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spinor that as a syrian citizen it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country. and then i want to present it to people who are convinced that syria is some terrorist country. we can help politicians through music when you develop culture in your country you are working through issues in the world of politics to. them and how you can
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get to see yes this is the best message we can send to the rest of the world to say come and see what syria is what it is and what it has. not. since i was young i have loved arabic calligraphy and i believe god should have a message. that justice means that the rates of the people. should be returned to. well let's. hope
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that there are five and then. after that there should be no more revenge. yet that he's. done that and i don't want to be an oppressed who becomes an oppressor. a stable because of the palestinian conflict is that israelis came from all over the world expelled the palestinians from their land and tokes their country. for trying to create surely the jewish state and cut out as many arabs and get rid of them as we can. israel has laid
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already out there or as one might hope will be some troll so that israel controls every single detail else of. our aid like in south africa is the system that is now being institutions. the walls all separation will. be toughest on the floor told them suspended for no one so what. even. though the other element is domination loot eighty five percent of the country a lot the palestinians in this little enclave is so we control the country we control the water we've been told you call me and the palestinians are going to say to me the first. israel do not build three or four of them settlements secure. them to claim to let. you do you still want to try and. dry release for sphere of
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gold the intruder so. you do need to haul a speed alcohol stands for security. just threw the ball for the school hundred. i'll sit inside what it's. like. to. just give up the bill for the most. high you the only thing that will be left here is hatred if. you think that's funny. soldiers you find out funny moments i. just stood there. and it doesn't carry a. reaction because of the united states bonds. they
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were taken out of their houses they were going out on the street there killing them . there and not letting them have food water or electricity or anything like that. it just puts them in the worst circumstances every instant his identity and his country and took everything from them what do you expect from them of course he's going to blow himself up force is going to kill people so long as they can funnel unheard that under oath even if it's. like taking care of your dog for years and you put them in a cage and you start hurting him hurting them he is going to end up biting you. need to be just please please please please you. most of them so we have tried all the ways we tried to fight we tried to resist ask . they started calling us terrorists but we are defending our land we are defending
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our rights. this is about security at. home and everything and it shows how this village was wiped out. and the grass grew and he took all the remains of the houses to make it look as if there was no village here. this is the tomb of a should used to communicate and to keep alive the history the memories. none of your number is a suburb of jerusalem and the seton by the separation no. the
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music was composed by a band called the five and they are palestinian rappers from a refugee camp in lebanon. are your motto is the problem i was mostly you know when. you. buy your mom drugs how your muscle in the you know. how do. we sing for people who don't listen to rap machine had to find rap is not the main goal. the goal is the cause for which we are singing because as the most important thing. there will be no peace in the world as long as there are people being killed in palestine.
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chosen such as i see the caps here they feel like you know they're going to take suffocated by their circumstance they needed help and support that they just express photograph their country it's in their political turmoil because. i don't feel good life is a picture in the future i would like to become a journalist to show our country how special it is. and to show the truth. that when you give in because you know this and have no responsibility to document their community your empowering them. or able to give these kids a chance to really. people perspective on how.
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good. a. deal is in some parts of rio de janeiro other parts of brazil there are more deaths than actual war zones. here it's an urban war where any living being can be a potential targets. for murder it's like an epidemic of minor conflicts everywhere where firearms. small disputes. disputes over power people shoot for no reason not only the criminals but also the police. but i cannot watch these barbaric i.
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watch people being murdered in this way i'm not feel anything. to change people's lives but i do my part as an artist. because he. did a year. of a mother hugging a school kid who had been shot dead with a smiling policeman next to them holding a smoking gun. at. him in the middle of the night and painted over this billboard. is fascism. one absurdity of the silences another absurdity if you open the paper today there
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is going to be a new absurdity that will make you forget yesterday's. play . itself. forty seven is the most popular rifle in wars throughout the world you can buy one on africa for eight u.s. dollars for the armed groups like it because it's light and children can carry it and shoot it with ease. it's cold and. the philosophy is this if the weapon which was designed to kill. can be changed
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then one counts humans change to. reggae is a cultural organization. gave them one of these guitars so they could keep working in the slums of rio de janeiro for music the kids find the tools to change their reality. i. do the. technology innovation all the least developed around russia we've. covered.
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around like that about i'll see if my work at the racine islam was created to open doors so people could understand the slums and the people who live there. myside i have photographed ten other slums. less than five percent of people in the slums are criminals they are the ones who give the slums a bad name. but the slums are filled with hardworking and honest people it's estimated that in ten years more than half of the world's population will be living in these types of communities in these communities where the violence exists but why in my photos i try to show where the problem is and where the solution is. and i think it starts in childhood at this age ok here is where the problem is. but if we target that age i think that a lot can be done but at the same but at the same.
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i. know that i have come down that much then right i want to set things my bullets in dates. in the case of medicine it's poetry that has united the community. more than one hundred fifty thousand people get together each year at the international poetry festival of men to. demonstrates to the entire world that in a country so drained by war. shows to humanity the whole world's problems.
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that suffering is every war but it also lives in the world. by since i live in such a big country. that everything is far. education . food. health. house in. my country still baek the justice doesn't extend to all. there is abuse of power and grito natural resources because we are the children of a planet from a planet that we're depleting with wars and everything. is free it doesn't unseat governments but it does open consciences and hearts it goes like the. music. or take.
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in more gold. we must stand up as boys and begin to say that we should let is to be sexist. but the time has come for us to remember our values to put right all our wrongs to celebrate our humanity and truly live the belief that each of us is the same person as all of us are home. the. if you use only one hand nothing happens but with thousands of hands things will change. why did i protest at all when people are scrounging for work without any freedom they are repressed and arrested by the government told me
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i'm up let me out of the. garden the military trucks smash the gates and entered the monastery they beat up everyone and destroyed everything they tied up the monks and they kicked anyone who looked up. for you know that you know they made the monks crawl to the trucks they beat them from behind until they vomited blood. regardless of our lives we protest we protest for freedom. it's obvious the what the regime is doing is very unjust getting students and monks in jail as political prisoners. monks were and continue to be tortured and. sit on us military dictatorships never care about the people you do it to us and.
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they control and subjugate with fear of the law don't be on a teaching. ladder. that was i. i. i. i i. as monks we don't take up arms and nick that we don't start revolutions no. i know no more. than making the political situation would not benefit from orange revolution as you. well know i would say that the
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protest wasn't successful because many were killed. but within the past no one knew that the dictator tortured bait and arrested people need upolu moment we are but we know these of them are you can. do we are suffering revolution showed the world the cruelty of his regime of our you are not you need to know yes that is what all of this is one tangible victory. it was your government. the notion of what we do as people all around the world have huge consequences. for the extraordinary global mobilizations of february fifteenth two thousand and
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three when the world said no to war there were somewhere between twelve and fourteen million people in the streets that day all with the same slogan the world says no to in a hundred different languages it was an amazing outpouring of love. the guinness book of world records said it was the largest outpouring of humanity on one issue in the history of the world. and truth is later the new york times wrote there are once again two superpowers in the world the united states global public opinion that was huge we failed to stop the war. but it did mean that when the war happened no one could deny that it was illegal this wasn't a situation where the us had been able to bribe and threaten enough countries of the un that the un gave them permission. might be and. the moon. was. a. bad thing.
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pentagon playing own ego and items such. as what great things come and go. and so we're trying to realistically as possible percent this world as it could be so people can see what it's like. if you start to work towards it and then we have to push to make things actually. after the strike you have. to do all the things. that needs to be different. and that should be the country.
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