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as we understand the differences between self conscious across the wow. so no matter how you take it out or bring you the news and current to fast the t challenges there. the grease, the last phase of democracy, european philosophy and the like became put more recently a country associated with the cricketing debt crisis. the view of 13 measures and economy class in 2015, 3 full se found itself on the front lines and the refugee crisis. my name is emma, and i'm ronnie and i come here at the end to meet 2 young activists. he wants to
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bring about radical change addressing issues from education and an equality to racism, a migrant right. welcome to generation change, a global series attempts to understand and challenge the i did a mobilizing youth around the world or so we currently invade on us, which is where you grew up, right? was there anything about coming up here that particularly motivated you to go into activism to participate in a student? government seems 5th grade, actually representing the students and in many important issues as raising money for pay people from lower economic backgrounds from students to participate in a school trips shopping people, some of the families,
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the 9 to not be left behind. and your parents with a politically active yeah, both my parents are trade unionist but from my early ages i remember my part and started telling me about how it's respect every, every person no matter their size, their background, their, their status to the future. you're a co founder, a youth organization could start to really uh, near on. could you tell me with a name comes from, i'm what your main objective box. mm hm. so actually for the means you from the city of the william and initiative and now means here we focus on organizing
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people and use it as, as the eligibility rights women's rights, human rights in general, but also the, the educational crisis in their climate crisis as well. we organize people on the street level with demonstrations and sikes, but also organize a lot of open dialogue with the our members and, and young people in general to talk about the important stuff that i was introduced and spaces. and we are now starting to, to do some loving work, actually pressing conversations to implement agendas that work for, for young people as well. or hello, thalia may on isn't a line. so political policy, how would you describe the values of it for somebody that's in a different country?
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i think they're willing to the progressive left. we have some specific cases that are not like negotiable for us, but we try to keep the dialogue open and actually we negotiated with people on our ideas. also, we need to show people as you have to pressure this institution, submits the pros and cons offers to actually work for you and for your interest. the rosa you were born and raised in greece, but your parents originally come from albania. what's that been like a while in greece? this architecture are born in the country or that true immigration? is there any age? doesn't automatically make you a greek citizen. so although i was born in greece, i was considered an old bane and citizen on taylor 2017, which meant that i had 0 civic right. but no, absolutely no, probably couldn't fully declare presentation and how probably needs to see if the increase started banging my grades in the ninety's stuff there did this illusion of
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the hybrid communist space. we are currently the biggest, my great 30 minority we have been traditionally targeted by the media. we have been perceived as the dangerous as the criminal, as the somebody to watch out for. and so yeah, in, in a way it has made it easier. so for us, the senior agent, the great society you've been involved in antivirus, just movements and i wanted to know what it was about your life experiences that kind of shape to a journey into activism. the moment is the as being actively involved with the movement was when i was 13 years old. that's quite a side of the, between the beginning of the financial crisis in greece. a spoke with being point to a certain moment in time that really spark lacks it. gets claimed, it would be when the police q, the 15 year old boy, whose name was alexis,
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who wrote all bruce, the nonsense. and that the sparkle, the big movement of the demonstration that moved from um, from austin and sprayed all over greece. and spoke about the problem, but also it presented many different topics that we were fighting for from for new society to a presentation, to essentially a better life for . so we don't want to his background, i'd like to know a bit about the work that you do with my friends, particularly. yeah, so we are a non profit association. we are collective the before we're doing an option where it says illustrating call ideas and a phone racism and all sorts of fun, social and live discrimination. and we lack representation of people like us,
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employee thinks, and government, and hire, let's say, like of aspects of society. so we're really keen on promoting that to the element pinterest and rosa being here today. both of you have grown up during that time and numerous social and economic. i'll people in greece. where is that? how do you think that this is to find things to your generation? well, i think when somebody's faced with those verse that they, there's most probably 2 ways you can go about. one thing is to, you know, put your head down and let it destroy you. and the other one is to push against it . then somehow elective define you positively, i think cuz i come from the generation that was facing the financial crisis and then was to keep up with what they call the refugee crisis. i think um we were
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confronted with a lot of different of age and structures and phenomena, but most of us these come through more easily. and then again, i got on the meet the truth, which is that a lot of us faced with the said verse of the we, we had to fly. like i have to say that a lot of my peers, my classmates, be one of my generation dates. we need greece, i think the we came stronger after this, through this crisis that we face as duration is something that i have to do out is the last of space in the democratic institutions that our generation is facing. and that is something really difficult for, for people to understand them is democratic institutions going to work for you. and something that we need is stronger representation of, of people, of our race in apartment, and then any uh, local or national or original plays. the decisions are being made is
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interesting that you say that young people don't have trust in democratic institutions because the last government actually no device engaged to 17. and i wanted to know what do you think that means that young people have more of an active voice in politics in greece? i think though it gave us a sense of responsibility because it was the 1st time that we got to vote. but the problem is that the, the h to get elected is still the same. it's 25 years old. so that doesn't change anything when it comes to my presentation. and because i wanted to ask you, your experience has been different. so could you explain a bit about what your civic rights have been like in greece? yeah. is there is a difference between being able to participate in the system and how he feels. it's hard think actually being represented in the system going from where they call as a 2nd generation migrant in greece, which basically means that your either born from migrant parents increase or you migrate that an early age. and i believe most of your life in greece. so you have all his immunizations as a pro for greek citizen, no taxpayer,
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but not all the civic rights. and i think one of the most important things that we need to understand is that you cannot vote. i think i come from a generation because 0 is being in the greek society, and that is exactly what we're trying to change with horizons to put greeks like me in the center of this. probably complaint it's color and when you talk about no feeling visible, do you mean specifically coming from a my community or not having great nation? i'd seen the 1st place or do you mean generally for the generation? i think it's, it's represents the generation of people that have migrate their heritage and to be visibility and vision be that i'd like to play was terms also comes from the front of the 2 are very visited for certain terms. and that is when people call you the grant and the cream, you know, and foreigner, but then you're visible when it comes to anybody. take anything to accomplish your think there were lots of specific things that happened in greece. say we call them crises, but also the label comes in it and i wanted to know how will these things to the
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effects of the education system and experience of students i so uh, well, uh we, we have uh no basic um, stuff that we need no basic infrastructure that we need in our schools and in our universities. and the problem is that the current government is actually trying to, to turn to the discussing and into a certain different direction because they focus on security and the police on compass one of the same moment. we don't have some basic stuff, but it's getting versus all around us and all around the world has. it was specifically the lowering of us, of budget during the crisis. and especially the, the get that a wide in between not lowering and upper classes when it comes to private spending as a ways um, we do have to get some private tutoring to get into university. and so it becomes
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very disproportionate for people of, for working class people to, to be able to help their kids to prepare their, their, their, to into get into university interesting is a way of me, current conservative government said to privatize everything. we've seen that happen with health care and now i think it's a very direct approach towards education. i think you might agree with me. we are very proud to have a public education system english for us. it's important to keep it public and the conservative government is trying to do it exactly opposite. we were just talking about student politics and i think around the world, she didn't pull its excuse to the left. but more generally in greece, the far right had gained popularity. nice, nice to believe with the near. not secret the golden doing. why do you think that's been the case? said when you have a diversion crisis and you have a space. i concrete, it's a grease that is a talk by many phones they. it's also i'm a grounds that creates different passivity. this one of them is for folks who is
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narratives, for example, phobic narratives for um, it creates an opportunity to for extreme ideas to come forth because people are struggling. right. and on top of the financial crisis, items 1008 in 2015, you had what they call the refugee crisis. so i think the system it says dave space, so golden don't exist because in that way they won't take the mainstream, extreme ideas that we actually see today in the conservative government. we cannot fly. there are specific people in the structures of the car and call them and that all seen the right side of the spectrum. right. so yeah, i think of denver pretty large because if you needed to express the stronger in october of 2020 the going to it was finally criminalized. and some of the leaders was sent to prison. is that the end of the story when it comes to the going on in the near, not see aspects of the far right increase range and i'll have them in the parliament . they are not in the strong public position that they,
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where they're not moving drug costs and couple of our days in our mainstream media . but in reality, they still exist. not all of them were jake, and not all of their ideas and narratives are buried somewhere beneath. right. and you still have their support, those around. i was talking with some people of this think all their own communicate. they're not. people are not ashamed to say that they support the goals and on and maybe when they be calm, then we can talk about it ending. but it's definitely not the case right now. do you agree with that? is that people aren't really ashamed to be associated with the golden don't me? i think the public out for the introducing decision. 92020. i understand how dangerous calling on was, especially after the killing of, of the popular spaces of families in green communities. and the thing was going crap or the people understand that it wasn't just a right wing party who was in the united simply notebook that was doing some criminal and terrorist activities. but the audio lindsey's is to where we have them,
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one of their members greeting part increase into caesar's, dean of a, 1000000 refugees of migrants landed on the shores of greece and rosa you went to work on the line and of some us, what did the experience show you. yeah, i mean that was definitely on defining experience. i think um, it is still hard for me to express what i went through. but for sure it's thoughts for me in main understand that is as, as a mcgraw, i had a really tough life. and the struggle most people are having a dog booth and worst. and that comes from the fact of what they go. so when they are in the, comes back in the day, the comp was open. today they are closed security facilities and international engineers like oaks time and amnesty international have the keys degree government of illegal pushed back some refugees across the border and prison like refugee senses. i wanted to know if you think that's a great public support these measures. i don't think medically public support this
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measures, but i think that there's a lack of information when it comes to the whole referencing issue increase because the media is now covering other other issues as, as a gas prices or the electricity prices of the war. and ukraine, so i think that especially in the mainstream media have been trying to, you know, and change and dialogue and take it as of as far away as, as a kind of from and why is that? because a government has turned comes from space district to walk into, to prison conditions. so there is, i think, for me it's a targeted approach to give out as data information as possible. and actually when there is information authentic media, it's being blocked and those journeys are being even stopped and followed by the government. and i wanted circle back to one key point and the media in the recent international press freedom index. it's published by reports as without borders.
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greece came last of all your opinion in countries behind bulk area and hungary. were you surprised about that? frankly speaking not, but the context only if we see greece and the media landscape seems to financial crisis. what you observe is that there's been really strong to funding of the of the, the media services. so what media does now is that they rely on public funding. what happens there is that the public funding goes to the hands of the media that are supporting the conservative government. so you have a system that is not fair. you have a system that is not a safe yeah. journalist, but i know 1st the investigative journalist being stopped by the government. so i think it's a, it's a matter of understanding that the ownership and the safety are really, really going down here. and i think it's, it's important to note that the government has refused to report this without food as findings. and they said that the majority of newspapers increased exercise phase criticism against the government. pinterest, what do you think about that response from the government?
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it has nothing to do with the reality we're facing increase because the press and the media here are operated by the one percent of the country. i may say, well, i think ties with the oil business in the shipping industry. and so for me, especially when it comes to, to my climate active is it was really difficult going to do and media when talking about climate change and talking about how these sleeping companies are destroying local communities. they wouldn't reports because they are owned by the people who are creating the problems and across the world. young people that's happening to social media instead for news information, anything really. and i wanted to know if there was any examples in greece that highlighted how certain platforms have been used to amplify issues to bring about positive change. the organization, for instance, gain popularity during the pedantic through social media, especially in the instagram because it gave us the opportunity to actually talk about issues that were not being talked about in, in may. so media,
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because we're talking about the educational crisis, somehow you wind up and dynamic. we had a inequality between people who could afford having like 2 computers at home having internet access because not everybody indeed i wanted to take. what we actually do is when we use social media to bring forth social change and it's actually working for them, we've had cases of refugee students have been denied asylum. and we really pushed a big social media campaign or needs to go and facebook. we went there and intervened in his school and when we actually saw as to the shang, any posting of that or do visual 5 and our, um, our own are not even our pulse. we actually managed to contribute into a whole system of support. that's got the kids use asylum approved. it was a really interesting experience for us because we are you guys are that we have a lot of power names to meet. it doesn't give us a space, but social media creat it's it's for us. the show is quote,
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generation change and i do want to know from both of you how you define your dentist generation compared to that of your parents. so i think that we are one of the most progressive generations. but at the same time with social media, sometimes we get the reason that we're active enough, but does not the case we, we need to be more active. we need to be more organized because our partners gave a lot of fights, especially during the dictatorship increase. we need people to get through the streets to organized in order to, to actually change something in order to be represented more. uh, but i'm often missing when it comes to, to my generation and being, you know, politically active. and that your experience has been quite different to that to the parents, because they came over here from another country. how do you see a world view as being different to this? but i think this is true for most kids that's coming from my grandparents. we are raised with a bunch of his st. john's, and you have to,
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i'd like to come to terms with the fonts butcher parents of sacrifice, most of their lives and liberties and freedoms for you to enjoy some of what you consider as a like the basic human rights. but yes, the subjugation, the ex corporate housing, i grew up being poor for a service and like part of my life. so i don't know if my parents had to go through that struggling way more than i did. so yeah, i see the privilege, i feel the owners and i feel thankful for their sacrifice. but my job is to make sure that my generation doesn't have to do that for the next picture is totally, it is non partisan. it is outside of the system at the moment. do you think that in the future you're going to have to work within the system in order to bring about change? and sometimes we also work with our system uh at that time because uh, basically when it comes to doing, talking with family members of environment or representatives. when get into
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conversations with them. uh, that being a partisan organization would be very, very difficult for us because at the moment we, we cannot fight ourselves and being represented in our interest being represented by specific party. that is a very, a very strange problem for, for us in race. and we need to be represented in hand more and we need to a political party that we'll talk about our problems in us, especially in the education system and, and the working the working rights issue, the people are facing non generations. i also want to ask you this question was i, i know that previously you have been very n t system, but now you work in brussels, which is the heart of the european system. how did that happen? and is that just and, and obviously menissi you getting a bit older a definitely i think the moment to understand that the by screaming on the outside you bring for so specific and meaningless, changed comes also in
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a honey high with being i think the older guess as you mature, i think at least for me and then doesn't have to be the case for everybody. understood that in order to change a system, you need to 1st empower yourself and protect yourself and then enter that system in order to change is going to be then and i think that's how you change it by bringing people like us in position of power. so that they can influence the new legislation and the new decisions that are going to then influence the whole society. i couldn't find any other way to sign the lease of the old are the things we've talked about. what was the crises, one of the issues, one of the problems, why do you care about change and do you think that it is realistic and possible? i think that i do. it gives me some great examples of, of, of things being made. uh, but it needs a lot of work. it is a little simple understanding that they have to be active in us, especially in greece, is that we have been going through so many crisis that we are power of
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a powerful enough to, to actually fight for, for our basic rights fight for our presentation. and i'm of domestic, that our generation is going to be able to understand and be more inclusive in a way of, of, of making changes possible for, for everybody. all of my life have been goals that i cut onto things. it starts from being on the ground and he goes to being a one day and it goes to being wake up for an area to show his stand today. and i think that i am living proof that you can start from last think and push against the system 1st, i guess by every obstacle brings you and there is way more brilliant examples than me. but this is where we have to be a yeah, i feel like i'm fear to empower people and sometimes to present them. so in a way i find this motive because there is
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a lot of work to be done better as well as i thank you. so much for being here today. that's all for this episode of generation change here in greece. the july jersey thing goes to the host of the local election, sort of shift to the right click the country with this another here with the info, right government. 11 piece meets the indian women breaking down gender barriers as they fight to become jumped to fetus the coast african meters from across the
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