tv Generation Change Kenya Al Jazeera July 31, 2023 12:30pm-1:01pm AST
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for colonies and the descendants of enslaved persons to demand reparations from european countries before international courts. as barbados looks toward a brighter future it strings as a society found it 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 your headlines on ours is 0. this our funerals have been held in northwest packets them after a suicide bomber killed. at least 54 people at a political gathering. the attacker targeted a religious party in the drawer near the border with afghanistan on sunday. pakistan's prime minister described it as an attack on democracy. come at a height or is advocacy. suspicions all that this is uh the, uh, this is an operation guided are by dies that did this law make state. now,
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if you look at the area as the girl fly, the audio, the distance through the gone border, it's less than 10 kilometers from way we off and off the, the fall of the, of run government and the take over of the i've gone solid bon. most of the delegate dollar bond focused on a relative by the relative dice, have a group on the run side of the border. they're able to send smaller games this year, as military rulers have accused friends of planning an attack on the presidential palace. in order to free hosted president mohammed bassoon coolly to submit the president of chad who is trying to negotiate a peaceful end to the political crisis. the ukraine presidents letting me as a lensky has one. the war is coming to russia after 3 drones. we're down to over moscow. she's got a sham. this does not a bundle with russian aggression has gone bankrupt on the battlefield to deluxe it
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. today is the 500 and 22nd day of the so called special military operation, which the russian leadership expected to last for a week or 2, not ukraine is getting stronger the gradually the wars returning to the territory of russia to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable natural and absolutely fair process. i believe we opposition groups in bangladesh of calls a nationwide process just days after police crack down on anti government demonstrations on saturday, thousands of on positions supporters march to demanding that the prime minister resign. there's been renewed fighting in lebanon's, i know ho way, refugee camp after a short lived ceasefire between 1000 infections. at least 6 people were killed being 2 days of fight it. i know 0 headlines as always. our website delta 0 dot com has all the latest on our top stories up next is generation change on alpha 0 to state you sears from. i'll just say around
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on the go and need tonight. out is there is only mobile app, is that the, this is where we just fix allies from out is there is a mobile app available in your favorites apps to just set for it and typed on a new app from out to 0 new at your think is it the 8th asked because largest economy, kenya is an african powerhouse. and home to a $1000000000.00 tech but with 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high. you've got employment, sewing living costs, and a whitening gap between rich and poor. i'm in a variety and it comes to kenya to me, to act to this from the country,
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to capital. and i re be from fighting to social justice to come back to me please sided. the boast wants to empower the communities and make them safe. that well, permanency generation change a global series attempts to understand i'm challenged. the idea is it may be like 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 like for you growing up there? so one of the challenges that gives you additional initially mean by that isn't
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fully assigned as a task. smart enough for us, they lands and falls into the case on us 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. really heavy. i ended up dying that let's go for windows laptop, 39. how old are you and your mother passed away? i was 16. and what happened to uh, i ended up doing that doesn't say to make except for 1000000 t, it's a place where when comes and it wouldn't even doesn't have a place to go or scrubbing jeans we'll collecting such so so that they kind of get something for you know, your rafa and that's the what was the transition like from, you know, being on that i'm tired working that to be an artist and then what you do now. so uh windows of the dump, say those as cheap stuff. so even people are calling me that's,
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that's the new companies that upfront, either they gave me some of the day before. so i know, and i, this is really and at that time he was very popular, was going at all 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 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 the book sitting on it. that's sort of the transitions for me for the downstairs $715.00. okay. what's the this is the, how did working on his on site and it's his eyes here. whenever that obviously if you feel like you're popular as you are in a place where people don't appreciate to, don't have a voice that nobody cares so much for you. so initially for me, it was like, uh, i mean i want to weigh a, i'm fixing a lot of social devices when, if i'm sick,
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nobody guess if i, if i have a good solid, nobody can this nobody to share what, what they have those performing. cuz they buy the video in the mornings and find them my desk there. so i was seeing them as the, as the reload in the front of the card to see how he's because the country goes. so i wanted to talk to you via larry echoed, you've done quite a few songs about extrajudicial kennings and the police know who can and people who live had a lost 3 friends. our in our center dumpsite because of its, i give you some kidding. they was beaten after the missed on a phone. i was so much they was, i was hungry and so that's the way i think i started becoming moving back to social issues on the not anything the 11 a day or 2. we're not,
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we're not out dined or to bump into you when 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 a bit about what you do with them? okay, so of course the community based organization that lots of kids from the age of 5 to to 17, to ensure that there seems in dc. so that didn't the end of the day society's special vices. he's coming to you to use a class. this drama class, this point. see, we play games, he repeats, forget the be a monday straight into find the 100 plus the new talents. of course, the and someone is, he does be more powerfully than even any of that to the
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going theory. you corresponded the med, sorry, social justice center, which aims it, talk to the old forms of structure. right. and can you explain a bit about what made you want to stop by your organization? i was born in my battery and i grew up in massages for the sick. one biggest fly mean can now i love my, that is, you know, i was a happy child. and when i became an adult is when i could see now the violence that the people in my community loved going through the cold. let's see if when this group policy, the police came in, the local, clean was so growing up in mother is 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,
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it was this too much. so to challenge that we formed but that is social justice center. and were there any past experiences that you live in missouri that made you want to stop the organization? yes, i'm my own brother was killed by a police in to a 7 to void for selection violence inc. hannah. and that with a lot of other young people that have grown up sleep being killed. and this is not just my story and, and this is a story of many young people in, by the way to have a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police the winter when now i was biased, them it, sorry. so here, just as soon as i can you tell me a bit about the was the day today, it every day receive cases from the community on the trend of it is that to be a lucky one,
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to bring justice to the community members most new is this case is open this mortality of people who have been arrested with not enough reason, i guess as of the end of this violence. but we have community engagements like watching film planting, trees, community cleanup community have been once rationed. and every time we meet this center, we have to sing the sun, an energy that comes when we things together and to just i just on to continue watching this class or speaking, justice and dignity. black people. the, 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 there was
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a huge reaction because the video of his happening went viral and lots of people. so read how was that experience you? were you surprised by the reaction that com? 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 community a small and voltage to sign up for themselves in midland field mall household i also have to say that at that very moment, it was the pain of every month i have walked with in thinking just as for the sun every case i have documented every single person i have seen lives that lives in my community. i gave me this trend to say that this was enough. and this feeling how much are still
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the 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 can you out 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 a 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 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
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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 uh, making that people saw followed because the there was not a lot of coffee was people, people not going to job. so 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 if what is not possible, it doesn't change anything. the fullest. i feel that sense of advocacy towards the system i do because women would see since the country, good independence with little change. look at the community to where i come from.
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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 did you thing about change if you withdrawal from the system is that exists now? how can you amplify the issues that matters? he mice, i think we need another tentative system that sense as people at the very call 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 caught up. it's, can we actively organize against the system together? i know that you both care about extrajudicial headings in kenya, around the world. they were conversations around police brutality,
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and that's at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extra traditional killings, the americans type in the hash tag blacklist martha? uh, i think it, it, it might the most in can because uh, personally i've looked 20 plus friends. most of them was killed by police and we'll just this and initially this is just specific on the vendor. so if you imagine how many happens each and 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 of how would you explain it. and now is i'm british colony. when we go to independence, the police service that was serving the colonial government did not change when it's done looking as i became president. ok now he continued with the same police
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force that the colonial government was using and therefore pressing on, that's their practices. and they told him of that would cost up on the people to present the chance, leaving and in for most instruments. and when judge floyd was killed by 10 year old, yes and miles killed in all communities. and when we planned the protest. so this last time i saw kenya's soul invested in calculating methods of, let's say you just put the names in the country. usually we will hold our demos, the name, foremost settlements. i think doug 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 and interests any additional candidates. so police offices of justified 72 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
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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. why do we have, let's say, is, if someone has been found doing something wrong, can we have a little before? 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 lot that can be followed. for me, the biggest issue has been the quality. they are not treating people the same. like we have been having news like a southern pass on let's go to uh, to commodity for the, for the government, the se in these governors on news,
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but they're 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, when 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 on dish. uh that was the case of calls in being in this like some people in government and stolen dealings made so many tickets. they fits of course names and in the country . and during this period, there was also um, a lot of formality in the communities. and actually the police did not as waste their coven dns despite having been a pro test it, is it people protesting against this score with the union? is that, well actually i raced it. so what that she's saying is there's a distinction between people who are stealing to survive. and people who are
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stealing from the people. because then governments told 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 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 or not to give in a find me to bring to visit with 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 personal scheme lending strong to you know, given a, find me so for this no invested there. so if i, if i guess is that people shouldn't be treated equally. that's what does this mean schools and 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
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my brother. but that is not possible. so injustice would look like preventing people from losing their loved ones. the only thing that would make sense for me sooner is, and we, i'm finding that physical needs needs to solve so can, is do not have to go 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 was 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 this case together with international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions we had and to show certain justice for my team call me and that enlightment when he was sentenced to life
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imprisonment. and that was the 1st day i saw 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 seems like it is really a lifeline here. 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 impossible and they have music because it's part of my life. last year we had the case a very beginning to end or we at a police was looking for a site and then the southern thief. when dining he, he went to his friends on some of the defense or not. if so the police ended up getting everybody under the desk. so it was all about stuff. it's like you're 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
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follow the ad and we've got new new police. and are there any other names of people or any other examples of cultural art or music the 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 the 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 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
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messages like the ones that you care about. most mostly i've been using social media as a sort of like a proof. and whenever you have so many dates 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 have a force. i knew it. 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 the 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 social media to tell 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 that kind of alternative history. and i wanted, if you could speak to me a little bit about why you've done that,
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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 closely 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. 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 systemic violence of social injustice this. so when we understand as young people where we are coming from, it will be very easy to,
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to create the kind of future we want to know for children's children and simon, any best 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 managed 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 interesting that the things that write the songs that they've done and all that as a final notes. 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 can see needs to do what you are doing?
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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 society. like one guy, as 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 left so that so let's look up every morning for me to tell kids which, which if i'm really and also for the future can
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