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AST SPEAKS WITH QM Dr ChenziRa Davis Kahina_AST SPEAKS LIVE EVERY 1ST 3RD THURSDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: That represent time speak speaks with Queen Mother Doctor Trent
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Speaker 1: live every first on her Thursday at APMSD col Shop healing, heritage, spirituality.
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Speaker 2: Caribean roots and Afrikandi Aspa. I'm thank right Charles for
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Speaker 2: the world Ah Queen Mada.
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Speaker 3: Doctor Chen brings short with pride, culture in the rhythm,
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Speaker 3: wisdom in the soul, healing for the people, roots in
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Speaker 3: sacred round.
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Speaker 2: She keeps the story, She keeps it alive.
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Speaker 3: African diasmora we rise and triumph, Caribbean voices.
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Speaker 2: Bud and free unknowring ancestors, shaping destiny as the steaks
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Speaker 2: let the people know, putar and healing in the recad
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Speaker 2: flu as. This speaks heritage, strong spiritual wisdom all night
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Speaker 2: long and strong every person ear Thursday Tune in life
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Speaker 2: the mbstic from bear the vibe.
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Speaker 3: We rise, We see we Ladada datchet see mistics standing
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Speaker 3: preserving the flame, teaching our people to honor the name.
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Speaker 4: Berronk moving with Jack for life, culture.
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Speaker 2: Healing, art, spirit and life.
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Speaker 4: The Marlagic community with Dumcu building up the people in
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Speaker 4: all we do, from island routes to glocal lands, we remember, rise.
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Speaker 2: And stand One African vision reparation, spot justice, unhealing for
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Speaker 2: one and all honible. Please are a heart y or
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Speaker 2: to amazan music bringing vibes to you as this speek,
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Speaker 2: let the people know qualchar and healing in our rega too,
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Speaker 2: as thetis heritage shop spiritual wisdom all night life, every
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Speaker 2: First Sunder Thursday June in life via m PSD comput Divine,
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Speaker 2: We rise, we see Queen.
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Speaker 5: Greetings Hotel. It's been a moment, so I'd like to
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Speaker 5: first and foremost ask everyone to just take a moment
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Speaker 5: of reflection. I want to really give thanks and praise
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Speaker 5: to the One most High, so that we may live
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Speaker 5: each day daily for the One most divine, and we
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Speaker 5: may do it tomorrow just as we do it today.
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Speaker 5: And the meta nature we would say I'm a suet,
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Speaker 5: We're really just giving thanks and honor and glory and
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Speaker 5: asking for blessings and abundance at a time where the
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Speaker 5: world is very, very very challenging, where the world community
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Speaker 5: is under siege, where our children, our mothers, our fathers,
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Speaker 5: our daughters, our sons, our aunts, our uncles, our grandmothers,
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Speaker 5: our grandfathers, our husbands, wives are authentically having their sovereign
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Speaker 5: human rights challenged, ignored, neglected. So I'm really grateful for
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Speaker 5: being able to open. And I have to give a
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Speaker 5: special shout out to our beloved sister Queen Visionary Angela
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Speaker 5: for just having that vision and that word sound power
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Speaker 5: to add musical openings like which you were just hearing
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Speaker 5: in regards to us, speaks highlighting culture, healing, arts, technology
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Speaker 5: and spirituality through a lens of the House of life
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Speaker 5: that we know as per arc and I just need
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Speaker 5: for everyone to just take a really.
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Speaker 6: Deep breath.
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Speaker 5: And like hold it, hold that sacred space, and when
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Speaker 5: you release, you're releasing all of the tension, anger, rage,
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Speaker 5: so that your body can be enveloped and elevated with
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Speaker 5: as much peace, as much balance and harmony.
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Speaker 6: To assist us in.
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Speaker 5: Knowing what is the best action and the most corrective
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Speaker 5: manner to handle these challenges. I start there because there
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Speaker 5: has been so many things that have transpired from the
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Speaker 5: month of May as we're moving through the month of June,
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Speaker 5: you know, and May had so many observances around mental
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Speaker 5: health awareness here in the Virgin Islands. It was a
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Speaker 5: time where the third week of the month of May
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Speaker 5: is designated as Virgin Islands African Heritage week, so it's
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Speaker 5: usually between the nineteenth and the twenty fifth of May
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Speaker 5: every year. So it incorporates Malcolm X's birthday, and incorporates
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Speaker 5: United Caribbean Associations Anniversary on the twentieth, and incorporates the
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Speaker 5: observances of uplifting efforts to move the needle forward around
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Speaker 5: African Liberation, highlighting not only Africa Day as the African
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Speaker 5: Union has shifted, but was originally known as African Liberation Day.
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Speaker 5: When we're liberated, then we can just remove liberation. We're
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Speaker 5: still in liberation quest mode. So May twenty fifth days
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Speaker 5: leading up to May twenty fifth are all part of
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Speaker 5: the African Liberation Day observances, which really envelope the entire
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Speaker 5: month of May, amongst other international observances international days. This year,
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Speaker 5: the twenty fifth harmonized with Memorial Day alongside the observances
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Speaker 5: in the forty eight contiguous US that spread throughout the region.
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Speaker 6: In the Americas.
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Speaker 3: For some.
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Speaker 5: There were highlights navigating around how do we move from
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Speaker 5: that African liberation uplifting engagement. There were a host of
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Speaker 5: Pan African summits. This year was the sixty third African
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Speaker 5: Liberation Day commemoration, specifically through the lens of the work
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Speaker 5: and efforts of the honorable Osadrifo, doctor Kwame and Kruma,
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Speaker 5: the first elected president of an independent Republic of Ghana.
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Speaker 5: And we're going back into nineteen fifty eight, moving to
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Speaker 5: nineteen sixty three and then what transpired after that time,
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Speaker 5: and many of the themes were around pan Africanism, the
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Speaker 5: total liberation and unification of Africa under a scientific socialist government.
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Speaker 5: That was the focus in the fifties and sixties.
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Speaker 6: And now we know.
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Speaker 5: It's sovereign governance that comes with sovereign governance, which means
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Speaker 5: that jurisprudence, law justice should be sovereign and fair for
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Speaker 5: our people. It means that our food security and sovereignty
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Speaker 5: should be equitable and fair for our people, and of course.
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Speaker 6: Our shared humanity.
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Speaker 5: It means that our access to clean water, clean air, housing,
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Speaker 5: those basic elements that we require, not just want, but
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Speaker 5: that we require to be able to live a balanced,
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Speaker 5: harmonious life, should be available to our people in harmony
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Speaker 5: with our shared humanity. Entities that support racism, sexism, classes, terrorism, genocide,
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Speaker 5: illegal incarceration, human trafficking, enslavement, and other crimes against humanity
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Speaker 5: should be eradicated, so when we're highlighting these observances from
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Speaker 5: May moving into June, which has its own iteration around
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Speaker 5: a national and it's interesting this was during the George Bush,
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Speaker 5: the second administration, there was a charge, a call through
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Speaker 5: organizations like the Institute of Caribbean Studies, And we have
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Speaker 5: to give doctor Claire Nelson her acolades for putting that
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Speaker 5: particular initiative, along with her colleagues as supporters and other
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Speaker 5: grassroots academic, communitarian, humanitarian, visuals and organizations highlighting the month
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Speaker 5: of June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month. And it
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Speaker 5: has actually spread throughout not just the forty eight contiguous US,
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Speaker 5: as it was originally established through presidential proclamations and declarations
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Speaker 5: and resolutions that were supported by congressional representatives, but it
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Speaker 5: has moved in the region and has been highlighted around
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Speaker 5: the world in the context of supporting Caribbean heritage wherever
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Speaker 5: it manifests, because Caribbean heritage is Caribbean civilization, which contributes
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Speaker 5: to our shared humanity. And I'm pausing for a moment
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Speaker 5: so that I can really remind our brothers and sisters
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Speaker 5: that this is a time that really demands and commands
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Speaker 5: peace and tranquility, however, not a peace and tranquility without action,
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Speaker 5: not a peace and tranquility of being a doormat or
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Speaker 5: so passive that no transformative change and improvement inequality of
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Speaker 5: life for each and every one of us is made
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Speaker 5: will manifest not just manifests, but balanced harmonious in our manifestation.
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Speaker 6: It gives me an opportunity.
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Speaker 5: To share tonight as I have not been able to
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Speaker 5: for we've had technological issues on my side, We've had
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Speaker 5: some communicative interference. There are energies that really do not
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Speaker 5: desire for some of the truths that we speak of
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Speaker 5: when we're referencing OST Speaks, and for those that are
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Speaker 5: not that familiar with os Speaks, or if this is
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Speaker 5: your first time viewing and listening and engaging, I always
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Speaker 5: encourage brothers and sisters that are seeing this live and
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Speaker 5: the various platforms, whether it's YouTube or Facebook or any
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Speaker 5: of the other multiple platforms that King and Queens of
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Speaker 5: the airwaves makes possible, ask questions, share your reflections. This
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Speaker 5: is more of a sharing of information, but information that
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Speaker 5: is guided and grounded in actionable deliverables. That's a real
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Speaker 5: serious hashtag share that hashtag actionable deliverables. We have reached
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Speaker 5: a plateau of space. Maybe I'm moving from plateau to
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Speaker 5: an entire realm where our unity in our community is essential.
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Speaker 5: Our ability to share and show and live respectfully among
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Speaker 5: one another is essential and urgent one of the things.
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Speaker 5: And I'm pulling this one because I know that if
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Speaker 5: I try to put it on the screen, it's not
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Speaker 5: going to show up. But I just would like to
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Speaker 5: highlight one of the themes shared in East Africa or African
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Speaker 5: Liberation Months and featured during African Liberation Day on May
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Speaker 5: twenty fifth, pan African Unity and Action, the call for
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Speaker 5: a Greater Collective Future, focused at fostering economic interaction, sustainable development,
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Speaker 5: and collective peace and security. I think I'm going to
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Speaker 5: read that one one more time so that persons can
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Speaker 5: know what is in the mindset of our global African
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Speaker 5: brothers and sisters who are sharing a multiplicity of ideas,
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Speaker 5: a multiplicity of actions, educational initiatives and programs, curricula, assessment tools,
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Speaker 5: evaluation research, development, economic drivers. Focusing on the various businesses
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Speaker 5: that not only do they exist, maybe you and I
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Speaker 5: may not know about them, but when we come together
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Speaker 5: and share. Brothers and sisters are coming with business plans,
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Speaker 5: sustainability studies, feasibility ports that are very detailed on what
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Speaker 5: types of resources are needed and essential to trigger sustainable
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Speaker 5: transformative growth in our communities that essentially minimize the criminality issue,
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Speaker 5: the violence issues what people keep referring to as gun violence,
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Speaker 5: gang violence awareness, etc. But what are the things? What
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Speaker 5: are the tools? What are the resources that our brothers
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Speaker 5: and sisters are asking for? Have we actually asked the
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Speaker 5: youth what they want and listen to what they say?
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Speaker 5: Are we hearing what our veterans are saying? And when
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Speaker 5: I say veterans, I'm speaking of anyone that gives their
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Speaker 5: life their service to their respective countries, especially in times
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Speaker 5: of war and for militaristic or executive security purposes. Right,
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Speaker 5: what about our elders? But people like to say the seniors,
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Speaker 5: the living ancestors. How are we caring for them and
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Speaker 5: helping them to care for themselves? So I'd like to
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Speaker 5: read this theme that has been used specifically in East
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Speaker 5: Africa for African Liberation Day twenty twenty six, and I'm
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Speaker 5: just reading it directly from this poster Pan African Unity
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Speaker 5: and Action. The call for a greater collective future focused
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Speaker 5: at fostering economic interaction, sustainable development, collective peace and security.
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Speaker 5: And I'm going to eventually post some of these photographs
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Speaker 5: that were featured from the attacare International Development Organization's network
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Speaker 5: in that is grounded. It's the childable organization that is
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Speaker 5: grounded in or I should say, based in the UK,
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Speaker 5: with representation throughout the global African diasport. So IDO International
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Speaker 5: has centers representation in the of course, in Uganda, in Kenya,
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Speaker 5: in the Cameroons, in Asagna, in South Africa, and it
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Speaker 5: expands through more than six hundred kingdoms, and I think
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Speaker 5: persons need to hear that. And in addition to that,
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Speaker 5: alongside what has grown out and within and through IDO
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Speaker 5: is the global African diaspora kingdom with representation throughout Africa
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Speaker 5: and the continent in addition to Eurasia, in addition to
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Speaker 5: Canada on the forty eight contiguous US, the Caribbean is
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Speaker 5: a very serious stronghold as well as Central America and
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Speaker 5: representation coming into from South America as well. And I
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Speaker 5: think it's important to know that this collective peace and security,
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Speaker 5: this sustainable development and economic drive or focus is essential
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Speaker 5: to the pan African movement, realm, civilization building and other
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Speaker 5: actionable deliverables that are linked during And so when we're
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Speaker 5: saying as speaks, it's a speaks and the other side
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Speaker 5: is with actionable deliverables.
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Speaker 6: O speaks is.
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Speaker 5: Not just for us to converse or discuss or just talk.
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Speaker 5: It's really grounded on what areas in your community or
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Speaker 5: the communities that you serve or are a part of,
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Speaker 5: where you are affecting some degree of change or establishing
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Speaker 5: institutions irrespective of their size, that are transformative for the
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Speaker 5: communities that you serve. Where do you volunteer? It may
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Speaker 5: be volunteers at the right term, because volunteerism has become
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Speaker 5: an issue where person's always want to get paid for
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Speaker 5: everything that they do. So let's look at it as
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Speaker 5: a reciprocal investment. I like them as ris a reciprocal investment.
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Speaker 5: What is it that you give an offer in your
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Speaker 5: respective community that has value, has worth, and supports a
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Speaker 5: need in your respective community, and how is that exchanged
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Speaker 5: that way? No one will feel used, No one should
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Speaker 5: feel that they're just giving, given, given, giving, giving, giving,
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Speaker 5: given giving, and it's not reciprocated.
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Speaker 6: How do you.
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Speaker 5: Engage in reciprocal investments, because that term volunteer has come
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Speaker 5: to mean so many different things that do not always
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Speaker 5: meet with making persons feel fulfilled or feel that it's
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Speaker 5: an equitable exchange. And granted, there are going to be
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Speaker 5: times where you may give more than what you think
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Speaker 5: you receive, when in actuality you are actually receiving more
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Speaker 5: than you think that you're giving. And I'm not going
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Speaker 5: to belabor that point. I just am highlighting that we're
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Speaker 5: speaking of that principle that most persons that have listened
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Speaker 5: to us Speaks podcasts in the previous iterations. No, we
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Speaker 5: speak of the principle, a very feminine, yet harmonious and
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Speaker 5: balanced principle of my art. And that principle, very ancestral,
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Speaker 5: ancient principle with contemporary transformative value worth need is grounded
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Speaker 5: in our ancestral sacred sovereignty that transforms how we live.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to say that again ancestral ancient sacred technology,
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Speaker 5: and those that are listening will understand when we say
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Speaker 5: as Speaks, that's what we're referencing because it connects to
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Speaker 5: those actionable deliverables. How do we begin to bring these
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Speaker 5: things in to fruition in our respective communities. I'll give
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Speaker 5: an example. We have communities in spaces like the Pocomo
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Speaker 5: community in Kenya. We have been very fortunate and blessed
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Speaker 5: to have ongoing collective, harmonious opportunities to support their community
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Speaker 5: under the leadership and royal grounding of His Royal Majesty
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Speaker 5: King Doctor Makarani Mungasi the Seventh, who in his day
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Speaker 5: and work is a position a medically trained and certified
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Speaker 5: credential licensed physician and he made the choice to provide
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Speaker 5: his services in his home country of Kenya and to
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Speaker 5: specifically focus on the establishment of health care facilities and
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Speaker 5: of course having young people have opportunities to train internationally
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Speaker 5: in medical health fields, some in his tenure as the
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Speaker 5: Dean at the School of Health Sciences in Medicine at
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Speaker 5: Hawana University and as well in other international institutions programs clinics,
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Speaker 5: hospitals and beyond. I think it's important for persons to
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Speaker 5: find out about the Pocomo and learn what are the
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Speaker 5: ways that we can begin to support them. And there's
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Speaker 5: a layer of things, whether it's through education, the support
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Speaker 5: of establishing and strengthening some of their institutions in the region,
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Speaker 5: inclusive of yet not limited to the Mau Mau Secondary
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Speaker 5: Girls' School. And I'm going to pause there for a
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Speaker 5: minute because persons like mal and I want us to go,
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Speaker 5: not just mal Mao the revolutionary entities that help with
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Speaker 5: deliberation notice where we're going, and the sovereign restoration of
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Speaker 5: the people of Kenya, but the fact that there is
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Speaker 5: still an institution called the Mau Mau Secondary Girls School
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Speaker 5: and that they are doing great educational training and educational
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Speaker 5: and providing educational opportunities for these young women regardless of
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Speaker 5: the limitations and resource. Therefore, when persons like myself are
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Speaker 5: in these spaces, alongside my colleagues and comrades and royals
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Speaker 5: in IDO International, GA d K and other organizations, one
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Speaker 5: person can do great things, but together.
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Speaker 6: We can rebuild.
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Speaker 5: Civilization, nations, community and society. When I'm asking what are
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Speaker 5: you doing in your community? And again this is something that.
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Speaker 6: Goes for all of us.
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Speaker 5: There's brothers and sisters that are doing work in Africa,
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Speaker 5: Brothers and sisters that are building communities, literally building housing
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Speaker 5: residential communities in schools and churches and mosques and temples
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Speaker 5: and clinics and maternity wings for hospitals and providing solar
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Speaker 5: power sources, water pump systems, inverters, some requiring fuel, but
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Speaker 5: because of the limitations with even fuel, as we know
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Speaker 5: this is affecting the Earth.
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Speaker 6: Persons are moving towards other sources.
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Speaker 5: Of power to be able to maintain utilities and to
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Speaker 5: ensure that clean water something is what may appear simple
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Speaker 5: to our brothers and sisters in the West, but in
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Speaker 5: other parts of the world does having access to clean water,
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Speaker 5: making sure the air is clean, making sure that our
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Speaker 5: brothers and sisters that are being subjected to excessive flooding
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Speaker 5: or excessive drought or other climate change environmental challenges can
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Speaker 5: live and thrive. When we speak of AST speaks and
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Speaker 5: we speak of building a new legacy, that is what
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Speaker 5: we're speaking to. When you hear us speaking about Pan Africanism,
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Speaker 5: when we speak about restitution, repatriation, reparatory justice, reparation, sovereignty,
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Speaker 5: human rights, these are elements that have their own thread
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Speaker 5: to us.
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Speaker 6: There is a.
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Speaker 5: Tapestry that harmonizes, reciprocates, unifies, transforms and strengthens each and
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Speaker 5: every one of us. And that's part of what I
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Speaker 5: realize that we together are destined and are to be
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Speaker 5: authentically respectfully and with integrity, moving towards doing together here
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Speaker 5: on this side of the Atlantic. There are so many
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Speaker 5: issues that are transpired. We have persons creating anarchy and instability,
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Speaker 5: not that there was an instability before. However, it is
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Speaker 5: to become excessive, as has been manifested, impacting more heavily
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Speaker 5: in the forty eight contiguous US, and it literally ripples
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Speaker 5: around the planet while persons are up in arms as
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Speaker 5: we should be collectively on injustice in legal systems and
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Speaker 5: justice that is put out for brothers and sisters of
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Speaker 5: African ancestry for self defense. In contrast to the Eurasian cousins.
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Speaker 5: When it's self defense, they're let free. With an African
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Speaker 5: it's seen as an act of terror and they are
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Speaker 5: incarcerated quite excessively. I don't have to say names. I'm
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Speaker 5: going to leave that to the wider circle because the
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Speaker 5: list is long. We have our own brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 5: and I'm going to bring this right into where I
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Speaker 5: sit in the paradise that America claims it has established
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Speaker 5: in the Caribbean, in a colony that has been in
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Speaker 5: this colonial space since nineteen sixteen by treaty and since
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Speaker 5: nineteen seventeen by a transfer and purchase of twenty five
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Speaker 5: million dollars in gold, the most expensive real estate per
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Speaker 5: acre in the history of properties purchased by the US government.
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Speaker 5: This little small area geographically at the center between the
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Speaker 5: forty eight contiguous Central and South America and a wide
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Speaker 5: occurredan that is legally known as the Virgin Islands of
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Speaker 5: the United States, but for tourist reasons they'd like to
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Speaker 5: say US false, and then Virgin Islands second.
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Speaker 6: But according to the legal.
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Speaker 5: Documents in the treaty that have not been revoked, it
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Speaker 5: is the Virgin Islands of the United States. So many
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Speaker 5: of us in this region say Virgin Islands US, just
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Speaker 5: so people get it. In this space, we have reached
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Speaker 5: in the middle of the month of June to nineteen homicides,
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Speaker 5: which is large for a place that has an island
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Speaker 5: that is eighty four square miles Saint Croix, thirty two
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Speaker 5: square miles Saint Thomas, twenty square miles Saint John, and
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Speaker 5: two square miles Water Island. And while the focus right
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Speaker 5: now was on an election that is really challenging the
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Speaker 5: electorate because certain civics and political awareness and political education
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Speaker 5: on this process has been weaning and intentionally delayed to
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Speaker 5: create a type of a confusion or haze even around
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Speaker 5: the people weave the people making the best and most
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Speaker 5: affective choices. This should sound familiar.
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Speaker 6: So whether you call it.
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Speaker 5: Gerrymandering or gentrification or repopulation, or a form of terrorism
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Speaker 5: that impacts the mind to the point that we think
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Speaker 5: that nothing is out of order, and those that speak
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Speaker 5: of things being out of order are usually ostracized, threatened, isolated,
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Speaker 5: or disappeared. So I'm saying these things from a space
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Speaker 5: of actionable deliverables that we can do together, so that
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Speaker 5: what's happening in the forty eight contiguous US we can
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Speaker 5: support and offer a collective hand of strength. Some people
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Speaker 5: choose to march and rally, and they should not be
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Speaker 5: interfered with. Other persons choose to be more stealth like
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Speaker 5: and should not be interfered with. When you have eight
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Speaker 5: billion people on the planet in counting, everybody tends not
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Speaker 5: to do the same thing except breathe and occasionally eat
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Speaker 5: and occasionally remove waste from the body. For us to
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Speaker 5: have balance, for us to have harmony, for us to
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Speaker 5: really implement those principles of my hotist truth, just disorder reciprocity, balance,
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Speaker 5: divine righteousness, and harmony. We're gonna need to come back
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Speaker 5: to what will allow us to foster a spiritual transformation
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Speaker 5: that will positively and with long term sustainable impact, restructure
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Speaker 5: our economies, our social systems, our political systems, our educational systems,
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Speaker 5: our environmental systems.
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Speaker 6: And again, notice what.
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Speaker 5: I started with, spiritual sustainable transformation. How do we do that?
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Speaker 5: Because some of our brothers and sisters are so busy
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Speaker 5: having to mourn their children and their family members, and
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Speaker 5: there are no rules of engagement. So I'm gonna pause
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Speaker 5: for a minute so that we go into a high sight.
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Speaker 5: I was having this conversation with one of my colleagues,
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Speaker 5: and here there's been like a back forth. It's like
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Speaker 5: a ping pong, not even tennis, it's not that long.
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Speaker 6: It's like ping ping, ping ping.
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Speaker 5: You know, this youth is shot in broad daylight at
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Speaker 5: a basketball court in the middle of the community. Nobody
35:50
Speaker 5: sees anything. Nobody winds up, and we recognize and understand
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Speaker 5: the fear, and we understand and recognize as the lack
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Speaker 5: of trust in the police and persons in authority who
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Speaker 5: are usually related to the people that are doing these
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Speaker 5: particular victimization crime issues. It's not always just someone outside
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Speaker 5: or these people that people know. And again remember our
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Speaker 5: community is small here. And then next day, a couple
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Speaker 5: of days past, someone that they suspected that had something
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Speaker 5: to do with that, they get shot though.
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Speaker 6: Persons creating certain.
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Speaker 5: Contention in the community, in front of a home. Again
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Speaker 5: before the sun goes down, shot in front of everybody.
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Speaker 5: Some people wear masks, some don't, so of course people
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Speaker 5: are stunned, are frozen. And so this is a call
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Speaker 5: out to the women because just like our brothers will
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Speaker 5: feel it in their heart and their gut and their
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Speaker 5: soul because it's their young brethren or their daughters. They're
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Speaker 5: not us, their aunties, their sons, that they now have
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Speaker 5: to shift from them being in the living to them
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Speaker 5: preparing to celebrate their life. And then we have those
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Speaker 5: that are still amongst the living that for protecting themselves
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Speaker 5: because of this fear cycle that has been initiated as
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Speaker 5: a system and an institution for defending themselves against worrying
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Speaker 5: entities that show hate and diabolical energy towards then and
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Speaker 5: because they didn't lay down and just take slap up
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Speaker 5: and beat down and threat our sons. Some of our
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Speaker 5: daughters are incarcerated with no justice or consideration for what transpired.
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Speaker 5: So I paused there because again this can be heavy.
38:38
Speaker 5: Not everyone is ready to have these types of informative sharings.
38:44
Speaker 5: And again just a perspective, because there's other perspectives. You know,
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Speaker 5: no parent desires or ever looks forward to laying to
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Speaker 5: rest their child. And the number of funerals that I
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Speaker 5: have officiated in that capacity, like officiating a celebration of
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Speaker 5: life or an old person is a joy because you
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Speaker 5: get to talk about their life lived and their accomplishments
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Speaker 5: and the challenges they endured, and their commitment to the
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Speaker 5: creator and what they did in the community. You have
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Speaker 5: time to have a eulogy. When it's somebody that's nineteen
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Speaker 5: and fourteen and twenty five, the eulogy is short and
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Speaker 5: you end up spending more time talking about what on
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Speaker 5: Earth led up to this on sudden murder, assassination, execution.
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Speaker 5: So sometimes when we're having these types.
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Speaker 6: Of conversations, you know, all of our communities have them.
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Speaker 5: You know, you've got the gun violence awareness and the
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Speaker 5: gang violence awareness commissions and organizations and faith based groups
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Speaker 5: that will gather and we have visials, and we have
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Speaker 5: the T shirt with the person that has been murdered
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Speaker 5: on the shirt and boutineer and after all of the
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Speaker 5: celebration of life and the beautiful sendoff and the recognition
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Speaker 5: of the life lost prematurely.
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Speaker 6: That after wake part.
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Speaker 5: Creates a mental anguish that it exceeds the mental health
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Speaker 5: and balance says that our people are already exposed to.
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Speaker 5: So just imagine people are already schizophrenic, already traumatized from
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Speaker 5: hundreds of near millennia of chaos and trafficking and distortions
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Speaker 5: in our humanity and diabolical institutions that reframe very negatively
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Speaker 5: how we operate as humans. And on top of that,
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Speaker 5: then we have the internalized hatred and the internalized institutions
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Speaker 5: where it's a parasitic eating away of our very own.
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Speaker 6: Amongst our own.
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Speaker 5: So when it happens across race or class, or gender
41:56
Speaker 5: or sexual preference, whatever it is, it's still humanity parasiting
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Speaker 5: and eating away in itself. So then the victim so called,
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Speaker 5: is one portion, and the predator whatever words you'd like
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Speaker 5: to use, the criminal, the enforce it, whatever term. That's
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Speaker 5: a whole other mindset that we have to begin to
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Speaker 5: undo and so it makes me you know, as we
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Speaker 5: you know, it's very easy to have this discourse and
42:37
Speaker 5: share different things because these are the types of elements
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Speaker 5: that affect how we engage on a day to day
42:47
Speaker 5: basis and what we prioritize. You know, we are no
42:51
Speaker 5: longer benefiting from only reacting to things from external stimuli.
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Speaker 5: We know that there's criminality. We know that people are
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Speaker 5: kidnapping people's children, and we know people are snatching people.
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Speaker 6: For body parts.
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Speaker 5: We know we know there's prostitution, We know that there's
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Speaker 5: gang warfare, gun trafficking, human trafficking that still exists. You know,
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Speaker 5: people are still speaking of that their slave markets, not
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Speaker 5: only in Africa.
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Speaker 6: In the world.
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Speaker 5: Persons have thought that this has become, has maintained, not become,
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Speaker 5: has continued to be tolerated, and prayer with actionable deliverables
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Speaker 5: is essential. Transformative actions that support peace and tranquility are essential.
44:00
Speaker 5: As we speak, in the next several hours, there will
44:07
Speaker 5: be a continuum a day too, if you will, of
44:12
Speaker 5: the next steps gathering. And I want to make sure
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Speaker 5: that I share that part because this is again, all
44:19
Speaker 5: of this is happening, all of these other realities. You
44:22
Speaker 5: know we've got the World Cup going on. You have
44:25
Speaker 5: some referees cheating, let me rephrase, some referees executing questionable
44:33
Speaker 5: actions and calls in the game that are affecting the outcomes.
44:38
Speaker 5: So it's creating animosity even in what was supposed to
44:42
Speaker 5: be sportsmanlike conduct in a World Cup, in authentic football soccer.
44:54
Speaker 5: We're grateful that today was a day that had celebratory activities,
44:59
Speaker 5: whether persons were involved in the Obama Presidential Centers grant
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Speaker 5: opening which was star studded, and persons were really able
45:10
Speaker 5: to be in a positive rama celebration. Although you have
45:14
Speaker 5: other persons that questions certain things that happened during that presidency,
45:20
Speaker 5: specifically in the spaces of that specifically with Libya amongst
45:24
Speaker 5: other areas. But the good news, people were able to
45:28
Speaker 5: celebrate and there was some elevation of the spirit in
45:33
Speaker 5: a positive way. We already know that New York has
45:38
Speaker 5: become its own civilization after a fifty plus year dry
45:47
Speaker 5: spell for the New York Knicks. So go next, make
45:51
Speaker 5: sure I cover that part as well. And as I
45:57
Speaker 5: said in Ghana today which is for them now yesterday,
46:05
Speaker 5: there has been a there are convenings and I want
46:12
Speaker 5: to make sure that I call it what they gave
46:16
Speaker 5: it to me as the next steps. Yeah, the next
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Speaker 5: steps is a convening a high level consultative conference on
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Speaker 5: the next steps to the landmark United Nations Resolution A
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Speaker 5: res eighty. Make sure I give it right two point fifty.
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Speaker 5: You can go online and look for it declaring notice
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Speaker 5: the language that's used, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans
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Speaker 5: and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime
46:59
Speaker 5: against humanity. I'm going to read that one more time
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Speaker 5: because this is what's going on while we're having these
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Speaker 5: reality shifts in our respective home spaces, places of residents,
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Speaker 5: places where we recreate, worship and live. Okay, this is
47:17
Speaker 5: a conference being hosted in Ghana on the invitation of
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Speaker 5: His Excellency, President John Mohammad of the Republic of Ghana,
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Speaker 5: alongside partnerships with Kara Kam, the Caribbean community and their
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Speaker 5: heads of state. Many of the heads of state are there,
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Speaker 5: inclusive of her Excellency Prime Minister Mia A. More Motley
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Speaker 5: of Barbados, along with a wide delegation at this representation
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Speaker 5: from some of the finest upright minds and practitioners and
47:59
Speaker 5: active and grassroots organizers and academicians and community as well
48:07
Speaker 5: as intellectual scholars. And then some ambassadors, et cetera, et cetera,
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Speaker 5: and royals from the Caribbean, Central and South America, the
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Speaker 5: forty eight contiguous US in Canada, Eurasia, Africa, the world
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Speaker 5: are present. So I just need for persons to be
48:29
Speaker 5: on top of this. So I'm gonna say it again.
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Speaker 5: This Next Step Conference is the Consultative Conference on the
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Speaker 5: Next Steps of the landmark United Nations Resolution a Res.
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Speaker 5: Eighty two fifty eight zero slash two five zero, declaring
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Speaker 5: the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of
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Speaker 5: Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. And Day two
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Speaker 5: is going to start in a few hours, and I
49:14
Speaker 5: encourage persons to either look on the Odd Speaks Facebook page.
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Speaker 5: I will do my best to make sure that the
49:22
Speaker 5: links are available there, but you can easily just google
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Speaker 5: Next STEPSKANA twenty twenty six, and I'm very sure that
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Speaker 5: you will be able to find that information. And I'm
49:33
Speaker 5: hoping that it's not just that they put it up live,
49:36
Speaker 5: but that they will keep it up so persons that
49:39
Speaker 5: are unable to watch at a particular time in the day.
49:43
Speaker 5: You know, let's say nine to four in Akah. Let's
49:49
Speaker 5: say nine is going to be about four in the
49:53
Speaker 5: morning East Coast time, so for those persons that are
49:57
Speaker 5: tuning in. And I know that snippets are going to
50:00
Speaker 5: have been made available on caracom's website and specifically on
50:05
Speaker 5: the care Com Reparations Commissions up dating site and their
50:09
Speaker 5: YouTube pages, along with the Caribbean Pan African Networks site,
50:15
Speaker 5: as well as the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago,
50:20
Speaker 5: as well as the Caribbean Rastafari Organization and others. And
50:25
Speaker 5: I'm saying these things so that persons can and I'm
50:29
Speaker 5: saying it is slow because it's important to know. All
50:34
Speaker 5: of these things are relatable. All of these gatherings give
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Speaker 5: rise to how we prepare to implement actionable deliverables so
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Speaker 5: that they will stop disappearing our children, they will start
50:53
Speaker 5: to respect the lives of people of African ancestry just period.
51:00
Speaker 5: Because our shared humanity demands that if one of our
51:07
Speaker 5: sons or daughters defends themselves. Because this isn't the first
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Speaker 5: time that a child of African ancestry defended themselves in
51:18
Speaker 5: inform that led to the death of the predator attacking them,
51:28
Speaker 5: and they were found guilty for defending themselves from a predator.
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Speaker 5: This is not new, this is systemic. And we can scream, well,
51:46
Speaker 5: march perhaps even burned down a few things. And unless
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Speaker 5: we can affect transformative change to a spirited, firm, harmonious
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Speaker 5: and balanced course with actionable deliverables, and to keep saying that,
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Speaker 5: it will not change and we will continue to be
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Speaker 5: in a space of mourning. M ou are inn I
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Speaker 5: ing make sure I don't get misunderstood with that being said,
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Speaker 5: and I would again encourage those that are listening. I
52:31
Speaker 5: am grateful to be able to just share a few
52:35
Speaker 5: reflections commentaries. There's a lot that's going on, a lot
52:40
Speaker 5: that's happening in our space.
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Speaker 6: I'm encouraging.
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Speaker 5: Just as I started, we give thanks and praise to
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Speaker 5: the One most high. We live each day daily for
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Speaker 5: the one most divine, and we shall do it tomorrow
52:54
Speaker 5: just as we do it today. We're doing all that
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Speaker 5: we can to keep that energet that energy that supports
53:05
Speaker 5: what we share. That culture heals humanity. Land is our
53:10
Speaker 5: foundation and spiritual harmony unifies us. And when we speak
53:14
Speaker 5: of ast speaks building a new legacy, we're speaking to
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Speaker 5: a lens because it's not just me.
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Speaker 6: I couldn't do this alone.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't bring all of this to anyone by myself.
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Speaker 5: You might just see me in this space and this
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Speaker 5: virtual platform, But this is through a lens of ancestors
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Speaker 5: upon ancestors, guided and guarded by the Almighty to even
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Speaker 5: give me strength and wisdom and humility to be able
53:50
Speaker 5: to say some of these things that many of our
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Speaker 5: brothers and sisters would like to say and do not
53:57
Speaker 5: have the ability to do so. Speak for the voiceless.
54:02
Speaker 5: We act for those that were shunned and ostracized for
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Speaker 5: acting to uphold and maintain the principles of truth, justice,
54:16
Speaker 5: or do reciprocity balance divine righteousness and harmony? No matter what,
54:21
Speaker 5: how did Malcolm X say it? By any means necessary?
54:28
Speaker 5: How did Marcus Garvey say it? One God, one aim,
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Speaker 5: one destiny? And we in the twenty first century pushed
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Speaker 5: that one Africa. When we're saying Africa, we're speaking of Africa,
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Speaker 5: the twelve million square miles of the continent and everywhere
54:48
Speaker 5: that Africa has spread, which is global. Wherever we go,
54:54
Speaker 5: we bring that same ancestral ancient say grid sovereign tradition.
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Speaker 5: You see the letters, can you hear them? So when
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Speaker 5: we say O speaks and I give thanks again the
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Speaker 5: first and third Thursday of each month here with the
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Speaker 5: Kings and Queens of the airwaves, I'm grateful to the
55:23
Speaker 5: team for the support and the energy. I encourage us
55:29
Speaker 5: to stay vigilant, firm, harmonious, and work on keeping our
55:37
Speaker 5: heart as light as a feather, irrespective of the challenges.
55:45
Speaker 6: That are affecting all of us.
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Speaker 5: Let's look at one another and treat one another with grace,
55:53
Speaker 5: and take some deep breaths and hold sacred space for everyone,
56:01
Speaker 5: and for those that are experiencing great loss, we keep
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Speaker 5: them in prayer with action, and we work towards having
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Speaker 5: transformative solutions that authentically restore our sovereignty in all ways. Again,
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Speaker 5: as we start in peace, we move forward and close
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Speaker 5: tonight's broadcasts with the breath of life and respecting our
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Speaker 5: houses of life. Again, thank you for listening and tuning
56:38
Speaker 5: in with Queen Mother Doctor Transera here on our speaks,
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Speaker 5: building a new legacy and honoring our house of life. Internally,
56:53
Speaker 5: externally and with the guidance of the Almighty devolunte we'll
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Speaker 5: speak again, So blest thanks.
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