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just came with some of these recoveries where they, i guess, human or non human biologics, non human. and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program i talked to that are currently still on the program. the pentagon flatly denies this allegation, but cover says it wants answers and this considering a bill that would force to buy new ministration to make public every thing it knows what he calls you, a piece of identified aerial phenomena. another witnesses if that happens, you know, look out for talk of a flying black cube, 10 miles off the coast of virginia beach to f. 18 super foreigners were split by you. i p. the object described as a dark gray, or black cube inside of a clear spear, came within 50 feet of lead aircraft and was estimated to be 5 to 15 feet in diameter. the mission commander terminated the flight immediately and returned base . our squadron submitted a safety port, but there was no official acknowledgement of the incident and no further mechanism to report the sightings like. congress wants to change that in hopes of answering
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the age old question. are we really alone? medically elses here, washington the, this is all just here and these are top storage now is as president has tweeted, the boeing that the hard one achievements of his nation will be protected. the tweets came out as off to sold as a paid on national television, claiming to have over throwed the price into mohammad as the default to the c p d. we. the security defense forces have gathered at the national council for the safe guard of the nation and have decided to put an end to the regime you are familiar with. this follows the continuous deterioration of the security situation and the bad social and economic management. we reaffirm all supports to all commitments undertaken by new jeff pinto was having held in 10 year to on a dozens of people killed an anti government protest. opposition leader. why they
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didn't go accused the government of ordering police to use excessive force during demonstrations against the cost of living is ready orthodox, jews of enter. the alexa must compound the mocking. the holiday of t shipment have numerous names on not allowed to print from any religious rituals inside the site and the old city was very sac lives in the far right. public fissions have been increasingly defined the back in greece raging while fi as a force. thousands of people to flee 5 thoughts as i stood with battling on several fronts to contain the flames, which are destroying factories and farm land. so far, 5 people have died in tens of thousands to leave their homes and one of the results on the, on the roads more than 20000 service in the cool segment. evacuated from the region . as a north korea's leader came till noon has met russia's defense minister of the high ranking chinese delegation, intone young north, cris defense minister says russia and killing young are united in countering what
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they called, gangs to knock us hagaman a both russian and chinese delegations of visiting north korea as part of the san francisco on the bus, sweet of the korean war. almost as all the headlines in these continues to alter their off to generation change u. k. after world war 2 from says, great empire began to unravel in vietnam to most of the people who was james. and so i was in the street the best thing with joy kissing each other. and algeria, she lives in the shingle as a split, even though chinese managed to beat the french army. why not die? the decline continues an episode to us legends, his french t colonization on al jazeera. on the verge, look on public confrontation, young people across the u. k,
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a putting the bodies on the line to force the attention of the issues that my so to that meanwhile, the u. k. government is coming down and protest it considered as disruptive and anti social with new rules and hostile consequences. welcome to generation change, a global series attempts to understand and challenge the ideas that might provides you around. well, today we meet to active. this is different methods to push and they'll be for change. whether it's direct action or engaging with the political system. they come pain or issues ranging from the climb, emergency to migrant lights, and the play belong straight. the
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says that to me you born in canada to somebody parents that you grew up here in london. what plenty to see to doctors and see what plans to proceed for me was growing up in the early, 2, thousands and the backdrop of the rock floor everywhere you loved me. it was talking about most firms and talking with people that looked like me. and i think that sold me with a lot of anger and kind of confusion and i became quite assessed to politics if i didn't engage in that politics was definitely engaged with me and my identity in setting the terms. and i didn't about top of i think people are familiar with the time. climate crisis will climate imagine the venue spoken about climate justice. what do you mean when you talk about us for a long time? we've talked about climate change as an environmental issue, right? x spots climate change is a symptom of a system not breaking down and not working and responsible for a lot of other injustices. so whether we're talking about racial injustice,
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whether we're talking about the housing crisis, or inequality at the heart of it as an economy that prioritizes profit and profit for the few. and then is pondering people on time that so we have the same companies who are responsible for the vast majority of emissions are also responsible for poor working conditions and low wages. they're also responsible for not paying taxes, and you have to pick up the bill. people so when we talk about climate justice we talk about building a hopeful vision of the future. that means we can tackle other social injustices and the pursuit of timeframe. how much i hope people would say that there are many climate movements of the name. it was a fight a against the climate crisis. say, where did you see a got a new organization? green you do rising in g and d rising. we haven't better than an analysis of things that the climate movement
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hasn't necessarily gotten right. one of them is my time limit for a long time has been white and middle class. and we will know in order to be something as big as climate change, we need everyone. and so how do we include everyone's? what if we built an economy? that's the only priority was to serve people in panic. we would have an economy that invested in communities that built wells for communities that lived within planetary boundaries because we're investing and renewables and public transport. and that's what we're doing. i bring it to a rising as we're talking about the green deal, which is an economic transformation that allows us to thrive in the future and tackle climate change. the other thing to for different about what we're doing is for political or main tack, take us to find them keys and hold them accountable in terms of challenge them and film them so that we have them on record. and when we put them on line, you know, it's up to the electra to decide whether these people are for us and against us. not much in the places i like to go much. i appreciate one of our most popular
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challenges is when we challenge pretty fatality, the former home secretary who's passing the time to kind of off shore refugees and migrants to lawanda for processing. and we went to a fundraising dinner. she was hosting and disruptive that, that engage when the and actually it wouldn't buyer or i think a lot of people looked at it and ask themselves why it's time to best talking about migrations. things like the rwanda plans are just a distraction to get us to be angry at migrants. people who just want better lives and opportunities instead of being angry at a political class that is just taking more and more from working people and giving us less than return the
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good or your dad is published in your mom is a rock a, but you were born and bred and the u. k. how did your family story and background check your what would be? well, for my family, we were actually the only ones from both sides of the family to have a come to west and couldn't change. so i have most of my thoughts, how many living enjoy the next style and all of my mom's family, we live and get it right. so when you go pay proof that kind of background, it's very difficult to not be politically your way as a young person. what was your 1st kind of experience of activism in doing the type of work the day i so i was researching into my university and i set up a bar quite divestment of sanctions campaign. got many students and academics and thoughts and then later went on to replicate the some other universities and this
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really laid the foundations for, for what like to respond as part of sign action. the . can you tell me a little bit about palestine action? well, let's each one to started. so how do i sound action? is there a diary it's actually met? what on our main focus on our main target is out, but systems which is as low as largest dom spend as specifically it was started because all of the i've been used to bring in alms and barger between bricks and is where i've had fails and clear things through the political process through labor, specifically, which tire was involved in as well as the route sales. then dive in action was to be left open for us. so we started off by nation, a storming into that headquarters in london space, lansing, across the offices. and kept going back again and again, and eventually more and more people joining our,
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our network. so one of the mazda of factories and all of them was boss too. so i must have lost and they were false to binds, and i learned that has courses. so for us, we want to continue to grow with this movement until all of our big sites will shut down in this country. can you explain why is chosen speak? some open systems may produce the vast majority of as well as military drone plays . we've seen how this is used by the cops of population of guys uh, routinely. they market them as bottle tested or compact proof and, and then use that cell onto or that way, teams across the walls. they even use it against the people of customers. for example, iraq, afghanistan, and many other places also against refugees here who were trying to seek safety in this country say, they also build electronics for the apartheid wall. the same system is being used between us and mexico. so we can see how it starts off in palestine, and as it is used against other people across the wells. can you explain exactly
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what risks you run yourself in order to carry this out? we were quite heavily targeted, i think at the start of palestine action, we saw that followed up by res. i'm on our homes, but the co found is, is include thing arresting. richard bond on another co found for black mount i missed, was asked that he said that he would go in hunger strike if the landlord did not fixed out. but they did continued to charge several of the squares that so were facing towards the block. now, at the conspiracy to connect some of the damage and since thursday to back on guessing the rest is kind of positive, the plan is not the end of the process. but it's, i'd say in the call process in itself is an extension of the action. and it's why we can try and force his complaints to basically give out information that they would not normally give out. but you are running a real risk and you know, instead of going to prison, if this continues to operate, you know,
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mom or lives are going to be taken. and so i'm more than willing to accept the prison. as a consequence, i will still be a lot better off than most people who have to you at the end of these weapons to kick things off, i just want to ask and then you can always gone through so many big changes. do you think that young people are disillusioned or do you think they all politically engaged? active, what's your opinion at the moment? i think both i think young people are, does this illusion that i'm one of them? i'm but we are also political. i think we're in this period we're actually social activism and social movement. i've never been more active and, and not, and it's have it. but it's the political elite. and you know, i look toral politics, but i think is what's the solution in young people because we have a electronical system in a voting system, not
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a is not representative it but also push people with bold action. they want their economy to work for them in their communities. they want action on climate change. they want investment in our public services. the only reason we survived the pandemic were pete because of front line service workers. i thought we all agreed during the time that back that those are the people that should be at the heart of our communities. they are the people that we should be investing in. and the only reason in bold action is because we still have in place political leaders who somehow haven't caught up with a consensus. the fact is that many young people are the solutions with a political system. but i think a way more political than, than ever before because the political system, i mean like told politics has failed. so many people, and i think a situation of call been and later on a lot of young people into poly politics. and they felt like that was a very cool for change. and when that didn't work for myself, at least it opened my eyes to realizing that we cannot afford to invest our time
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into a system that wasn't designed for us. but that doesn't mean that there is a ways that we can be politically active and change our society from the grassroots rather than through, appealing to the powers that be to create those changes for us. i mean, i would say that i don't see social movements being successful unless they have a political weight and so it's not about whole. so giving up on like toral, of them or politics. it's about trying to use the power of social movements from the grass roots to kind of course that change and we, we see it happening around the world actually enlighten america. we're seeing the hopes of that sort of political wing of progress, the politics starting to take power. you know, if you look up july, for example. and while we had that defeat in 2019 with the carbon slight for i do see, you know, i'm pardon maddox enough to see that there is another way into power. we just need to build stronger movements. i think for climate change it may be slightly different and you're right, you do need a complete overhaul of the system,
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which will require the state and the government to get behind it. but i think when it comes to see imperialism and politics and support of the policy and people, then jeremy call up and was an exception. i believe for what we've had for the past 100 years of successive governments. and no politician in this country has ever shut down an alms back today. whereas people have faith, if you'll nathan's all quite young and they refunded around 2019, which was just the full of the cable pandemic. and then, you know, we've had the warranty crane when you look at one of those issues on the outside, how do you think they impacted your, what i'm, what you're trying to achieve. so we started at an interesting time in 2019. um, it was a time when it was kind of the kind of activism around climate change. i don't think i've ever seen before. you had, you know, extinction rebellion we had to time of strikers. you have the u. k. announcing the 1st sort of net 0 target by 2050 in the world. and then early in 2020,
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a pandemic came, people were suddenly talking about government intervention. we're talking about investment instead of austerity. we're talking about building back a better and not going back to the economy pre pandemic. and coming out of the pandemic, we have the crane war, which put stressors across europe, particularly on energy supply. and what we saw was the u. k. announce new north sea oil and gas, and that's put us in a really difficult position because investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure doesn't help us meet our me, our energy needs now, and it doesn't lower energy bills, but also just puts us in perpetual crisis because the climate crisis is not going anywhere. huda id feel about all of the big events that happened recent years and how that directly impacts what you day. yes sir, for some context we launched at the end of july 2020. and then in may 2021. this is when we saw a boot and a solid people of gaza,
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people being forced out that homes and in jerusalem. and we saw a massive increase and people following and joining public time option and supporting the cause. during that time, there was a factory and full activities have climbed onto the top of the re all set fox, 3 in lester, and move in a couple of hours. hundreds from the local community came out support those acts today. and then we saw the fire surface pull out and says, and refuse and say to the place that we will not meet these protesters. so for us, it was about going straight to these arms companies, specifically out but systems and bypassing the political process. and that strategy also expose the fact that this company exists here because many alms companies, they kind of hides in plain sight in these factories and industrial towns that you wouldn't know what the difference was between that one and the one next, all which bills tories for children and we found that to be extremely successful
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was before we had never seen that type of success and for staying the closure of is really honest. factories in this country 2022. so people across the u. k. facing flooring in place and, and a rapidly rising cost of living prices that plus prices and strikes in $1.00 into 3 after another from 30 still and trying to bulwark his fidel cuz i'm a lawyer. so i want to know what, like if you think about how far it is that you should be able to go to in terms of getting your points across. and i think it's distance for different movements. so for the change strikes on, is that right? and but so, so in order for them to gain the rights of mass salary and the device, so they deserve as well, cuz then it's necessary for them to disrupt the tray line. i think paula said, action is quite different though to was extinction galleons tactics mainly because
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expansion volume is more focused on disrupting at the public as a whole as a way of posting pressure on the government in order to enact that they, they radical change. it needs on the climate where it was for us, we are more focused on directly disrupting the companies. we talk reducing weapons, so there was less impact on the public. i was, i was just, i just had the are usually about us on action. goes a step further than extinction. rebellion smashing up. yeah. conference rooms causing damage to the appropriate a. so how do you justify that? well, what smashing up an honest company west, i think that ability to produce weapons and i think many people would agree that you kind of put a price on one human life. you can put a price on a window or a fax or a, a reef, for example. i'm not sure never come at the cost of human life if you saw
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a child with as a human being about to be high and you had to knock down it all in order to help them knock out the door without, without hesitation. and that's exactly the same principle, or do you have anything that you would add? yeah, absolutely. i am a student of social movements and we often are to a white washed version of whether it's martin luther king or gandhi, or the women's rights movements. huge parts of those movements took direct action that really did stop daily life going on for people are politicians. and so we're going to need movement set, take a variety of different actions. and the fact that we're in a day and age where we think striking workers removing their labor as being extreme . well, who said we have a right over their labor, right? if we're not creating a conditions that are fair for them to work and why should they not down their tools? and so i've been really inspired to see the union leaders that have been on our
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television articulating the fears and hopes of ordinary working people. in 2022, the case of men cruelty and legislation to combat e as disruptive person now in the public or the bill coming for economy wants to introduce even hoster will. we will also increase a maximum penalty to disrupt and remote away criminalized interference with t infrastructure such as rows, railway, and our repressed. i'm here, so please, i'm the quote new power. it's not a human rights design do i? don't mind freedom of expression to protest. finally, no, you just stop right, well, glue yourself to the rose and get away with it. critics who these messages to threaten long standing democratic freedom. the government says they are needed because recent protest by minority of actually there have been dangerous training
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public funds. and so i bet he police resources. what do you think about these, even though isn't bills and they effect so how do you think it will impact the way you move forward? i think people embrace and for a long time is to thank the author are terry and is in was the domain of certain country is when actually, you know, britain has exercised it around the world for a long time. and now it's here at home and trying to curtail protests on one side. it shows that we're being impactful because actually the, the government is needing to legislate on specific types of protests. on the other hand, i think a lot of people are worried. i've just seen in spaces when we're talking about protests and thinking about the type of actions that we are planning these bills package are written they factor into who's willing to take these action. it is an incredibly hostile moment for our movements, but this is the moment we can let them when, because it becomes the new norm and then therefore we're unable to sort of cool back and you're right. so if we let that become something that's accepted today,
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you're running those rest already are running the risk of things and to present and how do you feel about all of this happening? because i'm all attack 6 already based on direct action. i'm over the criminalized . the new bills don't affect toes that much, but actually the more they try and repress, i'm put on new laws and you bells, i think the more people actually moved towards more radical types of options. we saw recently at the end. so you monica, a protest, people coming investors for just shouting slogans like, who elected them, you can face the rest for that. then one of the rest is for shutting down an honest company. i think that what they are, what they've done is go to and buy clashing and help movements. what the government says that these bills are necessary. because guerrilla tactics used by small minority afraid test is of course, disproportionate impact on the hard watching majority seeking to go about the
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everyday lives. what do you make the argument? we looked at for the breakdown the climate and, and in order to get the message across that forced into a situation where they're forced into blocking the general public, then it's for the great to got. i think when people take more drastic action, it's in response and wrong, and i'm blaming those activists. we have to blame the government who didn't act fast just to be kind of illuminate a bit more we did. we did an action over the summer where we disrupted the hot springs of the conservative party who were trying to choose their new leader, and i disrupted the speech of less trust. the reaction in that moment as i was being dragged away was like show the militants activities such as extinction, rebellion know, table to disrupt ordinary people who what caused the, the right thing. i guarantee what they want to create
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a situation where the government of the day decides what they think is fair, what they like. who are the good guys, who are the bad guys? democratic societies don't work like that. democratic societies are one to allow for there to be debate that allows for people to have different opinions for people to organize and help determine that their future. and we're slowly sort of walking away from that kind of society, them into one that's governed by a few. if you could take a step back and imagine the world that you want to see, what is it that you want to see the future like you like in the u. k, i one a, a future where we have the sort of democratic renee song, some people are able to be involved in decision making. and that decisions as a society are based on what benefit people and benefit planner over process. you know what the timeline of climate change while so it's gary. i think we have opportunity in this window to make sure that the way that we tackle the climate
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crisis is one that has just to set its heart. but there is a risk, right? i think governments will find a way to tackle climate change, but it's not secure that they're going to do it in a way that's fair. i think everyone now believes climate change exists and the main stream, the fight is over, how we tackle it. and we wanna make sure we tackle it in a way that protects our communities. what by you had, i mean your future might involve time in prison. but if you would kind of imagine that the seats that we're going to pay off, how would it look? well, i think the office 1st one would be and i'm to as well as arms chase and threaten. i've implemented people or rather glad as london was largest export yvonne's. i'm have a tiny island as are so much roots back to here. so if it has a must have overhauled of that whole industry for that kind of thinking and tactics to be transported to other countries. and then i believe, you know, hopefully within a lifetime we can see if we palestine before that to happen. we need sanctions and
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attention to any quality pollution meant extra disease. ok and county has low income communities. silent brother was killed by police. they don't fit the voices but the one past one day and organize that are on the record. how old are these people off with the gun supplementing buffer? then it has been put on the bus that april gorbinko who brought in generation change. can you change is coming is no doubt about it on a dizzy to water
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is life but in palestine it's an instrument of bulky patience. with israel controlling the majority of palestinian water resources and destroying hundreds of sanitation structures. simians are being deprived of a universal human rights. people in power investigates with an isaac walter and palestine on a jersey to the diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of a network analysis era. the so i'm kind of, we don't seem to have the top stories on, i was just there in is there a group of soldiers have appeared on national television saying present to mohammed by zoom.
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