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how does this happen and what you do to prevent it tomorrow to. 60 minutes. we've got some tips for your bucket list. corner. for some. and some great cultural memorials to boot. trouble for good. it's very important that we build solidarity beyond the borders. i hope will remain to be able to seem. a. little different and when we come together there's nothing we can not change.
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their rebellious smart and they use the arts to do cry injustice they fight against sexual violence and for equal rights to mark international women's day our correspondents represent women who've impress them with their courage and creativity. in sometimes. telling. berlin and nairobi but 1st to turkey. hi from istanbul this is a handy w's correspondent in tel aviv and i would like you to get to know a musician who is rebelling against the ordinary with her unique sound and her outspoken is on women's rights issues here in the. now meet turkey's psychedelic
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rock star gaius watches. a mini bus ride through a parallel universe and a woman who actual is in the driver's seat. she loves to bring together traditions and modernity that sounds she revived psychedelic rock a sound that was lost truly popular in turkey in the 1970 s. . guy who lives in patty curry on the asian side of istanbul. it's a district known for its many bars and clubs at least when there is no pandemic. this is where she grew up. some of them most of my childhood memories are about
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music and when i dreamt about my future the music was always there. today the 36 year old writes composes and co produces most of her songs herself. the fans love the unique mix of turkish music rock and post-punk. and many search gaius abstract lyrics for messages about the situation in turkey. the whole country is a shisha cafe and with suffocating in its smoke she sings in bottom is that tosh. that us all and used it's really become more and more difficult to breathe in this
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country because there's a lack of justice and rule of law leave. that is deeply wounded the society. i feel very injured to. it's time for us to stand up for and support each other here in turkey and elsewhere in the world the. guy is most concerned about the situation of women in turkey rights groups warn that domestic violence is on the rise and that the number of women murdered has dramatically increased in recent years. activists regularly organize protests over the turkish government bans most of them but dahlia is proud that women still dare to be loud and demand their rights. to give the code. when we talk about women in turkey the word oppression automatically comes to mind . it's an uphill battle for every woman who wants to live according to her own
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ideas. but we won't be afraid we will stick together draw attention to ourselves and organize organize all our lord. for the sands guy is a role model in terms of self-determination and when it comes to speaking one's mind. to say i don't ask for anyone's permission i am who i always wanted to be she sings on her latest record the song is called it's young money festool saw rebellion money festival. and guy you can't wait to play her music life again after the pandemic in one of the clubs in her home city. music hall so if my music where city it would definitely be istanbul the city has many sounds and forces it's a melting pot where everyone and everything comes together. so i really like to be
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compared to the city. he. beat. him in. i'm a retard she muddied obvious correspondent and demi using comics and graphic knowledge of school impoundment that's what he thought meryl tried dogs challenging convention forms of patriarchy let's meet this remarkable visual artist who's breaking barriers in india. but if you think we if we mean us those often stock quotes that show almost obscene being all peak and the inferior list of imagining what we can be i think there's
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a lot of conversations that need to be had and are being are going to spend gee they still can be in the woods so we expect beach and o'grady to make good social structure. if you're on call to the city you need to be able or if you look at your big piece of the t.v. we'll be able to stick you with our continuously having to type in safety requires we're going to talk to. you tomorrow to see is working with allows the 2 best expresses ideas and her perspective on life. she's inspired by feminist leaders and people's movements this is reflected in her drawings and the issues on which she's chosen to focus. it does have to challenge gender stereotypes and attempts to stifle her voice even
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at school. after court t.v. read what these late professors who can who feel that you really you show you down in this stock down to you and forgave dealing with asthma and on camera saying all these issues that are happening that you know everybody wants to student was added 65 you're going to have physically being afraid of our port is just insane. but in early twenty's either i was captivated bit something entirely new what she called the magic of bringing text and images together to create powerful narratives like this book on an eco feminist who led a movement against the forestation in india backing off if you were a city though being part of the story is something that i don't want to produce was this shit stain or you know are taking i wanted to be a conversation. and that's who if we're to do.
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good comics and graphic man didn't eat that engages with women from marginalized communities she's traveled to remote regions to day she saw the transformative potential of art. before sanity said no no it's the have who live. in speedy sing for all faculty of the ministers in their communities to see if they can create life there we be one. over there to see you know you need to you can experience for your and your dreams are just to do that is a full stage or is really really important i feel to be able to have that chance to go on and think this through e.c. that we can together look at what it means to taint off assets is as is obscene markets as people who are defying are addicted he's lost it it was drawn to
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a mass movement led by been in delhi. the shaheen bank sit in protest at a major public highway was against the government citizenship amendment act critics said the legislation was discriminatory against muslims. it was absolutely unbelievable to be on a public high read blocking that species of having really speaks so strong be up on his deeds and so clearly of all who are democratic they are and what citizenship meet the only reference i could express what they're hearing through and drawing i would then come back to my studio and me close disposed of both in hindi and english. posters and drawings on this piece where protests have now been compiled into a book. a powerful graphic narrative of women at the forefront of a mass movement. at the same time we see what the government of the
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state is doing to young women who speak out behind our voice to say so within these 2 kind of context so we mean being at the forefront of people's movement and of a state that's kind of catching one big scene it's taking any. it is a moment that i would think we can't even me or believes what we want. to. believe. this is a fear about a bad day w.'s correspondent in chief i'm going to present to a group of women that dances mosques in the streets outside jabil to raise awareness of gender violence and the power goes of women to fight for their rights meet the demands collected by look up what to buy and find
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a company should buy less of a house in the new dogs but international women's day. over 50 women have turned up including dominate. easy for me the collective and dancing as part of a collective means liberation enjoyment pleasure friendship this is a space where i feel safe and i can be myself the name of the dons group is linked to the headgear so women fast dotted wearing balaclavas in hoods during demonstrations both to protect themselves from police tear gas and to ensure they want recognised they became a symbol a. unique. event is one of the 4 women who founded by live by love and i but 2019 during a wave of protests against social inequality in chile make it easier for you say
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anywhere don't want to conceal their identity and it over them but we do want to protect it because there is a lot of political persecution in chile long predates the uprising and we wanted to form a collective and to present a common front that. when i protest i am not one only the kind of a collective. it is the 1st time since the start of the fundament on the related restrictions that they have matched her house like this we are a feminist dance collective in the us we want to make art less a leader to bring down to the streets and to show that our body is our 1st territory of struggle we're not dancing for others but for ourselves but our choreography is always based on urban down styles such as dancehall work and hip hop last year on international women's day $300.00 members of the collective dance on the street so sometimes i'll go wherever and read but like lovers $2000000.00
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people in total protested nationwide social inequality sparked an uprising against chile's neo liberal economic and social system in october 2019 it was feminist from the start of. the walls of santiago tell the story of the protests of the struggle against patriarchy and machismo. the don's collective members want to draw attention to violence against women and that performances. religiously to me just as soon as i leave my home i'm exposed to harassment every there's abuse during childbirth there are always forms of violence against women. at work in the health care system the family it's never ending. but i want to believe that it will be eradicated but it's a long process. we are in the middle of
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a paradigm shift from your assumed we. keep this collective is about so much more than don's it's about solidarity i mutual empowerment many say that the group dancing on the protests have changed their lives. and beyond the if we need more we're learning from feminism in the learning to love each other when you know not to compete against one another but to actually create a nucleus where we can express ourselves dominic says she has learned to accept her body through dancing in the group. even ranging. even in the. mean look i conceal that i've changed my way of showing myself to the world to my environment and to myself. on international women's day like a bridge of my level one small be done sitting in the heart of santiago.
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i'm sure that can money coming to you from kenya's capital nairobi and despite the fact that the person we're about to meet was not actually born here she does thrive in creative institutes such as. the one that we're standing next to but it's actually a literature that she hopes will be able to cut across boundaries reaching young girls across the continent and challenging young women such as i self. one of the pins that really gets my goat. when i get referred to. black africa right there i'm like how why must i have what you call it where
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i just i want to be a good writer. who keeps well vanner knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it the south african arthur was born in zambia and then studied and lived abroad for a long time today she lives in kenya and is a publisher editor and writer and children's after that during the pandemic she has become the curator of a pan-african on line literature festival combining well known names with new talent she wonders between worlds with boundless energy. the books she writes are always political in her 1st novel the madams which was published in 2006 she describes the lives of middle class women in south africa who are appalled between tradition and modernity between a career and being the perfect african mother. i am essentially prall.
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who very pro are for a very pro women and i think generally comes out in my books what those 3 all have in common with about identity. i'm writing for readers but more importantly i'm writing for people will say oh reading is boring you know if there are i've got a book for you finish once i finish one period and told me that's boring her novels always carry a message she writes literature with that added to. this one of them is particularly committed to young readers and writers are on my generation to be the last generation of writers you know i always to myself to be able to hold on and bring younger generation of writers and give them voice and give them the platform in her writings the piece work than are uses all of the linguistic richness of the continent including street slang and different dialects. my readers
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should be able to understand the context you know if they don't get the context then it means i have failed it's not that the language has failed i have failed as a writer. is a piece for valinor is active on the international circuit in 2019 she was invited by the good institute to speak at the frankfurt book fair she is a citizen of the world with many contacts for the outspoken feminist this comes naturally i think i'm an itinerant by nature in a way i have always been an outsider looking in if you were but i also give a insider's perspective in 2022 piece one of banner was the 1st african woman to be awarded the good to medal making her a role model for an entire generation when you're an artist you want to be on just speaking to one people it means a lot where it can resonate with it with somebody in berlin or with somebody in
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munich with somebody in brazil but her main commitment is to her continent africa but maybe we need. more voices that are more visible a lot of african countries are only going to 16 years from colonialism we're still growing we are still in. kenya has been battling the pandemic for more than a year and like everywhere else in the world it is women who have been hit particularly hard by the crisis. of banner has a message for women but also for men this is a message we all have of the sky may we get the recognition we deserve cold and suddenly we do. and may we and our allies and learned the hard that allow us to celebrate mediocre contributions by men over excellent contributions by
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women i wish you all a reflective and pollen 365 days this woman stays. in. hi there karen homestead here reporting from berlin and i'd like you to meet unlike wells she's a polish artist and activist who now lives here in germany and she never misses a chance to fight for the rights of women in her home country and after poland's recent near total ban on abortion she now feels their voices more than ever need to be amplified well beyond their own borders oh i. polish women around the barricades. many feel their bodies have become a political battleground. a global scream expresses their collective outrage it's
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an initiative of honor kinds a tireless leader in the fight for women's reproductive rights and the stakes just got higher things have changed as well because it's war now since last year in poland it's a war of women against the government. last october poland's constitutional court voted to clamp down even further on one of europe's most restrictive abortion laws the ruling prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest here in the capital warsaw. in late january 2021 the ruling was abruptly published into law abortion is now illegal even in the case of severe fetal defects amounting to a de facto ban in the predominantly catholic country. yeah. in berlin and a krentz turned up the volume on behalf of her countrywomen. yeah. it's just
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an imperative you have to do something you cannot really sit on your sofa but that's why that's why we stand on the streets we think it's important we want to show their solidarity with polish women we are polish women as well and we are angry at the same besides what happens in poland it also it has. influence on sings in other countries. and i came to berlin in 2002 in 2016 growing outrage over the proposed abortion bill in poland prompted her to found. an inclusive feminist collective that also advocates for l.g.b. t.q. rights. with fellow member or bad teen she staking out a protest action for international women's day symbols are a vital part of her work whether graphic or performance.
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lace invent. it's a very feminine material it's very it can cover but it can also reveal things and if you talk about abortion and abortion this bill or the regulation of abortion is one of the very few maybe the only one which regulates your very private life your body deep in your body your heart soul whatever but it's very very private like the dress or with a curtain that covers you from the outside world but you can also look through it and you see the world differently. one of the. goals of our actions is that we can be the voice of polish women abroad. transfield from poznan where she trained as an architect she later studied environmental design and now works mainly as a freelance graphic artist but currently her activist causes are nearly all
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consuming. we cannot stop fighting we really have to keep fighting because it's not only about abortion. all of this happening in poland it happens on many other levels abortion is one of them and it's very serious but we cannot stop because every day we see something else is really falling apart i think this country disappeared so we really have to still stand on the streets and never give up never give up. drawing and the urge to comment on the world through art remain a constant need. both my parents were artists they are now gone but both of them they did art and art was always present in our house it was like the most important thing the reality and daily things of you not important art. for the time being her private art has had to take a back seat she's currently working on an activist diary
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a document the women of poland may 1 day look back on with gratitude. but for now the battle continues. to stand together in the fight let's keep fighting perseverance stay strong stay safe. and some upgrading women's courage and creativity on international women's day see you next time. piece a russian role from the song to our long. researchers
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