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say 5 houses were damaged and dozens of people evacuated from the area. rescue teams say the search for survivors is continuing of some one and a half 1000000 people in chad will stop receiving food. they didn't generate us because the wealth food program is running out of money. those affected include refugee is being funded, since it's on stuff for region, because hospitals out the border of chad and sudan in the town of andre, a humanitarian disaster is unfolding, says the united nations, half a 1000000 sued in these refugees, are living and make ships heads up hungry, hired, and didn't show images of the violence they have left behind circulating on social media, show men, women, and children buried alive in mass graves. signs of possible crimes against humanity committed in the dark for region as the conflict into down shows no sign event,
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the attack those 1st 3 days, it was intense. they went from joe to the wrong, they got demand, they took them out and kill them. they called the father of my children into the street, shut hayden, and killed him. they took everything away from us and i have nothing to take care of my children. we have no choice but to be in a chest more suit the needs have fled to chat in the past 6 months. then in the past 20 years, most are from the dark for region. they walk for days without food and water. according to the un 90 percent of the new arrival show signs of mound nutrition agency say they are overwhelmed and under funded the charges they have already showed whatever they could change the culture anymore. they even need assistance themselves. so now we need to, us has all those 600000 residues that came the retail news from child that were
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leaving there. but also now we also need to support the target into host population out of them that are also suffering like photos. so that needs definitely like the world food program says it has barely enough funding for the next 3 months. and yet chad is hosting more than 1000000 refugees. when is the largest and fastest growing populations in africa, or almost a decade after the violence in dar for once again, the un is warning of a spiraling catastrophe. the world cannot ignore nicholas hawk alger 0. me is, continues her and i'll just say are off to the stream while the inside will be here . and how often out with more of the days, top stories, savings, the a. we look at the world's top business stories from global markets to economies and
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a small business sales force and including security around the world. if there's something that the international community, your view should be doing to understand how it affects counting the cost on o g 0. what is ours is not the expression of one's most intimate dreams and desires a testament to the beauty and magical around. while at times, arts can be a means of survival, a tool resistance on these boards, and this is the street suite garment garden the be done. the
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throughout history arts has served as a form of resistance and palestinian artists, particularly in tune without concepts having used poetry, cartoons and music, to get their perspective beyond the walls, erected around them with israel's war on gauze, and many are applying their talents to demand and justice freedom and an immediate and the blood shed. among them are leila and jelly a graffiti artist currently based in your bid. jordan, i'm a painter jeanine. you're seeing who's joining us from dearborn, michigan. it's so nice to have you both on the show today. thank you for joining us, leila. i would like to start with use that's up to you majored in bio medical physics, but your super power i would say is actually talking through wall. so your murals are pretty exceptional. can i get you to introduce your work to our viewers in,
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in just a few words? they consider the, the image is with a 1000 words. and this is the main slogan that i am. and i think it's, what's your presents are. all i'm the janine, you also work with very strong image re, i'd like to have you do the same if you can introduce our work to our viewers with just a few words. i know your background is actually accounting and finance but, but that is not exactly reflected on on your paintings. yeah. so, um i can, i make sure that a lot of my are is based on storytelling and i use a lot of colors and symbols to ok trail that it's absolutely beautiful. i'm. i'd like to get need again to, to tell me a little bit more because you were born in a refugee camp in jordan. so would you say that that shape who you are as
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an artist as well? yes, so much library, strongly. i keep thinking about that question on most of the time. it's like a bubble at this world where you have a completely different univers, is a completely different universe that is reflected on your murals. would you say on, on your arts today? am i correct or mentally and then would it be your flex? yes. into my act as for example, being so responsible. it's this response. so we do that. i'm holding on my shoulder is what i checked. and today what i brought it from the counts actually from living there. you feel responsible. why? what people responsible for 1st, like having get that in today's means less. you have something so much different than the rest of the people. you are holding responsible responsibility toward that . second is being the oldest daughter and in memory like
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a small house where my 1st my parents was working to afford the living we. we lived in a very heart condition. so that's like made me hold more responsibilities done. was actually my, i should have this responsibility has a grown up shape. my director chips my this city. maybe dave mean, how much of your arts would you say is defined by palestine or by being college stand? um i would say i would say like maybe 80 percent. i think there's a smelly thing being caused. i mean is a huge part of my identity. but i, you know, i am also a community member or wherever i am. and i try to portray that as much as possible as well. i would like to ask you both to stay with us for
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a little while as we turned to other forms of expression for a bit, because both ours and resistance come in different shapes and forms. take a look at this very powerful piece of artwork by documentary filmmaker and skate border. my and i'm not 6 flips over occupation. the issue is headed into the head skate. be able to play in relation to get the kid. i shouldn't not be suddenly asleep. i just need to escape boarding is a positive to overcome the elements of the israeli military occupation. ok to kick
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flipping over occupation and the author of this work documentary filmmaker and skateboarder my and how that joins us now. my and thank you very much for being part of this conversation. there was so much about skateboarding that is just fun, but obviously as we see in your work there. so it's quite clear that is also a very powerful tool in terms of personal development. in terms of social cohesion, you describe it as a tool to create, resist in money, fast power. can you talk to us about that? yeah, thank you for having me to see forwarding is, uh, i think most people think of skateboarding this is a sort of sport or something that people do when they're quite young, but it actually very much has a culture embedded in it and a practice that is part and parcel to the streets that we occupied
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and i think part of that definition is to understand this reset. we skate for it in and to resist the powers and structures that those stories also project. and part of that is to empower a small community of people who are an artist basically. and what i like to call interpretive dance or is of the street. and by definition, that is one that resists the powers that be it's also about inhabiting the streets as well. right? is being, they're becoming more visible. i suppose, you're palestinian american, you were raised in the united states from the age of 2. you went back to the west banking in 2014, if i'm not mistaken. and please do correct me if i'm wrong. but what do you remember from those very 1st days of being back when palestine was no longer an
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idea in your head, but was actually streets and, and people a yeah. and so i went for a sense of the what was this supposed to be in arabic class at the state university . and in that same village, i ended up stumbling upon skateboarders. and for me, it was really shape shifting in that this, like i said, this culture of this, this community that i sort of grew up with in the us to have found it on happen chance basically in a, in a small village in university town in the west bank, i opened up my eyes to something much bigger. i think it connected me to palestine sort of immediately in a way that the story is food. folktales from my parents and, and literature from, from books was sort of unable to. and do you documented that trip put in
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a project called landing? was that also an attempt to, i don't know, show the world that being palestinian means a whole bunch of things. as i started by doing the video, documented called kits of so documentation and part of that project has not transitioned into a long term for the documentary project, which i wonder if we enough i i, i know how to use the camera because of skateboarding part of part of the state culture is to photographs and to document tricks and the different spaces that people are skateboarding in. and i had started sort of just with that intention and over the years has built up sort of enough of an archive to want to share to the world. a part of it is to do just that, to show that skateboarding impala sign is part and parcel to our unwavering relationship to our land. and a very important part of youth resistance,
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even if it's just within a small number of processing escape orders. that in and of itself is a testament to our pulse of freedom. a small number of policy is for now, because according to the voices in your don't, you've been through the all one more people to join them. i want to bring layla engineering back into the conversation and ask the 3 of you now. um, how difficult have the last few weeks been for you with the war on guys? uh, i mean, do you have family in calls? i do have friends there. how personal has this for been, janine if i can start with you? yeah, so i am from the list um, most of my family lives in nablus. i don't think i need to have relatives in jose to be directly impacted by what's going on. i think as palestinians, we are all connected despite you know, what are colonizers put borders?
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on and so i consider, you know, policy knows that to be, you know, my family and it's been extremely difficult on emotionally physically it can to help with that time means. but i'm also very inspired by the people who lives in the resilience. and honestly, they have them keeping me going. name a how, how about you, how has it been for you? oh it's, it's been really shocking so hard. but it was expected like as, as getting bones almost stating that this is not to new, but it is like, got more condense this time. i do have friends there and ask them that's what the situation is. something like we are very familiar to, to it because we have related to, we're living there before. so it's just very hard even to, to active, to become an active artist after watching all those,
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these horrible on perfect images that's coming from there. at the same time, it is a duty for me, for example, for being a police student myself. do this to the world to try to deliver it to, to be a voice for those who are voiceless for our case. so it's, it's be like a very hard share, i need to go through it. so this moment actually, because we still didn't have that you still haven't been able to contact the people to my and how about you have you have you been watching everything very closely and, and, and also feeling quite powerless, i guess. yeah. so i was in the occupying westbank for most of october, and i, i think even from home and no way you're still watching as if from a far. and it's unfortunate because it's not only heartbreaking. and in the scenes of ongoing genocide in your face be debilitating. and at the same time,
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like you said, it inevitably becomes personal because at the end of the day, palestinians are all connected, i think is really fragmentation tries to separate us. but we're all connected to palestine as it is, and as it was, and for example, i as a documented photographer, have loads of friends and dogs of that. i don't actually know in person, but i've been connected for multiple years and considered them close. and then many of my real friends, one of which was nice and us who was fairly killed by his earlier strikes in october. not documenting or not the sort of as a journalist, even though he is one but in his house, trying to help somebody else. and i think this is testament that no matter how far away you are from dodge of the, the impact of this is a destructive,
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ongoing, an organization of our people is something that will be felt no matter where we are . oh, janine elaina mentioned there the, the difficulty and how that has affected her for work. do you feel the same? do you feel as though it has paralyzed your creativity somehow or, or, i don't know, maybe the other way around. you feel more inspired to document this moment. i do feel a lot more inspired, i think because i have a duty here in the diaspora. so we got for folks, i've also been a really busy trying to organize around making sure the ceasefire does happen and kind of center the demands of those in the headset or because of the, you know, the, i am still like privilege and the sense that i'm not being bombarded i, i am very touched that you, you are all talking about this, this idea of being the voice for others. right? because there are voices in colorado right now being silenced,
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as you mentioned. like for example, that of poets and novelist. he bought a bu nazzo, whose last post on x actually red gauze as night is dark. apart from the glow of rockets quiet apart from the sound of arms terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the monstrous good night, garza or that was he but so good. a painter who defined her work as a message to the outside world. both these women were killed alongside their children and is really bombardments. i mean, later you mentioned this that the difficulty, but also the responsibility of carrying on of pushing your work and being the voice for these people. it's something we must do, like sure you get into up our lives in a situation where it's very, very shocked to for to this happening. you're expecting it, but it is expensive. that's to be that's uh,
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that's shuddering for the time. but then these images becomes something in our hired some mines, and then become an artwork square to be sure to the world until think ended, you might use these for you, perfect period. this time janine i, i know that your work or part of an exhibit it's of yours was removed from the royal ontario museum. can you tell us about why that was and, and what was your reaction? yeah, so um i was, i had uh, i was commissioned by the field museum in chicago to uh make it make a piece of art about the practice of muslim green burials. and in the art i thought it was really important. also convey how policies don't even have that privilege often to practice assignment green burials. so you know,
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um and it's not we clean our between the dead bodies, the rack them. we make fire for them and palestine. often our martyrs bodies are held hostages by design. this entity and they are not given, you know, to their families, to bury and in practice, our secret traditions, assorted, convey that in a small part of the painting and also think about those. and now how there are so many folks being bombarded and there's no time to practice. those traditions is also, you know, kind of what i was trying to convey not painting. and this exhibit as a traveling exhibit and it went to anterior and toronto and canada, me and the other contributors went to canada to sierra displays. and before we had went, we were just completely stunned. by the way, the rom, the real interior museum, was responding to us. they had attempted to censor our art and they wanted our
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consent to move where it's like palestine and desirable um, even implying that the messiah is like an issue. they want to, to edit that. they also want to censor my teaching in the lower the section that can said of the 1st time was that the 1st time they came across such a, such an attempt to sense through your work. not really, but it was the 1st time that and it was like, usually i get my art rejected or i'm told that it's too political and that's pretty much it because this is a traveling exhibit and they have already seen the material and accepted it is felt more violent the way that they were trying to, you know how they accepted it and not they're trying to censor it. so i want to the museum and we were expecting to see our stuff in display. but the, the stuff took us to the side and showed us some of the edits that they were trying to make. they completely cropped off my art, which was very, you know,
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this, i don't consent to say the least, the suspects violating they refused to meet with us. and the kind of like threatened us, you're either going to accept these changes by like in 45 minutes or we're going to pull your displays. they also said that i think we're going to pull our displays and they have to pull the jewish display like in principle. and obviously we're not going to accept those terms. some of the contributors, heather riley, outside the museum. and me and my colleague on send me to her some data, sit in overnight at the museum until they agree to display my art as is and then and they and they brought your work backs a. it's again, well done for, for, for fighting the good fight. to i wanna talk to you guys about the future as we're approaching the end of the show. um, now how do you see the future of your work and how internal links do you think the
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future is with the future of your people? because i have been great in the account. so i the police don't, i didn't to the as a fair for it. it's has been also born inside the account. if i didn't like reinforce, decided to do for the new generations. i would say that i have found that this is what i'm doing in my ad works basically is the highlights mattress. they say to highlight their existence because we support this really the new generations to keep them believing of these jobs because they are being disconnected. a little bit, we are the last generation for one task for or restaurants, actually this. so it's the new generation are in a danger of forgetting their on forgetting their origins. why and what about you? we talked about skateboarding being fun, how, how important is joy,
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right? now and in the years and decades to come as a form of resistance and resilience, it's incredibly important. i don't want to be not even though and i'll be frank. i haven't touched my skateboard since october 6. that's telling, i think skateboarding is a tool and one that can cos joy and disrupts a headspace of violence. but i think get a moment like now. so if violence is everything around you and in your imagination, sometimes it's hard to get around. that isn't to say that this holds forever and when and, and when say, pointing does become sort of top of mind again for me in other palestinian skaters, i know the immense power that it holds. uh huh. um, as we build a taishan and then also as this medium to freedom, i think our engagement with the land and space physically writing our skateboards
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in a place like palestine hold this on wavering relationship that i think is often times beyond words and gets translated in our creative spaces, it gets correct, translated in our communities, it gets translated in how and wherever we show up for one another. and this beautiful part of skateboarding is something that publish thing and skaters also manifest together, which i know is, and during all i, i want to give you the 3 of you, a chance for a final thoughts here and, and maybe if it's not asking too much i'd like you to send a message if you have a message. i don't know if it's to the world through your friends and family in calls or in palestine. any message that you might have right now in just a few words. * and i would like to start with you,
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i want to think everybody around the world who is showing up for palestine, i think as much as we are surrounded by the politics of death and violence. i've never in my life seen so much international, an intersection of the deputy with our cause and one that i hope we can also reflect back when it's needed because i believe that our freedom is tied to so many others. and i hope that one day we will all be free. oh janine, in joseph, your words, your message as much as i am increasing in mourning for all those the home in the lice knows that i have been taken away from us. and i also am, i'm sleep proud of my people's resilience during these times. and you know, design is empty, things that were just numbers, but i, i value each each life. and i think about the people who knows the every day. and i
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hope that we can continue standing off for the folks in less than centering their demands. and doing so, lena, your thoughts? i just need to give you the working course more because i felt them feel a bit cold or simply because we have less contact, for example, to the north. and so people are getting back to their normal lives like nothing has happened. but no, i need to be able to keep on resisting and they're on form of resistance to keep their voices on our voice as those really matters because it's getting concerned on being shot everywhere by the social media. we are talking about their propaganda now. so we need to keep our existing id. i'm very thankful for your voice is here today. thank you very much. and i would also like to take a moment to think a number of ours has to be contacted and who wants it to be part of this episode from occupied east jerusalem and the occupied westbank. but who felt like they could not be part of this conversation. and speak about their arts for fears of
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being reprimanded or worse. finally, i also want to thank you for watching. if you have a comment about our show, you can talk to us on social media. and if you have a, a conversation or a topic that you like to see on the show, we're always open to your suggestions. you can use the hash tag or the handle a stream, and we'll look into it. take care. and i'll see you soon. i as the we are on guns, the continues, we bring you the latest reactions and global out. we have come to appeal to governments. wait, wait and goes done. besides that, the palestinians are brothers. once honest, it's a shame. what's happening to the pen, assuming people, and that some european governments are even supporting that we citizens and mobilized so that at least there's a ceasefire. it's not just about this latest wearable violence. this has been going
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