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typically and soccer and i was, i saw this firsthand, i play professionally, that weren't able to be a full time professional athlete, which is blast to me compared to on demand side. when you look at just the resources, the opportunities, the overall balance on and off the field. so now we're seeing more and more teams players that are providing the necessary everything from waiting rooms to stay beyond the training to, to of course i'd be solved with the world called the overall experience of being a to full time professional athlete. but you now can play the sports you love provide for your family and mother you're in season or adults even be a full time year round soccer player. the so this is all just there are these on the top stories, at least one woman has been killed and another wounded and a shooting attack that happens if a city of hyper on in the occupied westbank is really media sites. several palestinian suspects opened fire at a policy vehicle. hire a full service move from west through slim. that was the one fatality in this
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attack and his really woman. in her forties, according to media reports, emergency services attended at the scene where she and difficult of mine were near the vehicle, unconscious, suffering from gunshot wounds. she was late to pronounce that at the same demand taken to a nearby medical center, also reports that there was a 6 year old go in the car at the same time. all of this taking place on route 60 the main author really north south through the occupied west bank, near the southern city of hebron and the president of guatemala is bernardo of a below the importance of the anti trust. and congressman celebrated his landslide victory also between former 1st lady, 1st lady sonya torres in the runoff election. and voters in ecuador will head to the poles in october for a presidential run of left wing candidates, louisa gonzalez. and the surprise challenger daniel novilla feet and 6 of the
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user calls on a website out, is there a dot com, but stay chewed generation change is coming right out. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. is the human suffering definitely reports on pre brave bullets and bombs. and we always include the views from all sides. welcome to generation change a global series that, that sense understand and challenge the ideas that are mobilizing use around the world. i'm going to stuff one, an independent journalist faced 11 on where jen z, campaigners are fighting for radical change. the challenges they face couldn't be more is on thing. it's a nomic collapse for the 2nd stain made social unrest, and the devastation caused by august 2020 exclusion here. and they
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episode, we need 2 young people using their skills to combat decades of corruption and fix ariana safety assault on reset. the only way for right the stadium. can you tell me a little bit about your childhood and they were there any specific moments or events that saved your political activism? the early part of my childhood was not to be influenced by politics, but as i get older gradually i get interested in these my number, however, also important most of the ideas and concepts that were created by the user name
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plus in terms of the secondary and one of the agents and the crisis. so at the end of the day, we're all as far as the products of the societies and the dinner i usually use in soon by the regime. but then i got to expose the various other ideas move into groups. is that the try to deliver an alternative vision for what the country may be as opposed to what i learned it to be as a child? why do you think that dyslexia club is important and willis have some kind of effect outside the scope of the news universities. the secondary level started as a socio cultural space for students to know more about politics and the various developments happening as soon as the social world. and this will have to have even only interest which has to be protected, whether it's a needing on addition,
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that's as i guess the administration to protect students freedom or needing long tuition strikes, which protects the students, right. and so is a 19, it was basically the youth student component of the, of the 17 uprising. but it's also transformed into a force which is able to impose a certain discourse under the minis landscape. are you optimistic that the network will emerge as a political movement and 11 on so the way i see them other than for example, if you can move the 20000 expensive social base. and then it has thinking the aggressive stuff, instruction it does thinking the, the idea that there should be creating a comprehension on each other's, most like very important initials based on the various other forces which are for up to the spaces. and that's our way forward and i think that's what makes it look
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like a move as that you will for this generation that was born and peace sign, but in 2006, this changed for you. yeah. can you send me a little bit about dots, o, as in love, a non during the 2006 for a during the summer. i was impressed to physically, but also i took it in and i understood even when i was 12, that's negative impact public opinion. but it was really during the 2014 does or when i was interesting as a major news organization because i understood the weight and the importance of accountability journalism, an independent journalism. so that towards the road decides look in my career that went on with a series of protests and the past years from 2011,
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2015 and then the big 2019 process. what was the role of the need? yes, 11 on the means are owned by parts is in groups and political parties, which are the political casts, adults, people, and the protest movement throws up against the hearts of corruption or any of that or is which are the main thing means. yeah, this information is the illustration of corruption in there. so the ideas so it's really important for me to focus on the media narrative and also counselor to investigate support. so was the independence, be the organization i worked for and i took on the daily news reports and covering the violations. i think for testers, the process were happening all over the country that were me to black out. so we were the ones who said lights on what's, what's going on, and the way that's most means it means to me, do this has
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been any, please, and thoughts on journalists. and i'll need to work because is freedom of speech and danger, and 11 on in your opinion. i think freedom of speech right now is going through a specific kind of challenge because of social media and the government's use of social media to intimidate a people interest of censorship. we need to speak against that. whether or not the intimidation. is there a nice think a lot of independence needs at work cuz understand the stress and they understand that now is the time to continue with the accountability. journalism continues. we have open source investigations in order to uncover the start to scroll into the sensitive config. as the thank you so much for being with us here today. your generation did not
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really witness the civil war in lebanon. however, everyone has since cards in the country, maybe through our parents or through stories that were here. now i want to start with you, okay. and how did this change your political activism in the country? now, although we that experienced the civil war, we were taught or inherited the narrative about no secondary inclinations, even in forms of heroism. you know, the people that we were supposed to think of very highly at the end of the day. we also formulated the accountant narrative. the idea that if you're trying something just move on and try and something this like there and conversations which exist alongside of it. and this is something we're fancy working on. and what about to us? so i also have a kind of unique upbringing as my parents are both from sexier background. so i had this and go, that's i, uh, got from my parents why understanding the trauma that they lived through during the civil war since it's an inheritance, intergenerational trauma. and uh,
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one thing never has this happen again. so this was basically my view point going into politics going into actors and going into journalism as well. so, is your generation more radicals getting more uncompromising in a way? we were thoughts for a long way than living on that business, the country? these are the relationships that exist between the readings to us and the people between the people themselves, between the various political factions which exist in the country. and we're suggesting that there's nothing static about 7 or 7 on there's always in the dynamics transformation and the right here, you know, experiencing another dynamics estimation which got about after october 17, which came about after the oldest for exclusion. we new thing that we have the agency to create the volume and alternative as a what are the ways in which you can implement such change in your opinion? i think the trainer in the lots, from what's happening around us since the so called error spring in what people are
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h, as when we're able to achieve not only in 2011, but also in 2019 with us across a rack and video to don. and elsewhere, and we learn from each other about tactics and futures and his cities the to want to work together towards getting your, the chair of the political and working group of the met done network which connect secondary clubs across universities and 11 on can by the transform the student activism into a nationwide political movements and your opinion, when i think was ordered or under the case in the sense that uh the network is established. and within $12.00 to $13.00 universities, this suggests that there is for tension, for genuine competition between secondary progressive components and the many societies against more secondary and reactionary components which have existed historically. the 2nd, their thumbs are in the network,
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but not only calling for secretaries, and they're also calling for a live there from this package. it also deals with social justice, more democratic inclusion, ideas pertaining to an incomplete memory than from nora's which of this story their society. and so we're not an distant ideological group. we are part of the society or a speaking to them with their basic needs. how can you actually convince people who might be even older than this generation to vote outside the school of their sex? when you have 18 sex and 11 on when you have political parties that are based on their sex and that's are not based on marriage or even the politics. the problem was start getting such a question is that we need to talk a switch which is client and isn't from someone votes for political sex. they're also voting for the ability to get them. 4 to be able to get to get in a school and to be able to get social welfare and all of these things that are tied to 6th period political parties. so really thinking about getting people to
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go to outside of their success and gloria to we need to also be cognizant. that's we are telling them to make themselves vulnerable to reality without the associated protections and the parents good protections of a mainstream political party with us with them. so this opposition was men should have a certain i turn, it says and realistic solutions to the 6 there in times in a sick system that has been in greens, in every institution and as the parts and parts of our life. so what you're saying basically, is that non sectarian opposition groups need to compete with these long last thing . political parties, by proving that, this is not the way. so actually, i mean, this is a very interesting phenomenon. this happens after august for and they don't blast people came together from a pro 7 non and forms of networks of solidarity and finance and
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collaborative. uh, some of their networks don't mimic the same story, terry and trying to mystic structure as the 1st or used to getting the government would say that they are attempting to talk and corruption 11 on was establishing and onto corruption comment t and and you law, tackling corruption in the country, what's your opinion on that in the middle, and particularly the term corruption is basically a potentially, i mean, particularly when it's empty corruption. because the issue and limit on the was not just corruption in the sense that you know, we have some interest being distributed within states, texas. it's a very structured stomach issue. we have and has been amplified since the ninety's . we have a run based economy that's completely based on monopolies, the banking sector, plus the real estate site. there. we have a sectarian system which compete and distribute on ministry is all of us for years
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that have come across after the war. we have enlarged that we have a lot of the social and economic inequality. no productive sexes, which produce anything. and they were simply living the remnants of an extremely me with a be with an unfair economy. so people that are saying we want to fix corruption, but don't even want to find that at the interest of the only guarantee and the banks, then we can't really trust whether they're actually fighting corruption. so as long as this is at stake, there is no such thing as anti corruption. as i saw on august, 4th, 2020 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded and bade or causing damage to the whole city . can you tell me what happened on that day? so i was in the office, i had to work call in the middle of it and then 6, so 8 happens. and then i felt a tremor that took me back and forth and i hadn't realized what had happened. but i heard the noise of a huge explosion, and i saw that everything was destroyed around us. our colleagues were really close
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to the windows and who were trying to figure out if anyone was injured. and because my parts of my office were right beside each other, and i could see complete destruction of my apartment. because this was an office for an independent seem to organization some of our videographers. so the 3rd year and they went down to film, the carnage. it was a complete massacre. it was a something that's i think, no one wants to know if to again, forever. what about to cutting ones? i heard the explosion and i felt that everything was shaking. the 1st thoughts that came to mind is a, this is it. i also was qualified to know the position i was in because i felt maybe the building could collapse at any moment. so it was extreme on certainty. about the next 30 minutes after i was out and took my car, i noticed that people are injured everywhere. so it was
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a huge catastrophic moment in which every thing norman, in our lives was host. how's that you mentioned that you were in an office working with an independent media organization. did you manage after that to resume your work direct piece? i think what fueled us to continue and to actually double down on our reporting and on our coverage was our anger towards whatever happened and whoever were responsible. so this could be seen with our investigations, with our daily news coverage and trying to piece together what's happened. why was there a fire? what's blue before that? i'm on united states. where was it exactly and which warehouse was able to look at? ok. this video was taken on the roof of this building, and this time, this enables me to actually piece together something so that i can know what's
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happened because the anxiety of not knowing was worse than the inside. see us. what happens after $16000000000.00 is the number estimated when we talk about the damages, that's what caused by this explosion. there are so many legs. i accusations that corruption reached aids where this corruption ends cutting the 8 is that's the name of the answer to corruption because feeding this regime with more funds, particularly by the international community. we're the only need to, it's your production and safe go. i think it's own bases distribution isn't us, is in the hundreds of thousands of people from various social groups and 9 rows and 6. so many of them they mobilize and it creates a different system. so, so the diversity, this goods potentially creates an advocate the resistance of the origin. but there
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is no certainty insights, but there is always hol, can i just jump in here? when i look up for i understand corruption, it doesn't just american institution and governments and perspective, but if there's corruption, one place that's probably tied to corruption elsewhere. when megaphone use the an investigation about the origins of the ship that brought the ammonium nitrate to the basement. sports, they were tied to syrian russian firms with addresses in london. so corruption is the bill. been nice things when we want to understand and to fights, corruption, we need to think about it as a system of solidarity that is bored during this, at the same time, and collaborates with independence needs organizations just like the panama papers have done to uncover money laundering scandals across the world. i think there's
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only really important what she said, but there's also something at the emphasize on based on this, that ebony is regime is tied to international and global interest which sustain it . now that is something to critique, but it's also something to look at and slightly so be inspired from that. if we do break these things or if we do create alternative things across the borders, that gods multiply the strength of our movements. and potentially we could benefit from an alternative, international and network of people who are thinking this way. and that's how we can create alternative power in the country and ultimately replace the car and the receiving site. i mean, could you just looking at the process, started tactics from the 20 october 2019 protest movements. we learned from hong kong we learned from turkey. we learned from some done. and then again in may 2021 . the george floyd process started uber,
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news activist helps or creative guides for the black lives matter. actors in minnesota in order to a house um, in terms of just a secure proceed help with tear gas. so this sunny day doesn't just transcend our fight against corruption, but also our sites are gains up to it. i'm sorry, it's area and regina and oppressors. one of the so many challenges of this country is facing is integration or brain drain. many of the young generation are leaving for good. i mean, you mentioned that you're a part of the methyl network, which is connecting different secular clouds. but the protests are kind of on hold right now. how do you motivate people and how to revise these events and the streets? not many people have the luxury to go out. a lot of people are stuck here in this sense and they have no choice but decided back for these after the august 4 explosion. when the police and the ok button, which is where they were saying,
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you know, this makes some calculations and see if we can afford this or then they just went. sometimes we assume that if people mean rates, then they don't have their own. but this is a huge side of the funds the libby needs receive benefits from the but as far as the benefits from the side that we're gonna export everyone and then they'll give us the money so we can sustain ourselves. the opposition has a reality. the reality is that people are outside. how can they benefit us? well, most of organizations and i can and i can, the mechanisms are becoming online as best as movements. so people can think parts and meetings and sharing ideas and talking to people and getting heaps of people to vote. so that's all about raising alternative networks by using the highest score that was exported by the regime itself. but also came, i think, as opposition groups or as students or union organizers, we need to learn to the concise, our hope for the future, which we saw on the streets in the beginning of the 17,
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october's 2019 protest movements. people were coming together and dancing cooking together, singing together, reading sings with each other. these are in form of systems, of relationships and trains that's had never been seen in at least downtown battled on certain before and stuff. the civil war as that we do know how media is one of the allies and 11 on how it's tied to private businesses to politicians. how can you change that? so 1st i think we need to recognize that 12 point to confirming you own, at least half us, the mainstream media and 11 on the other half is either owned by businessman, by individuals, politically affinity is owned by specific political parties. so the controlling over one, the media, but 2 and most important to this course and the sources of information is square and in the hands of those and powers. but independence means it organizations have
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found ways, mobilizing the just florida and becoming important sources of information from the ground since they are the only ones that from from the ground. from the point of view of the protesters from your point of view of the oppressed. but again, the independence media needs to work together with a grassroots movement width of, of sites, organizations to bring together all these things in order to have a sustainable future. when you talk about all of these hopes and dreams, there's a certain component that's we need to talk about and that is challenging. is secular states has been the as a dominant political shades far to 11 on. now some argue that they are states with an estate. how do you bid the secular government with the presence of such devices? but i don't think it's even possible to look for genuine the rather because we're forming the country with the states. but in this state like has about the,
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which is not just a party said distribution. it's an infrastructure of the state of the selves that box the base and other conflicts in the region. and it also tokenize is on there is because now the question remains, how do we resist this? and i knew also have an issue with those who proclaimed to fight against his bow when in fact they only talked to him sensible of, from their own 6 area in point of view, but was never april aggressive starting point. and that's something that's extremely necessary. they want to go a step forward, but isn't that challenging because has been less as that they are present to defend been, have been used for. there is the only way to tack is such a permit and mistake, as well as to recreate a new nurse. it does not mean we have to concede, has well, at all. in fact, that's a big mistake. many opposition parties are doing. we need to continue creating this
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account a 100 melanie from a starting point, which is secular. progressive an insularity with all of those oppressed by as well, and by not as well. yeah. so is there a space for us to move them in a country so complex like 11 on that's the weights for the 2022 elections for some kind of change. there's never pessimism or optimism. there is a complex reality as you said. and this complexity in of itself gives us hope because what's happening this year may not happen 3 years later. but the 2022 elections cannot be seen as a break, so it can only be seen as of 2 or however many other breakthroughs a wait. because at the end of the day, so i'm just heading it in october 29. 2019 was not taken out and the action was
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taken out by the streets and the streets could to reinvent themselves as does that mean these really? so i agree completely with cream and saying that elections is a 2. no, it's not a means to an end. i think organizing. so send the kids to clubs to students unions and across identities and security and loyalties is really important. so are you going to be the generation that's find a solution for this ongoing crisis and level. i'd also said to the ultimate responsibility for a generation because i think our parents don't, they wouldn't be that generation i fingerprints, but that would be that generation. so maybe, well, listen, i actually think there is no such thing as this. you know, one time change in the country level and 200 years ago was different 11 on today. and socially move has always existed and pressure and in
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a certain direction. so i think interesting the ration made this contribution, and we're here to make our modest contribution and to see what comes ahead of us. that's it's for this episode of generation change comes up and on katie mazda, thank you so much for taking part. it's been a very enlightening conversation. thank you. thank sooner it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but it's great. this arrival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds from a class device sustained over generations. most smoking junior support his opponents of news clip colors in an epic few to rich business put the funds will
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make football one, which is the or the other there on the clock. this is a nice life coming up in the next 60 minutes. the woodland has been killed and the shooting the occupied westbank is ready for his vote to search for assessment.
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