i need to see a bit a kenyan. i need to put to not leave the live that i have lived. so that's

a less wake up every morning for me to check kids with a family and also for the future of can be across the world, young activists and organizers around them. motivated and politically engaged, the salinger. they couldn't be more daunting here. and they knew we were the ones

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