tv Generation Change Kenya Al Jazeera August 5, 2023 2:30am-3:01am AST
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tore down barricades and blocked the traffic. local media, say several people have been taken into custody. the south is here and these are the top stores. now, this is qu, they just have until sunday to see power and return sicilian route, according to a deadline and set my west african nations. the visions defense chase of joint efforts on for possible military intervention as much as general's dent, reinstate the democratic elected president. mohammed was in the russian position. these like site and the founding has been sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on charges of extremism. if only is a critic of president putin and his campaigns against corruption and the crime, and since the 2011, the support is in human rights campaign is according to persecution. a saudi arabia
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with more than 1400000 people. india as now, that was most populous country. millions of young people across the country are unemployed and unable to imagine a meaningful future. the students will take any job they can find. but getting a job seems like a distance education alone isn't enough to solve the hardest other demographic challenges. authorities are struggling to persuade couples to use contraceptives. many women only all for satellite sation, of to having large properties on zillow, begum and her husband trying to have 10 daughters and one son. none of the children have been educated beyond 5th grade. the races on the demographic, dishonest of how the country fast will determine the lives of future generations.
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the east african largest economy, kenya is an african tower house and home to a $1000000000.00 but with 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high use on 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 countries capital library. be from fighting to social justice to come back and can be cited. they both just wants to empower their communities and make some space that welcome to generation change a global series attempts to understand and talents. the idea is that maybe lies around the world.
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the so it's sunday. i'm going ahead and stretches from here in times, or which is where you're from, right? that's. and this is an important estimate, but it will say the country's largest dental site. what was it like for you growing up there? so one of the challenges the getting initially made my buddies are no, we find those that time smart enough for us to pay rent and food indication. that's when my my job was sick because she was in gauge getting in trouble. i'm just because of the stress and all that time. so in each of the end of the dining room that let's go for when what was left of the invoice. however, you and your mother passed away, i was 16. and what happened then? so i ended up going with the don't say to make it for 4000000 t 8. it's
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a place where when comes and it wouldn't even doesn't have a place to who was covered in genes we'll collecting such so, so that they can on that i get something now you're right there. and that's the, what was the transition like from, you know, being on that i'm tired, working that to being an artist and doing what you do now. so windows have been done. say those us troops up. so even people are calling me that's, that's the new companies that up for us, or they gave me some of that and april 4th. so i notified distance williams. i think he was very popular. what's going on with that and obviously getting the place to send people to them need to find the stop this to be set up, but we need to find that need to find that. okay, so the team that would be found to be under the transition was that tried to natalie came up with the appropriate for the extensive tests or the transition. so maybe they've done since that in getting on the bus and know how much see
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the, how did working on it on site. and it says eyes whenever they don't say to feel like you are popular during the place where people don't appreciate to don't have a voice the nobody cares that much fully. well. so initially for me it was like, i mean i want the way, i'm facing a lot of stuff sort of vices 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 performing their buds video in the mornings, you find them my desk. yeah. so i was seeing them as the, as the reload in the
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front of the car to a theater. he's because the country goes, so i wanted to talk to you about your lyrics. you've done prior to something about extrinsic additional cleanings and the police know who can and people who live had lost 3 friends. our in our center done the site because of its security. some kidding. they was beaten after the stronger fun. i was so much there was, i was hungry and so that's where i i, i started becoming moving to 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 in or you, when, and there's also an organization called the kenya, which you work in and you do these projects with young people. can you tell me that that what you do with them? okay, so of course the community based organization that works with kids from the age of 5 to 17, to ensure that they're safe and easy so that they don't stand that day society
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special vices. he's coming to lead to music gloves. this drama class, this point, see, we play games, the kids forget the be of the money screwed into find over $100.00 plus the new talents. of course the and someone is he does being more possibly than even any of that to be the going to right. you chris, on did them. it's our social justice center, which aims at tactical forms a structural vine. and can you explain a bit about what made you want to start the organization? i was born in my body and then grew up in my address for the 2nd biggest. i mean, okay, now i love my that it, you know, i was a, have a title. and when i became an adult is when i could see now the
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violence, i think people in my community love 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 like growing up in a village, but everybody knows everybody. so when something happens to one of us really seen it. so the killings in particular too much. it was this too much. so the challenge that we formed, but that is social justice center. and were there any past experiences that you live in? sorry, that made you want to stop the organization? yes. um, my own brother was killed by a police in to a 7 to void for selection violence in kenya. and that with a lot of other young people that i am grown up sweet being killed. and this is not just my story and, and this is a story of many young people in my day do a to have
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a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police. the winter when no, i was fired them. it's our research assistance. i can you tell me a bit about the why fi g day today? it every day receive cases from the community on difference of it is that to be a lucky one to bring justice to the community members must notice these cases of what it is. mortality of people who have been arrested with not enough reason because of the end of this violence. but we have a community engagement, like watching film planting, trees, community cleanup community have been on stations. and every time we meet a, this sensor, we have to sing because the southern
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energy that comes when we things together and to just i just on to continue watching this class of speaking justice and dignity for our 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 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 community a small and bolted to sign up for themselves. it made them feel more powerful.
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i also have to say that at that very moment, it is 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 was still the so 10 dash, thank you so much for being here today. when we think about the issues of face and 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
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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 one uh form of existence from the people from the $8000000.00 tenants who did not come out 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 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 that 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 a previously there. one, not even doing a lot of the people get they would just, uh, making the 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
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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. the fullest. i 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 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 piece pull at the very call of the issues we have trying to address how we need to bring about changes,
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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 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, 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 this specific one of the dental. so if you imagine
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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 he'd been looking, as i became president of getting that, he continued with the same police 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 him in for most instruments. and when judge floyd was killed, 13 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
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methods of it. so you do show things 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 most indeed large numbers to say we demand an interests any additional documents. 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 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, 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 jury. and they've victor shawna because this is
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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 law 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, a, sat in 5. so let's go to, uh, to commodity for the, for the government to the se in these governors on news, 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
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. 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 stealing from the people. because then governments told from the poor in that particular incent which led them to lingering is 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 given
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a find me to bring to visit with the police to conduct a fundraising. so as can get funds to the body of it anyways, why don't you have in good justice because that personal scheme that need 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 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 sooner is and we, i'm fighting that physically needs to solve. so kenyans 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,
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police kennings if and 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 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 fear. 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
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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. 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 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
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a protest singing that song made them feel full possible. and nina, hassle of felt the like headlight side more relevance, we should see to advance the struggle of last people what she was saying about then it's 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 messages like the ones you care about? most. mostly i've been using social media as well as sort of like a proof. and whenever you have so strongly that 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 have a force, a 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
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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, i love history. i think history is very liberating. when you get to see me know and understand. i think present a 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 now. so we've had presidents from 91063 who have done
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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 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 managed to, to both of our 1010000 kids have identified the new talents among the successful
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stories that they have is that about 50 young guys do not end up being and dropping out 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're doing? well, i guess my going is knowing that i'm on the right 5 and i'm doing my little thing towards contributing to the betterment of 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,
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i'm not even paid or anything is just because i need to see a good future. i need to see a bit and under, 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 really and also for the future, can the,
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