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one that more beta is became a republic, and in many ways the fledgling democracy is still shaping its identity. though barbados has yet to recover after centuries of slavery, it's a nation that's not only reclaimed the narrative over its history, but that's emerged as a global leader and repaired of justice. this year, barbados hosted the 1st of its kind international summit on reparations for slavery . paving the way for other former colonies and the descent in southern slave to persons to demand reparations from european countries before international courts. as barbados looks toward a brighter future it strings as a society founded on the horrors of the slave trade. now built on a strong sense of remembrance and cultural pride when we ended up a little al jazeera bridgetown, barbados, the
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son of a picture of the headlines here this hour, at least $44.00 people have been killed in a suicide on the list pockets don't happen to need pleasure, district quartering, i've got a stone hold on 200, i presume, to come out of high to reports from islam of a deadly attack. and by jo are in the idea of one bar, the drug focused on former drive malaria, the attack or targeting a party well, good from the drum, the idea or am i islam of oil forwarding a convention that part the lead uh from the idea had been case, the number of fatalities driving by the all because many of them are critically wounded. many of them, of course, had to be taken out and faded across the bridge shotwell, where the american facilitates retreat, the more serious the wounded. the child's president's meeting is as qu, need is in an effort to put an end to the crisis. the west african regional block echo as has given the army a week to reinstate the president of the resort face minutes reactions with
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thousands of supporters of who have gavin in the jazz capital in the i'm a from says condemned an attack on the gates of its embassy and says, it will not hesitate to respond if french national, it's a home you crate in president me as lensky as well, and that war is coming to russia up to 3 ukrainian drones went down to the moscow. the drug attack was the 1st to target the heart of the cities financial district took. he has a freedom to take steps to prevent further buildings with the corolla. demonstrations were held in several countries last week after police committed a protest by a man threatened to bring a copy of the crown in stock. photo count, things on the way in the central african republic as a referendum on a new constitution that would allow presidents to i dare to stay in office longer does the headlines as always uh, website down to 0 dot com as the latest and a laptop stories state june, generation change is up next. thanks so much. i these people have nowhere to go to
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work forced out of their neighborhoods because of a fighting going on between rival gang, what he's up and nothing about special causes where they are for the special forces . this area used to be filled with people, but as you can see right now, it looks like a war zone. this is the largest hospital in haiti, and it has been fairly working for the past 5 months for the missionary fair or the barbecue has created what is known as the g 9. it's a federation of gangs, and it's one of the most powerful here. this road connects the communal fit to be with an other area that is not far away and were told that it was being used by gang. some people that had been kidnapped the east african largest economy, kenya is an african powerhouse. and home to it will be in the text that was 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high youth on
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employment, sewing living costs and a widening gap between rich and poor. i'm in a variety and it comes to kenya to meet to activate from the country, to capital, and i re be from fighting to social justice to come back to me please sided. the 1st one, empower the communities and make them safe. that well, permanency generation change a global series attempts to understand and challenge the ideas that make life around the world. the . so it's sunday, i'm going ahead and try to come here in times or which is where you're from, right? that's. and this is an important customer, but it will say the country's largest dental site. what was it likes?
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these are not the one of the challenges, the getting and not just on. and he said, he mean by that isn't about know, leaving for another time, smart enough for us to pay rent and food into the kitchen. that's way too much. i was sick of because she was in gifts getting in trouble. i'm just most of the stress and all that time. so in each of you, i ended up dying that let's go for when it was the laptop, the language however you and your mother passed away. i was 16. and what happened to uh, i ended up going with it doesn't say to a make except for 1000000 t a. it's a place where when comes and it wouldn't even doesn't have a place to go or scrubbing jeans i will collecting such so so that they can on that i get something for, you know, your rafa. and that's the,
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what was the transition like from, you know, being on that i'm tired of working that to be in office and doing what you do now. so uh, windows of the dump, say those us troops up. so even people are following me that's, that's the new companies that up for us, or they gave me some of the day before. so i know, and i, this is really and it's, i think it was very popular, was going out and then the visiting the places and people didn't need to find the stop. this will be set up like we need to find that. you need to find that, okay, so they came down the phone to me. i'm just trying to do some research. i to nanny came up with a project for them that i think that's sort of the transitions for me for the downstairs 715. okay. what's the this is the, how did working on it on site, but it says eyes here. whenever the website you feel like you are popular, doing a place where people don't appreciate, you don't have
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a voice that nobody gets that much when we walk. so initially for me, it was like, uh, i mean, one way, i'm fixing a lot of social devices when, if i'm sick, nobody guess if i, if i have a good solid, nobody can this nobody to share what, what they have those stuff. i'm going to divide video in the mornings and find them my desk. yeah. so i was seeing them as the as the reload the and make sure you will find the good to see the hate because the country equals. so i wanted to talk to you via larry, you've done prior to something's about extra additional cleanings and the police know, getting people who that had lost 3 friends. our in our center dumpsite because of it's like additional kidding. they was beaten after the missed on
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a phone. that was so my, there was, i was angry. so that's the way i think i started becoming moving into practice social issues on the not anything that we are the one they want to die or do you want to move in or not out dined or to bump into you when and there's also an organization called the kenya, which you work in and you deal with these projects and young people. can you tell me that that what you do with them? okay, so of course the community based organization that works with the kids from the age of 5 through 17, to ensure that they're safe and easy, that they don't. and that's a society special devices. he's coming to you to use class days, drama, class this point. see, we play games, the kids forget to be of the money screwed into find of a $100.00 plus the new talents. of course, seen someone is he does be more often than even any other opportunity.
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the going theory, you corresponded them, atari, social justice center, which aims at tactical forms of structural vine. and can you explain a bit about what made you want to start the organization? i was born in my body and the girl of the month, interest phase. the sick one biggest fly mean can now i love my, that is, you know, i was a have your titles and when i became an adult is when i could see now the violence. i think people in my community loved going through the cold. let's see. the police brutality, the police came in, the law of clean water. so growing up in mother is
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like growing up in a village, but everybody knows everybody. so when something happens to one of us really seen it. so the killings any particular too much, it was just too much. so to challenge that we formed methodical shows us the sensor . and were there any person experiences that you live in missouri that made you want to start the organization? yes, um. my own brother was killed by a police in to a 7 to void for selection violence in canada. and that with a lot of other young people that i am grown up, we've been killed. and this is not just my ariano, and this is a story of many young people in my day do a to have a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police when you're a window outside the inventory. so you can adjust this thing. so can you tell me
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a bit about the why fi g day today? it is today receive cases from the community on the trends of it is that to be a lucky one, to bring justice to the community members mostly receive cases of police brutality of people who have been interested with not enough reason. i guess i lived in a bit violent, but we have a community engagement, like watching film, planting, trees, community cleanup, community have illustrations. and every time we meet the center, we have to sing because the sun, an energy that comes when we things together into just i just on to continue watching this class of seeking justice and dignity for our people. the.
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i wanted to ask you about the time in 2020, when you were a pretest against police brutality and you resisted arrest from 3 of police offices . and it was a huge reaction because the video of this happening went viral and lots of people. so read how was that experience to you? and were you surprised by the reaction that it? yes, i was surprised that even when level i didn't know it was going to be that impossible . that i i'm a woman that was able to stand up for myself. made the young man in my couldn't you see more emboldened to sign up for themselves? it made them feel more helpful. i also have to say that at that very moment, it was the pain of every month i have worked with in thinking just as for the sun, every case i have documented every single person i have seen lose that lives in my
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community. a gave me the strength to say that this was enough, and this feeling how much are still the so one gera dice, 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 under the age of $35.00, but only 40 percent of youth at registered to vote in the recent elections. why do you think it is that so few people are registered to vote here in kenya under the age of 35. i think it was a, a one uh form of existence from the people from the 8000000 tenants who did not come on towards i think they was saying that they did not want to be a part of this. they wanted
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a system that works for them. and on the other hand, i think one thing is important because it's the only way we're going to put someone who could walk for us. but i think it was very loud that they would so tired of this system of oppression. and what do you think this, how did you feel about the election and how did young people that, you know, speak about the election? remember before left, so new. i mean, we were in a crisis of course, the 19 and of course, even the death i'm into uh, previously there one not even doing a lot of the people that they were just making that people saw followed because the, there was not a lot of coffee was people people not going to job so in that when it comes to people now being told to vote and they were like and on the same government didn't campbell it. that's why are they getting now they don't respect the voices. they don't tell what they say, but the one task to do what they see and that's, that's how we feel like it's what is not possible. it doesn't change anything. do
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you also feel that sense of advocacy towards the system? i do because women would say, send the country, good independence with little change. look at the community to where i come from. it's still the same for her to from before. so people are beginning to relate with, i mean, why do i even go towards it doesn't change my life in any way. how do you think of that change if you withdraw from the system is that exists now? how can you amplify the issues that matters? he mice, or i think we need another tentative system that sense as people at the very core of the issues we have trying to address how we need to bring about changes, organize ourselves as the youth and advocates with one voice as one girl about the issues that much i to us, i feel like we shouldn't take a box it and watch and complain and say this system doesn't work for us. these people are corrupted. and we actively organized against the system. together. i
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know the both care about extrajudicial headings in kenya, around the world. they were conversations around police brutality, and that's at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extrajudicial killings? the americans typed in the hashtag blacklist, martha. i think it, it, it might the most in can. because a, personally, i've looked 20 plus friends, most of them was killed by police and more justice. and initially this is this specific one of the den daughter. so if you imagine how many happens each end every day and my dad and keep that in, in, in, in the streets. so it's quite a very, very big issue that hasn't been happening. and we haven't been getting that solution. and wonder how would you explain it? now, as i'm british colony, when we go to independence,
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the police service that we're serving, the colonial government did not change when it's done looking as i became president . ok now he continued with the same police force that the colonial government was using and therefore pressing on, that's the practices of trauma that would cost up on the people to present the cabinets, leaving and in for most instruments, when judge floyd was killed by 10 year old yes and miles killed in all communities . and when we planned the protest those this last time i saw kenya's soul invested in calculating methods of exciting to show things in the country. usually we will hold our demos, the name, foremost settlements. i think judge slater hills can connect said a fast struggle in the us and us from without hand came out in the large numbers to say, we demand an interests any additional candidates. so police offices of justified 72
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percent of the kennings of happened alleging that they were result of anti crime operations. and i wanted to ask within the communities, is that a slight tension that just 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? yes, that happens. but i think it's um, we live in a country that prides itself in upholding visual noval. what do we have? well, let's say is, if someone has been found doing something wrong, can we have a little before or can we have them arrested and taken to court and prosecuted instead of the police this id to be the judge and the judy and they've victor shawna because this is what happens most of the time. and this is a crime not just in can no, but everyone else. i do not think police have a right to take away anybody's life when they is a law that can be followed. for me, the biggest issue has been the quality. they are not treating people the same. like
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we have been having news like a, a southern pass. so let's go to a took mindful day for the government, the se in these governors on news, but then not being killed. why is it that in where we leave and then the someone on just the phone? it was my dad, a cleaning on this, the cleaning all according to the, the little so the, we need to, we need to put it clear that it needs to be an, an important thing that we feel like it's not if it's not dry and equally, i'm trying to dash, uh bill is the case of calls in being in this like some people in government and stolen dealings made so many tickets. they fits, of course with names and in the country. and during this period, there was also um, a lot of property in the communities, and actually the police did not as waste their coven dns despite having been a protest. it is the people protesting against this. go with the union,
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that's what actually i raced it. so what that she's saying is there's a distinction between people who are ceiling to survive. and people who are stealing from the people. because then government solo from the poor in that particular incent which led them to lead groups. when you say that you're fighting for justice, what does justice look like? fear? so for me, justice means uh this, this so consistent like people shifted. same uh they said this list is like following the little when the boys came with the police, the one to remember that 600 additional kidding to you are not given a find me to be the by the police to conduct a fundraising. so as can get funds to do the body image, why don't you have in good justice because that, that's almost game that need strong to, you know, given a, find me so for this, nor does it there. so if i, if i guess is that people shouldn't be treated equally. that's what does this mean?
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so what about you? wonder at what is justice look like to you? and when you're fighting for that, what is it that you're thinking about? my brother was killed by police. justice ideally would look like me guessing left my brother. but that is not possible. so injustice would look like preventing people from losing their loved ones. still anything that would make sense for me. so the reason we, i'm fighting that physically needs to solve so can, is do not have to move through unnecessary, paid close by the bullet. so has that ever been a time that you have seen just as an action in kenya with regard to, you know, police kennings. if there was a case to offer the name of the office on monday station for over a company station who killed someone in the police station who drowned them in a drum full of water. and as the inmates could see that. and when we documented
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this case together with international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions we had and to show a certain justice for my team call me and that enlightment when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. and that was the 1st day i saw a justice in action in this country. and i want to move the conversation a little bit and says, all the areas i know you care about. i want to specifically also talk to you guys about music. it feels like it is really a lifeline view. so for me, music is life. uh, i feel like uh, the way the way people have a power like the police have the gun and they feed ball for me. they've done so for me it's in buffalo and they have music because it's part of my life. last year we had the case of very beginning to end or where police was looking for a site and then the southern thief. uh, when did i mean he, he went to his friends on some of the defense or not if so the police ended up getting everybody under the that's all. it was all about stuff. it's like you're
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just getting, we need coincides to the community just to send them a that is social justice centers and all that. and we be good just is to do they follow the ad and we've got new new police. and are there any other names of people or any other examples of cultural or music be you have found to be powerful or inspiring and can you listen to me? i see mine and the song, mississippi, and good them about police brutality, the full gus that identify and became a big issue for the black people over there. they went to a protest singing that song made them feel full possible. and nina, hassle of felt like headlight slide more relevance we should see to advance the struggle of last people. what you're saying about them is still very rel of lunch today in the us. and also we know communities in countries back home
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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 i'm to find messages like the ones that you care about? most. mostly i've been using social media as well as sort of like a proof. and whenever you have so, so maybe it's easier to even tell people like this, these are part of the things that they have done. so indeed up this a time, she had issues with the police when they wanted to make others. how may force new york we also that because of the social media. so this means that when we did send, it would be to move off. and so many people are inspired by high just because of this story. and this is because of the social media. it has even happened both even industry to someone is being that if they've done this using especially difficult people that he has to be noticed and then he hasn't done anything. so i have said that social media have played a very, very big role in terms of documenting issues. one very easy use youtube to teach
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that kind of alternative history. and i wanted, if you could speak to me a little bit about why you've done that, i love history. i think history is very liberating. when you get to see me know and understand. i think present the generation is quite disconnected with our very clearly as history of the past. for example, my communities, my, my home in my diary has been around for a 100 years. it's been a century of survival and resistance since 1920 to my battery has been existing. think it's the oldest, get to him can. so we've had presidents from 91063 who have done something to change the faith of the people of my di. but they did not, this is we have structural violence comes in that the people who continue to be neglected and continue to be exposed to system. they make violence of social
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injustice this. so 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 to know for children's children and similar needs. as i know you can relax 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 uh, of course i'm proud of myself if cit, from, from where i've come from and where i am. i'm a needs to to both of our 1010000 kids have identified the new talents among the successful stories that they have is that about 50 young guys do not end up being and dropping off of school. i li, pregnancies, but we have monday to get them out of such issue so. so most of a proud to fall of the defies that i've gone through in ensuring that the things that right this sounds that they've done and all that as a final notes. what is it,
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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 can see needs to do what you're doing? well, it's just me going is knowing that i'm on the right 5 and i'm doing my little thing towards contributing to the betterment of society. like one guy mother. i said to everybody around there was a little thing towards making the middle place. so that is my initial thing and i'm happy doing it. there is a now let's wake up every morning to ensure that what i'm being the, i'm not even paid or anything is just because i need to see a good future. i need to see a bit and or i need to see a bit of canyon. i need people to not leave the life that i have believed. so that's a elizabeth up every morning for me to tell kids which, which if i'm in the and also for the future,
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