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AST SPEAKS PODCAST W/ QUEENMOTHER DR CHEN |LIVE EVERY 1ST & 3rd THURSDAY ON DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Dona Greetings, good night everyone, hotel, greetings of peace, and
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Speaker 1: we are really welcoming you here with the Crew podcast.
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Speaker 1: Our Thursdays broadcast the first and the third Thursday of
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Speaker 1: each month at least until the end of twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five is US Speaks. We get an opportunity to speak
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Speaker 1: of building new legacies and in that conversation, that conversation,
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Speaker 1: that discourse, that reasoning, we get an opportunity to speak
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Speaker 1: about things that are related to culture, healing, arts, technology
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Speaker 1: and spirituality that are grounded in life, inspiration, freedom and education,
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Speaker 1: chats for life. This is your host, Green Mother, doctor
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Speaker 1: Chen Zero and I have an opportunity in this particular
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Speaker 1: podcast broadcast to really navigate through why counsel, knowledge, power
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Speaker 1: and prosperity and really bring another set of perspectives to
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Speaker 1: things that are affecting our women and our men, our children,
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Speaker 1: and our elders and everyone above so below inside and
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Speaker 1: just pushing that energy that allows for us to really
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Speaker 1: highlight energy that brings body, mind, soul, spirit and consciousness
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Speaker 1: into a welcoming space, into a balanced space, into a
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Speaker 1: space of grace. Usually I would have a guest in
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Speaker 1: light of a number of things that have happened. We
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Speaker 1: are very fortunate here in the Virgin Islands to have
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Speaker 1: some weather past, and while it is hurricane season and
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Speaker 1: we usually go through a significant amount of trauma psychologically,
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Speaker 1: physiologically and otherwise, we have been very blessed to be
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Speaker 1: inundated with thunderstorms and rain, some flash flooding in certain areas,
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Speaker 1: but definitely no large damages anything comparative to a Cat
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Speaker 1: five twice over hurricane. It's interesting that this is a
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Speaker 1: time where it is the anniversary of the one of
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Speaker 1: the more devastating hurricanes that affected the Virgin Islands, specifically
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Speaker 1: the Isle of Saint Croix in nineteen eighty nine, Hurricane Hugo.
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Speaker 1: There are actually publications and stories and legends and myths
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Speaker 1: and some real truths on preparedness when it comes to
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Speaker 1: hurricane season, which is every year. You know, hurricane supplication
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Speaker 1: is in June and then there's prayers at the end
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Speaker 1: of the sea in November. So think about that almost
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Speaker 1: a half of the year there's a possibility of the winds,
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Speaker 1: the world winds, the waters, the seas, the oceans curling
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Speaker 1: up and destroying. These are these gatherings of Peruvian aisles
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Speaker 1: and of course, impacting mainland spaces, because we've seen hurricanes
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Speaker 1: have become more intensified over the last decade and are
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Speaker 1: actually going up as far, you know, all the way
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Speaker 1: to the New England area on the east coast. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's just showing the power of nature, the power of
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Speaker 1: the environment, and why it's important that we respect our
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Speaker 1: environment to the best of our ability. And I start there,
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Speaker 1: because what we are also experiencing, you know, give thanks
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Speaker 1: if there was no loss of life, that we're grateful
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Speaker 1: that most persons were able to get home or stay
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Speaker 1: home safely. You know, we were grateful that they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, in select infinite engaging wisdom. You know, authorities
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Speaker 1: were able to give notifications, sometimes a little tardy, but
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Speaker 1: so their parents, you know, families that had children going
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Speaker 1: to school were not you know, taking any undue risk,
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Speaker 1: and especially to go to school to then find out
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Speaker 1: they were going to be closed and that in some
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Speaker 1: even the university had a delayed opening today, and most
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Speaker 1: of the students because they were experiencing, you know, loss
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Speaker 1: of power therefore couldn't use internet, the roads were flooded,
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Speaker 1: or they were certain concerns. You know, many people just
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Speaker 1: took it as a day to be in reflection, and
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Speaker 1: then of course there were those that were sweeping out
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Speaker 1: water from areas that are low lying. So we just
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Speaker 1: want to give thanks and praise for that that we
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Speaker 1: were able to get through that, and that tonight we
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Speaker 1: can actually have a podcast and broadcasts here because a
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Speaker 1: little bit earlier it might not have happened. So I
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Speaker 1: want to thank the crew Podcasts for their patients. A
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Speaker 1: special shout out to our visionary sister Queen Angeline for
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Speaker 1: just being able to make this platform available for those
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Speaker 1: of us that would like to share, you know, So
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Speaker 1: if you have questions, anyone that's listening, anyone that tunes
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Speaker 1: in that would like to oh for any questions, if
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Speaker 1: their particular ideas, I'm going to cover a couple of
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Speaker 1: things that are happening, you know, around this time of
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Speaker 1: the year. It is a wonderful opportunity to look at
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Speaker 1: some of the what people refer to as these international days.
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Speaker 1: And I speak of these international days, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do it through the lens of the United Nations. First. Second,
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Speaker 1: because one of the significant days in the month of September,
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Speaker 1: besides the joy and privilege of being born in this month,
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Speaker 1: on the ninth month, the ninth day. I don't need
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Speaker 1: to tell you the year, but just know that I'm
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Speaker 1: a senior. It was always a time for me to
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Speaker 1: just be in a space of reflection and looking at
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Speaker 1: what was happening in amongst our planetary bodies, what was
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Speaker 1: happening on the Earth, and not getting caught up in distractions,
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Speaker 1: and in doing so it also let me highlight some
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Speaker 1: of the things that took place around West Indian Solidarity Day,
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Speaker 1: which is the first. It coincides with the Labor Day
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Speaker 1: observances in the United States. It's the first Monday of
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Speaker 1: September and in this case this year was the first,
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Speaker 1: and West Indian Solidarity Day is a day that is
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Speaker 1: really acknowledging the harmony, the collective engagement, the common threads
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Speaker 1: amongst Caribbean kinfolk and persons that make the Caribbean their home.
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Speaker 1: And again, going back into the sixties when it became
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Speaker 1: part of the Virgin Islands Code, the observance of West
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Speaker 1: Indian Solidarity for persons that were coming to the Virgin
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Speaker 1: Islands from other parts of the West Indies as it
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Speaker 1: was more commonly referred to them, and having some degree
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Speaker 1: of familihood. So when we're saying solidarity, it wasn't only
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Speaker 1: the political sphere. It was in the social sphere and
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Speaker 1: the spiritual sphere and amongst our families, you know what
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Speaker 1: were the cultural nuances that kept us together and kept
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Speaker 1: us harmonious. This has grown into stronger ties amongst persons
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Speaker 1: residing in the Caribbean as far as south as Surinama
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Speaker 1: and as far north as the Bahamas Bermuda, and it
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Speaker 1: includes those areas that also touch the Caribbean Sea. There's
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Speaker 1: a Caribbeanists in Panama, just as there is in Belize
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Speaker 1: and Honduras, just as it is in Costa Rica, and
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Speaker 1: we'll include our Salvador and Nicaragua. Guatemala sometimes tends to
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Speaker 1: hold into a very indigenous native Ramarindian Mayan kind of vibe. However,
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Speaker 1: there's a presence amongst the Caribbeanists, the movement between island
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Speaker 1: spaces and the movement between coastal areas that shared, and
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Speaker 1: the same thing when it comes to Guyana, the English
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Speaker 1: speaking parts of Venezuela, the Spanish speaking parts of Guian,
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Speaker 1: the French speaking and of course Surinama, the Dutch and
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Speaker 1: Propiamental speaking. I think It's important to know that there's
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Speaker 1: a tie in these spaces because sometimes we overlook the
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Speaker 1: connections and a lot of our brothers and sisters from
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Speaker 1: the forty eight contiguous US are have family. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're one people in many ways. Granted, we have cultural
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Speaker 1: heritage nuances that appear different. However, when we look at
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Speaker 1: the core of our families and begin to celebrate together
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Speaker 1: and harmoniously, we'll find that there are a number of
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Speaker 1: our families that have ties in these other Caribbean, Central
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Speaker 1: and South American spaces. Or either they've migrated from the
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Speaker 1: forty eight Contiguous and we're in the Korean Americas, or
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Speaker 1: they were in the Caribbean Americas and migrated to the
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Speaker 1: forty eight contiguous US. And I'm very clear on some
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Speaker 1: of these things because there's again we talk about with
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Speaker 1: any solidarity day, We've talked about Labor Day, you know,
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Speaker 1: just celebrating the labor, the work, the contributions of persons
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Speaker 1: in these spaces. You know, in there have been resolutions
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Speaker 1: put in place as an international day within the United Nations,
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Speaker 1: the International Day of Charity, which is September fifth, and
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Speaker 1: this is an annual observance and there's many more. You
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Speaker 1: can easily just go to International Day's u and observances
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Speaker 1: and you'll see a host. Almost every day of the
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Speaker 1: year has some resolution, a proclamation, some type of solidarity,
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Speaker 1: some type of an announcement, some type of celebration, or
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Speaker 1: at least a moment of reflection or moment of remembrance
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Speaker 1: or even just an observance. And it's really important, it's
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Speaker 1: really important to observe honor and speak to that. September seventh,
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Speaker 1: and I'm using the ones that we tend to acknowledge
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Speaker 1: and integrate into some of our spaces where we teach,
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Speaker 1: where we learn, where we engage in creative artivism and
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Speaker 1: community activism and other humanitarian efforts. There's the International Literacy
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Speaker 1: Day now that really comes through UNESCO as the United
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Speaker 1: Nations focuses on areas around economics, education, social organizations and structures,
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Speaker 1: and of course you know various elements of culture. And
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Speaker 1: on the eighth of September that is International Literacy Day,
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Speaker 1: and for even inside of organizations international organizations like Rotary International,
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Speaker 1: it extends for the entire month in regards to looking
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Speaker 1: at things around literacy and basic literacy and the importance
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Speaker 1: of literacy What is interesting is even on my day
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Speaker 1: and I claimed this day, the day of my birth,
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Speaker 1: September ninth, is also a time of observance referred to
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Speaker 1: as International Day to Protect Education from a Tech. I
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Speaker 1: found that to be really interesting because sometimes people look
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Speaker 1: at these things and they you know, what does that mean?
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Speaker 1: In other words? And I highlight this quote no child
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Speaker 1: should risk death to learn. And there was a number
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Speaker 1: of reports and I'll share this. In twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: six years after the first observance of the International Day
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Speaker 1: to Protect Education from Attack, violence against education continues to escalate.
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Speaker 1: Between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, there were
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Speaker 1: around six thousand attacks targeting students, educators, and educational institutions.
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Speaker 1: The use of schools for military purposes rose by twenty percent,
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Speaker 1: and over ten thousand students were killed, abducted, arrested, or harmed.
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Speaker 1: Attacks on education and conflict zones have reached alarming levels.
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Speaker 1: Over the past year. There was a forty four percent
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Speaker 1: increase in attacks on schools, leading to the death, abduction,
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Speaker 1: and trauma of thousands of students and teachers. These violations
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Speaker 1: threatened not only individual lives, but the future of entire communities.
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Speaker 1: The United Nations continues to advocate for safe access to education,
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Speaker 1: urging countries to invest in resilient education systems and to
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Speaker 1: fully implement the Safe Schools Declaration. To mark the day,
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Speaker 1: UNESCO and partners have hosted high level events in Geneva
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Speaker 1: under the theme Challenging Narratives Reshaping Action. And I think
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Speaker 1: it's important that we just keep that in context, especially
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Speaker 1: in regard to the acts of violence and outright terrorism
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Speaker 1: being launched on university campuses, Catholic schools, public schools, parochial schools,
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Speaker 1: just places of learning where children learners, teachers, educators, para
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Speaker 1: professionals and everyone in between. Parents, grandparents should feel safe
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Speaker 1: in a learning environment. It should be seen as a
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Speaker 1: sacred space similar to a church, but even churches of
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Speaker 1: being violated, temples, synagogues, matches, places of worship. And it
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Speaker 1: speaks significantly to what is happening with humanity, like, really,
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Speaker 1: what's happening with humanity that persons feel that it is
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Speaker 1: okay or some degree of normalcy to bring such acts
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Speaker 1: of unnecessary violence into spaces of learning or worship or
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Speaker 1: recreation peace. And I share this from the space of
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Speaker 1: highlighting some of these international days just for this particular time.
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Speaker 1: The fifteenth of September is highlighted as an International Day
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Speaker 1: of Democracy, which is definitely challenging when democracy seems to
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Speaker 1: be in a state of flux or imbalance in many
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Speaker 1: parts of the world, because it's no longer it's more
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Speaker 1: like a demonocracy or colonialocracy. You know, we're colonizers and
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Speaker 1: demonic behaviors reign instead of liberty, justice, freedom, peace, tranquility
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Speaker 1: for all right, those wonderful words that are in various songs,
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Speaker 1: pledges of allegiance, constitutional documents, etc. And so this is
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Speaker 1: this particular day, and it's been in place over eighteen.
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Speaker 1: I believed this is the eighteenth theary. It's interesting that
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Speaker 1: the highlight let's again listen to what is coming from
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Speaker 1: the United Nations. Democracy draws its strength from people, their voices,
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Speaker 1: their choices, and their participation in shaping their societies. It
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Speaker 1: flourishes when rights are protected, particularly for those most often
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Speaker 1: left behind. Marking the eighteenth International Day of Democracy twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Budis highlighted quote
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Speaker 1: the courage of people everywhere who are shaping their societies
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Speaker 1: through dialogue, participation, and trust deeming these efforts is more
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Speaker 1: vital than ever at a time when democracy and the
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Speaker 1: rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division and
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Speaker 1: shrinking civic space unquote. And again, the whole idea around
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Speaker 1: this un observance of the International Day of Democracy is
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Speaker 1: grounded in from voice to action, and I think it's
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Speaker 1: important to know that again and I quote, and a
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Speaker 1: time of shrinking civic space and rising disinformation, building, trust,
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Speaker 1: dialogue and shared decision making is more urgent than ever.
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Speaker 1: Rooted in the principle of we the peoples, this event
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Speaker 1: and these events rather aim to show democracy as a
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Speaker 1: living force for agency, hope, and cooperation. And this is
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Speaker 1: wonderful in words and in theory. How do we implement
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Speaker 1: this in a society in a world that is being
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Speaker 1: challenged almost every minute to create imbalance and to continue
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Speaker 1: marginalizing people and to interfere with equality and to sanitize
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Speaker 1: acts of terror and genocidal antagonisms that are happening around
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Speaker 1: the globe. It's difficult, yes, and part of what is
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Speaker 1: also being shared in this they have a number of
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Speaker 1: pieces around why democracy matters. There's like deos. You can
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Speaker 1: go to the United Nations, you go to un dot org,
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Speaker 1: forward slash Democracy Day, and you can easily find information
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Speaker 1: about what are some of the ways in which to
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Speaker 1: protect rights and how do we begin to work together
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Speaker 1: to harmonize some of the methods for quote addressing and
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Speaker 1: using the media regardless of the frontiers that are being exposed.
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Speaker 1: And I paused there for a minute because it's very challenging.
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Speaker 1: Because some of us are able to use certain platforms,
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Speaker 1: they may not reach the millions, but we're hoping that
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Speaker 1: person as we'll begin to share some of the content
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Speaker 1: that is being offered so that our people, our humanity,
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Speaker 1: our women, our men, our grandparents, our parents, our children,
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Speaker 1: and everyone in between begins to restore balance, harmony. There's
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Speaker 1: so much anger. There's so much it's like sulfur everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Persons are just burning with anger. And a lot of
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Speaker 1: times it's because of a lack of information, a lack
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Speaker 1: of understanding, a lack of coordination, not having an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to converse on certain matters before passing judgment on certain matters.
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Speaker 1: We've got persons that overlook one of the more significant observances. Also,
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Speaker 1: because you have World Tourism Day later in the month
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Speaker 1: and we can come back and share that you've got
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Speaker 1: an International Translation Day. Towards the end of the month,
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Speaker 1: you've got World Maritime Date. That's a pretty big day
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Speaker 1: for most persons, especially people that recognize the importance of
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Speaker 1: maritime industries, transporting on the water, sailing, and much much more.
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Speaker 1: There's also International Day of Sign Languages, which is the
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Speaker 1: twenty third of September. I'm gonna take a segment. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pause after sharing a little bit about September twenty first,
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Speaker 1: primarily because it was one of the former officers of
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Speaker 1: one of our local community organizations approaching me, and usually
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Speaker 1: we would do things on September twenty first. What day
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Speaker 1: do you think is September twenty first? I know it
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Speaker 1: sounds like a game show and you win there. The
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Speaker 1: day is International Day of Peace, and around the world,
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Speaker 1: persons actually they do broadcasts, they do peace circles, they
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Speaker 1: create the peace sign. People will do activities. They may
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Speaker 1: actually march in solidarity. Some people do silent walks, some
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Speaker 1: people do candle light visuals to invoke a sense of
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Speaker 1: peace and tranquility for the entire day. You'll see the
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Speaker 1: devil peace with the belief all of that. In terms
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Speaker 1: of upholding human rights, addressing conflict areas with the promotion
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Speaker 1: of peace. And so I will share again I like
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Speaker 1: using what the you and says, so the persons do
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Speaker 1: not think this is like just an individualistic peace and
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Speaker 1: a quote around the world, lives are being ripped apart,
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Speaker 1: childhoods extinguished, and basic human dignity discarded amidst the cruelty
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Speaker 1: and degradations of war. And those are the words of
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Speaker 1: the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gudetis. The theme for
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Speaker 1: the International Day of Peace for twenty twenty five is
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Speaker 1: Act now for a peaceful world. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: put that question out there. What are you doing, what
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Speaker 1: are you willing to do, who are you willing to
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Speaker 1: work with to act now for a peaceful world? And
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Speaker 1: what does that look like now as well as in
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Speaker 1: the field future. The intention is writ to be maintained, sustained,
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Speaker 1: and I'll share these particular references from the United Nations
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Speaker 1: dot org site. In a time of turbulence to Milton uncertainty,
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Speaker 1: it is critical for everyone to take concrete action to
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Speaker 1: mobilize for peace, from peacekeepers on the front lines of conflict,
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Speaker 1: to community members to students in classrooms around the world.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has a role to play. We must speak up
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Speaker 1: against violence, hate, discrimination, and inequality, practice respect, and embrace
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Speaker 1: the diversity of our world. There are many ways to
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Speaker 1: act right now. Spark conversations about the urgent need for
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Speaker 1: understanding non violence and disarmament. Volunteer in your community, Listen
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Speaker 1: to voices different from your own, Challenge discriminatory language in
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Speaker 1: your workplace, report bullying both online and offline, and take
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Speaker 1: the time to verify facts before you post on social media.
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Speaker 1: You can also speak up with your choices, opting to
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Speaker 1: purchase items from socially conscious brands or donating to organizations
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Speaker 1: that promote sustainability in human rights. The United Nations also
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Speaker 1: works in each of these areas, leading global efforts to
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Speaker 1: advanced human rights, fight climate change, and prevent and respond
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Speaker 1: to conflict. So just keep in mind that this is
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Speaker 1: part of the sustainable development goals that you know, what
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Speaker 1: life should look like in the immediate future. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's seventeen of them. We can go through that list
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Speaker 1: in a moment. You know, look at the Peace Building Commission,
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Speaker 1: which actually has this twentieth anniversary this year, and they've
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Speaker 1: focused on addressing inequalities poverty, justice, discrimination, you know again
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Speaker 1: seen as quote potential drivers of violence, and then of
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Speaker 1: course raising health and living standards and ending all forms
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Speaker 1: of discrimination and injustice. This is what is intended, this
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Speaker 1: is what's been projected, this is what's been talked about,
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Speaker 1: and many times when we talk about this Act Now campaign,
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Speaker 1: and again you can go and get They've got information
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Speaker 1: where you've got apps, videos, all type music, videos and
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Speaker 1: formative videos, audio pieces to add into your conversation between
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Speaker 1: not just now, but in general. How do we bring
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Speaker 1: these conversations into fruition in a positive, uplifting way to observe, reflect,
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Speaker 1: honor the International Day of Pace. And I would love
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Speaker 1: to hear some of your ideas of things that you're
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Speaker 1: doing or willing to do, because sometimes we overlook what
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Speaker 1: the goals are. Right, So when we talk about these
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Speaker 1: sustainable development goals, and I always encourage people go to
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Speaker 1: un dot org and just search through. There's so much
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Speaker 1: information there and it's free. Most of that informaming is free,
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Speaker 1: and it's your time and you're getting some well researched
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Speaker 1: information that you can then share in different platforms. And
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Speaker 1: the goals have been really moving in the direction. You
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Speaker 1: can go to that site and it will show you
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Speaker 1: what the seventeen goals are. It then gives you an
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Speaker 1: idea what the targets are, the different events that happen
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Speaker 1: in the thousands, the publications that have come to support
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Speaker 1: each of those goals, and of course the actions, and
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Speaker 1: it's very grounding. So you have of these seventeen sustainable
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Speaker 1: development goals. The first one. Goal one and poverty in
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Speaker 1: all its forms, everywhere. Goal to and hunger. Achieve food
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Speaker 1: security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal three
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Speaker 1: ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at
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Speaker 1: all ages. Goal four ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
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Speaker 1: and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Goal five achieve
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Speaker 1: gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal six
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Speaker 1: ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Speaker 1: Goal seven ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
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Speaker 1: energy for all. Goal eight promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
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Speaker 1: economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Speaker 1: Goal nine build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
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Speaker 1: and foster innovation. Goal ten reduce inequality within among countries.
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Speaker 1: Goal eleven make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient,
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Speaker 1: and sustainable. Goal twelve ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern.
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Speaker 1: Goal thirteen Take urgent action to combat climate change and
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Speaker 1: its impacts. Goal fourteen Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas,
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Speaker 1: and marine resources for sustainable development. Goal fifteen protect, restore,
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Speaker 1: and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests,
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Speaker 1: Combat these certification desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
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Speaker 1: and halt biodiversity laws. I know that's a lot in one.
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Speaker 1: Goal sixteen Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,
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Speaker 1: Provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable
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Speaker 1: and inclusive institutions at all levels. And Goal seventeen strengthen
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Speaker 1: the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for
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Speaker 1: Sustainable Development. And I think it's really powerful because some
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Speaker 1: persons do not always wish to understand it. So I'll
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Speaker 1: go the first as I said. One is no poverty,
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Speaker 1: Two is zero hunger, three good health and well being four,
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Speaker 1: quality education, five, gender equality six, clean water and sanitation seven,
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Speaker 1: affordable and clean energy eight decent work in economic growth nine,
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Speaker 1: industry innovation and Infrastructure, ten reduced inequalities eleven, sustainable cities
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Speaker 1: and communities twelve, responsible consumption and production, thirteen Climate action fourteen,
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Speaker 1: Life below Water, fifteen Life on land sixteen peace, justice
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Speaker 1: and strong institutions, and seventeen partnerships for the goals, and
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Speaker 1: I encourage people look for SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SDGs
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Speaker 1: dot UN dot org or just Google Sustainable Development Goals
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Speaker 1: and that way you can you know this is a
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Speaker 1: working piece of information that has a long lasting, long
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Speaker 1: reaching space. And this goes back to the conversation around
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Speaker 1: act Now for a peaceful world, when persons are not impoverished,
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Speaker 1: have clean water and basic human needs in it, the
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Speaker 1: energy of war lessons, violence decreases significantly and you can
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Speaker 1: restore a sense of what is that word peace? Not
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Speaker 1: p I E c E, but p E ace That peace,
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Speaker 1: that tranquility that allows for humans to be comfortable with
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Speaker 1: the camaraderie and the harmony and the tranquility and the
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Speaker 1: balance and the honoring of respecting one another even when
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Speaker 1: we differ on certain perspectives. The International Day of Peace
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Speaker 1: has its origins from the definitely from the back in
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Speaker 1: the day. It was formalized after many of the civil
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Speaker 1: rights human rights movements, marches efforts, and it was lablished
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Speaker 1: by the United Nations General Assembly through lobbying in the
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Speaker 1: late seventies, but formalized in eighty one, and then in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and one they chose to unanimously vote and
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Speaker 1: designate a day as a period of non violence and ceasefire.
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Speaker 1: Just need to get that, and it would be wonderful
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Speaker 1: if on September twenty first, twenty twenty five, there was
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Speaker 1: a global nonviolence environment and a ceasefire. I want us
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Speaker 1: to think on where I would go with this, and
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Speaker 1: most of the time I say things from the space
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Speaker 1: of my aunt as truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine
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Speaker 1: righteousness and harmonies will not be any different. The imbalances
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Speaker 1: that are have created warfare that has caused the lives
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Speaker 1: of tens of thousands. This need for people to get
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Speaker 1: that tens of thousands in Palestine by whoever's responsible. We could,
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Speaker 1: you know, some Israelis, but there's other alliances with Israel,
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Speaker 1: the State of Israel that allow that. And it's time
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Speaker 1: and people are speaking and people are marching, and there
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Speaker 1: should be no interference in providing humanitarian support for the survivors.
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Speaker 1: That should happen before the twenty first, but at least
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Speaker 1: by the twenty first on the International Day of Feast.
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Speaker 1: Persons that claim any form of humanity are encouraged to
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Speaker 1: take action in that regard. I pause because sometimes when
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Speaker 1: you start to say these things, you have to be
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Speaker 1: very mindful, because this too can be perceived and shared
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Speaker 1: in a way that persons do not understand respect or
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Speaker 1: honor different views regarding what is taking place in Palestine,
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Speaker 1: what's taking place in Haiti, tensional warfare for hundreds of years,
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Speaker 1: that is continued, that his rap and stripped at the
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Speaker 1: very core of humanity for this independent Black African lead
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Speaker 1: country in the middle of the Caribbean space on the
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Speaker 1: smaller component of its former Ispanola, San Dominguez, Kiskaya, all
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Speaker 1: the names you call it, and to create what appears
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Speaker 1: to be gang land style warfare but fed by trained
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Speaker 1: mercenaries and weaponry that comes from some of these same
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Speaker 1: other countries, whether it's Israel, the US. There needs to
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Speaker 1: be a day of peace, days of peace. We need
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Speaker 1: to just have the day of peace and then continues.
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Speaker 1: There needs to be you know all of this conflict resolution,
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Speaker 1: negotiation management needs to be implemented so that persons can
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Speaker 1: restore balance and harmony in these spaces. We encourage the
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Speaker 1: United States military to remove its military forces submarines included
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Speaker 1: from within the Caribbean space, claiming to look for because
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Speaker 1: it started with drug trafficking, and the research has clearly
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Speaker 1: proven and not just lay persons research or commentary, but
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Speaker 1: professional vetted research has made it clear that Venezuela is
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Speaker 1: not the source of drug trafficking and production. And persons
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Speaker 1: need to look at the other countries, inclusive of places
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Speaker 1: like Ecuador in other parts of South America, as well
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Speaker 1: as manufacturing resource and leaders in the forty eight contiguous US.
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Speaker 1: And we need to be real careful on the interference
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Speaker 1: of the Caribbean as the Zona peace. Not to say
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Speaker 1: that there are issues in the Caribbean, but when was
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Speaker 1: the last time persons recall seeing warfare in the Caribbean spaces.
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Speaker 1: I want you to ponder on that. And yes, we
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Speaker 1: could jump to the nineteen eighties and speak of the
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Speaker 1: US invasion in Grenada supposed to save the people from
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Speaker 1: Marxists and communists Leninists, and it ended up leading into
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Speaker 1: an assassination of an entire administration that were elected by
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Speaker 1: the people of Grenade at the time. We don't need
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Speaker 1: a recurrence of that in the region of the Caribbean,
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Speaker 1: and there has to be a more professional, more humane
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Speaker 1: approach of how you engage in this region. We do
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Speaker 1: not need a Palestine in the Caribbean. We do not
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Speaker 1: need a Sudan in the Caribbean. We do not need
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Speaker 1: a Congo in a Caribbean. And we definitely have been
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Speaker 1: speaking against the chaos and Haiti in the Caribbean. These
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Speaker 1: embargoes against q and other countries has been you know, misinformation.
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Speaker 1: Listen to what was just said in what we met
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Speaker 1: earlier from the UN. It's misinformation. Persons are using misinformation
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Speaker 1: as an excuse to create warfare, to create another industry,
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Speaker 1: to become trillionaires, its billionairesm isn't enough, and it's costing
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Speaker 1: the lives of innocent children, women, men, elders, and some
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Speaker 1: of these survivors will be so traumatized that the in
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Speaker 1: the warfare syndrome piece is going to be innate and
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Speaker 1: continue and we won't have peace. Now that I've said
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Speaker 1: that part, I'm going to highlight one more piece before
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Speaker 1: we close tonight, and I want to thank those of
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Speaker 1: you that have joined in greeting's sister, Queen Patrice. I
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Speaker 1: am grateful to have persons that will at least share reflections.
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Speaker 1: There's things that are said that people don't understand. Let
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Speaker 1: us share and reason together so that we can have
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Speaker 1: a higher form of awareness together, that we can learn
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Speaker 1: how to speak and reason without blowing everybody up off
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Speaker 1: the planet, because nature can do that for us. If
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Speaker 1: that's what the cause is. And those persons moving in
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Speaker 1: that accord is nothing godly, nothing spiritually grounding, and just
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Speaker 1: promoting more and more war and more war. You can
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Speaker 1: annihilate everybody in m I think you can, but just
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Speaker 1: that spark of spirit will maintain. And we really need
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Speaker 1: to do This is time to do something different. We
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Speaker 1: have persons that speak of conflict resolution until it grows
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Speaker 1: out the side of their ears, and now we have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for conflict resolution and engagement in exchange. Let's
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Speaker 1: do that. Stop going after and fostering more warfare. This
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Speaker 1: is Venezuelan Guyanese issue. People should understand who's going to
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Speaker 1: make the money at the end of the day, and
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Speaker 1: it needs to be addressed differently. So with that for
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Speaker 1: tonight and the next time that we get together, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to having more of you, you know, ask
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Speaker 1: a from encourage them to come and engage with us.
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Speaker 1: You know, October two and sixteenth will be our broadcast
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Speaker 1: October and we'll get an opportunity to cover some other pieces.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot happening in the Caribbean regions as well
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Speaker 1: as throughout the Americas and the world, and we send
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Speaker 1: our prayers of strength and harmony to the families that
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Speaker 1: are experiencing laws. When you hear the word lynching in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, for some of us, it's all too familiar,
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Speaker 1: especially in Mississippi, and so we send prayers, comforting, healing
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Speaker 1: heart prayers that justice will be served and that the
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Speaker 1: truth will come to light, and that all responsible will
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Speaker 1: be addressed handled in the way that it needs to
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Speaker 1: be addressed and handled. Because we're speaking of things that
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Speaker 1: are happening on university campuses or schools, you know, we
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Speaker 1: send in Minnesota, we'd spend the whole podcast broadcasts giving
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Speaker 1: prayers of strength and healing heart mercies because some people
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Speaker 1: can't contain their mental imbalance or their antagonisms or their
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Speaker 1: genocidal terrorist behaviors to even have a different opinion or
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Speaker 1: to just pop off here we call it just lose
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Speaker 1: their mind. Yeah, So we're asking take some time, those
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Speaker 1: that are listening, that are tuning in, that are here,
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Speaker 1: share with us. What are things that are happening in
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Speaker 1: your community that restore peace? What should September twenty first
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Speaker 1: and every day of the year look like when we
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Speaker 1: speak of International Day of Peace? How do we maintain ceasefire?
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Speaker 1: How do we create a more humane environment wherever you are,
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Speaker 1: wherever we are, so that it can be sustained, maintained
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Speaker 1: and help us to build new legacy with that. I
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Speaker 1: say thank you very much for joining us here at
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Speaker 1: OZ Speaks. There's so much to talk about. Special shout
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Speaker 1: out to the African Union and the care Com Summit
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Speaker 1: that was held in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia from September
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Speaker 1: sixth to seventh, followed with the Climate Change Convening, proceeded
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Speaker 1: with a number of diaspora events. I'm hoping to have
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Speaker 1: some of the delegates that participated to join us in
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Speaker 1: October to give us an update and share some of
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Speaker 1: that footage that impacts all of us in the diaspora,
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Speaker 1: as we're speaking truth as power around social justice, self determination, independence, reparations.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that wasn't again reparation so that we
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Speaker 1: can repair the damage is done internally as well as
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Speaker 1: externally within our communities. Here coming from the Caribbean civilization spaces,
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Speaker 1: we're asking for it to be global true. With that,
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Speaker 1: we know that culture heals humanity. Land is our foundation
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Speaker 1: and spiritual harmony unifies us. We encourage you to share
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Speaker 1: with us. Speaks on the first and third Thursday, eight
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Speaker 1: pm here with the Crew podcasts and again this has
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Speaker 1: been your host for this evening. Next time, who knows,
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Speaker 1: you never know who might join me. This is Queen Mother,
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Speaker 1: doctor chians Err and I look forward to the next time.
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Speaker 1: Until then, do your best to say focused, keep your
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Speaker 1: energy expansive and wide, draw in that love, that healing
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Speaker 1: heart mercies. At the same time, restore the balance so
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Speaker 1: that the principles of my aunt truth, just the sort
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Speaker 1: of reciprocity balanced, divine righteousness and harmony remain in the balance.
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Speaker 1: Peace Quartette, good night,