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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: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
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Speaker 1: show starts in ten nine eight, seven, six, five, four
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Speaker 1: three two one go.
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Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome. We're back. We're actually back. We navigated
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Speaker 2: through some of our technological issues. It was something pretty
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Speaker 2: minor and we're grateful again. A special shout out to
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Speaker 2: none other than visionary Queen Angela for just making my
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Speaker 2: return to the Kings and Queens at the airwaves really powerful.
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Speaker 2: This is Queen Mother Doctor Chinsera. My broadcast really focuses
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Speaker 2: on our speaks, building a new legacy and really bringing
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Speaker 2: some different highlights of not just news, but just positive,
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Speaker 2: uplifting things in the midst of chaos that is impacting
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Speaker 2: all of us. So I'd like to always start the
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Speaker 2: way that we have been accustomed to starting. Just take
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Speaker 2: a really deep breath and hold it for account. Today
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Speaker 2: is really powerful because there's a lot of energy in
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Speaker 2: our universe. Let that breath out. This is a great
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Speaker 2: time for persons to spend quality engagement with family, loved ones, friends,
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Speaker 2: those that authentically support and how some energetic love vibes
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Speaker 2: for how you live, how you pray, how you worship,
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Speaker 2: how you fellowship, how you are engaged in recreation, how
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Speaker 2: you breathe, how you dance, how you sing, how you write,
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Speaker 2: and on the writing part, a special shout out to
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Speaker 2: our visionary sister Queen Angela for just making an opportunity
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Speaker 2: for our poets in the Poets Unite and Theology for
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Volume one be featured on Times Square
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Speaker 2: billboard in New York. So April first might have been
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Speaker 2: able fools to the rest of the world, but it
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Speaker 2: was a wonderful opportunity to really feature several of the
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Speaker 2: poets that are published in the Inspiring Authors magazine Experience,
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Speaker 2: and I just wanted to highlight that. And then they
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Speaker 2: are persons from that collection of writers, published authors that
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Speaker 2: have books forthcoming, and so just keep an eye on
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Speaker 2: what is taking place to really offer that support. I'm
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Speaker 2: always saying to persons, we have a lot of resources.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot of persons with skills, talents and
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Speaker 2: expertise that many times goes unnoticed, underfunded, not just unfunded.
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Speaker 2: It's not that we don't have any resource, but it's underfunded.
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Speaker 2: And so within all of the persons that are within
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Speaker 2: airshot of this particular message, I'm encouraging you and I'm
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Speaker 2: saying it from a space in the middle of a
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Speaker 2: Caribbean and see at a time that there's a lot
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Speaker 2: happening in an earthplane. And I'm encouraging persons to really
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Speaker 2: be part of the solution, be part of the energy
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Speaker 2: that really allows for us to work together, to share
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Speaker 2: experiences together, to highlight of variety. It's just powerful. This
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Speaker 2: is a great time. I think too that I'd like
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Speaker 2: to send a special shout out to the brothers and
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Speaker 2: sisters who have observed various significant international days. There's been
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Speaker 2: a lot of activity happening through the United Nations, and
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Speaker 2: I say this from a space of the recent announcements
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Speaker 2: of the various adoptions on March twenty fifth, and I
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Speaker 2: think that for those persons that may not be as
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Speaker 2: aware that March twenty fifth, annually, through a General Assembly
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Speaker 2: resolution in previous years, is marked as the International Day
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Speaker 2: of Remembrance of the victims of slavery and the Transatlantic
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Speaker 2: Slave trade, a moment of silence. And here we are
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Speaker 2: a week and one day later, and there were several significant,
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Speaker 2: significant happenings on that particular day. At least this year,
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Speaker 2: this was a time where the UN General Assembly convene,
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Speaker 2: they honored victims, they engaged with having speak us from
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Speaker 2: a wide range of spaces. You know, of course the
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Speaker 2: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. There was also General Assembly
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Speaker 2: Member Anna Anna Alina Beerbalk there, and there were others.
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Speaker 2: There was the significant presentation by the Honorable President of
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Speaker 2: the Republic of Godda, John Mohammad, where there was a
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Speaker 2: significant reading of the proclamation. At this point, it's just
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Speaker 2: like a it's deeper than that in regard to the
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Speaker 2: Transatlantic slave trade being the greatest crime against humanity, and
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Speaker 2: especially because of its influence on the enslaved, the slavers,
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Speaker 2: everyone above, below and on all sides. It impacted the
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Speaker 2: entire global community, and it definitely shifted industry and development
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Speaker 2: and the essence of humanity and the survivability and resilience thereof.
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Speaker 2: So there's more to share on that. There's other persons
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Speaker 2: that I know will speak to that and forthcoming pieces.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important to know that there was a
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Speaker 2: reparations debate and discussion in regard to repairing the damage
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Speaker 2: is done to all impacted by the enslavement. What some
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Speaker 2: persons refer to in this capacity the Transatlantic slave trade.
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Speaker 2: You'll hear persons use more empowering decolonialized terms and referencing
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Speaker 2: it as the enslavement trade and even elevating to what
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Speaker 2: really took place that we know is trafficking, which just
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Speaker 2: brings the essence of the dehumanizing elements and the degrading elements,
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Speaker 2: the sadistic elements, the masochistic elements, and the psychological damages
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Speaker 2: that are still being worked through the layer of trauma
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Speaker 2: from that whole experience. And this is also a time
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Speaker 2: where there was a significant layer of discussion around other
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Speaker 2: aspects of human rights that are being violated and being
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Speaker 2: publichly but publicly and blatantly violated around the globe. The
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Speaker 2: other part that was part of that deep dive, if
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Speaker 2: you would like to look at that is to highlight
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Speaker 2: that this particular resolution which one voted upon, there was
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty three nations that voted in favor
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Speaker 2: of this resolution, hence seeing the enslavement trafficking of African
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Speaker 2: people and all that it impacted as the gravest crime
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Speaker 2: against humanity, and there were three nations that said no. However,
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Speaker 2: there were more than fifty nations that abstained and that
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Speaker 2: brings another layer of conversation on how we begin to
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Speaker 2: highlight the pieces. So I want to just share this
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Speaker 2: particular segment today we come together in solemn solidarity to
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Speaker 2: affirm truth and pursue a route to healing and reparative justice.
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Speaker 2: And this is coming from the presentation so eloquently delivered
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Speaker 2: by God as President John, his Excellency John Dremani Muhamma.
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Speaker 2: And again this is with him presenting this before there
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Speaker 2: was a vote on behalf of the fifty four member
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Speaker 2: African Group, which is the largest regional block in the UN.
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Speaker 2: Let's just be very clear. So there was conversations on quote,
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Speaker 2: the importance of looking at the force nature of generations
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Speaker 2: upon generations of exploitation. I think it's important that these
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Speaker 2: were some of the things that or highlighted that this
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Speaker 2: trafficking quote of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of
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Speaker 2: Africans as the gravest crime against humanity by reason of
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Speaker 2: the definitive break in world history, scale duration, systemic nature, brutality,
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Speaker 2: and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of
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Speaker 2: all people through racialized regimes of labor, property, and capital. Unquote.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important to just and I encourage persons
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Speaker 2: please look at news dot un dot org and you
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Speaker 2: can begin to see some of the material that I'm
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Speaker 2: even sharing from because it was many times when people
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Speaker 2: talk about the slave trade, it becomes quote unacknowledged, unspoken,
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Speaker 2: and unaddressed unquote. I think it's important to persons remember
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Speaker 2: some of these things because when we speak of the
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Speaker 2: energy that's consuming the earth right now, peace, tranquility, balance,
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Speaker 2: divine righteousness, harmony, propriety, just full harmony are difficult, but
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Speaker 2: they're essential for the human family, human society, civilization to thrive.
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Speaker 2: And many times persons will stay like in their bubble.
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Speaker 2: And as long as it doesn't affect me, I don't
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Speaker 2: need to speak on it. But it's affecting all of
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Speaker 2: us in different degrees. I think it's also important. There's
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Speaker 2: a quote on the un Sight by Esther Phillips, first
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Speaker 2: poet Lauria of Barbados, and the quote reads as follows,
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Speaker 2: there are spirits of the victims of slavery present in
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Speaker 2: this room at this moment, and they are listening for
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Speaker 2: one word only justice unquote. Those are the types of
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Speaker 2: energies that are surrounding that. And as I said earlier,
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Speaker 2: we're going to speak to some of this. You know,
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Speaker 2: we know that there's a large conversation regarding you know,
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Speaker 2: how we begin to have these conversations so that things
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Speaker 2: are shared in a form that allows for us to
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Speaker 2: move forward and not stay grounded and hung up on
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Speaker 2: the hatred level, or on the discord level, or on
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Speaker 2: the divisive space. So a lot of times when these
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Speaker 2: different resolutions, proclamations and sharings are offered and provided, it's
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Speaker 2: very interesting to see that it also breeds a very
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Speaker 2: open ended types of conversation when we talk about what
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Speaker 2: is happening in the United Nations, that even when they
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Speaker 2: support a resolution as powerful as this one, there's still
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Speaker 2: questions on what are the next steps, and there's still
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Speaker 2: a request to do more studies and feasibility reports and
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Speaker 2: research and secure more data for something that is very
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Speaker 2: clear commanding of resolution, reconciliation, reparatory justice, and outright reparations
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Speaker 2: most immediately, and not the reparations that persons may focus
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Speaker 2: on just a money or a paper money exchange, but
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Speaker 2: on equity and authentic equality in our industries, in the
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Speaker 2: minding of our resources, in the technology and access to
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Speaker 2: technology in space, inside the corridor earth, surrounding the Earth,
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Speaker 2: in the water into perpetuity, education that is equitable, and
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Speaker 2: it is in the form that is most advantageous for
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Speaker 2: our human family to authentically thrive. For agriculture, because all
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Speaker 2: of this will make absolutely no significant mark and our
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Speaker 2: ability to thrive if we do not have food and
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Speaker 2: we do not address food sovereignty, food security, agritourism that
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Speaker 2: is pro human, agri business that is pro human, and
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Speaker 2: of course animals, minerals, etc. This is a time where
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Speaker 2: we should be looking at our marine spaces as well
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Speaker 2: as our terrestrial spaces as well as our space above
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Speaker 2: and surrounding us to make sure that we are addressing
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Speaker 2: whether it's whichever term works for you, is what I'll encourage.
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Speaker 2: If you don't believe that the global community is warming,
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Speaker 2: touch the fire again, what is transpiring with climate change?
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Speaker 2: And what are some of the environmental transitions that each
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Speaker 2: and every one of us need to be engaged in.
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Speaker 2: To make sure that it's like a catchy song phrase,
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Speaker 2: but it's a serious matter. Stay alive by keeping it
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Speaker 2: below one point five right, persons hear this in terms
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Speaker 2: of the temperature of the Earth and that wach surrounds
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Speaker 2: us clean Walter, So that would starts sounding like I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And I
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Speaker 2: always expressed the persons that that's something that I noticed
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Speaker 2: that even some of our young minds, they didn't know
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Speaker 2: that there was an actual initiative moving this agenda into
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Speaker 2: twenty thirty, which is quite close, you know, as quiet
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Speaker 2: as it's kept, you know, twenty thirty is right there,
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Speaker 2: it's coming right in these times, it's important that persons
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Speaker 2: are aware of the seventeen goals that make up the
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Speaker 2: United Nations Department of Beginning and Social Affairs specific to
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Speaker 2: sustainable development, And just for the purposes of our podcast
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Speaker 2: tonight and just being able to share at a time
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Speaker 2: where persons are really in a deep space of reflection
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Speaker 2: around the globe, around the energy of this moon, this
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Speaker 2: full moon that a couple days ago was coming in
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Speaker 2: with that quote pink moon and that wonderful astronomical support
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Speaker 2: system that persons forget. And I'm not speaking of astrology.
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the human interpretation of what's happening
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Speaker 2: with the planets. I'm speaking of the scientific aspect of
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Speaker 2: what is taking place, and how our bodies that are
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Speaker 2: made up of more than seventy percent of water actually
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Speaker 2: are engaged in, are actually experiencing, are actually moving towards
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Speaker 2: I think it's important that we bring some of this
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Speaker 2: conversation to fruition around this particular time. So weather persons
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Speaker 2: are honoring and observing Paysock passover. Weather persons are on
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Speaker 2: the eve of what many refer here in the Caribbean,
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Speaker 2: it's Holy Thursday. They'll be good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday,
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Speaker 2: and nothing is complete until after Eastern Monday. And here
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Speaker 2: on the Isle of Saint Croix, not all, but it's
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Speaker 2: an Eastern tradition amongst the families that practice one of
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Speaker 2: the most significant holy times in the Christian faith. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: around this time of the year, and families go in,
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Speaker 2: they camp, and they stay by the scene, and yes,
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Speaker 2: they recreate together. Some people make it a tad more modern,
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Speaker 2: but most of the intention is to be away from
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Speaker 2: the mundane nature of regular life and to just really
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Speaker 2: be in a space of spiritual upliftment. For some they fast,
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Speaker 2: some persons various ministries may use it as a time
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Speaker 2: for heightening baptisms. Some persons will equate it to what
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Speaker 2: you see in the African American community community in the
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Speaker 2: forty eight contiguous US as a ring shout and persons
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Speaker 2: will fellowship and sing songs and praise and pray together
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Speaker 2: around this time of the year. It's not all and
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Speaker 2: everybody has their different way of engaging. This is also
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Speaker 2: a time amongst the Rastafari faith and movement, and let
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Speaker 2: me be very quick the Rastafari traditions and its more
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Speaker 2: ancestral ancient way. It's a time where there's honor for
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Speaker 2: the earthstrong evibration, birthening time of Her Imperial Majesty Empress
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Speaker 2: men and Asphalt, the wife consort of His Imperial Majesty
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Speaker 2: Emperor Hailey Selassia, the first of Itiopia. So there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of different and then there's other observances in other
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Speaker 2: ethnic spaces, other communities. So I just encouraging persons to
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Speaker 2: just be aware of, like if you're feeling things. This
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Speaker 2: is also a time of what people refer to as
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Speaker 2: the ascension, also the time of betrayal, also the time
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Speaker 2: of death of the illuminated Christ. Did one right, and
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Speaker 2: it's also a time of resurrection, So it's really important
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Speaker 2: that we at least recognize not everybody's Christian, not everybody's
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Speaker 2: Jewish or practicing some form of Judaism. Not everyone really
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Speaker 2: understood a couple of weeks back, the ad or the
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Speaker 2: closing I shouldn't say closing, but the culmination of Ramadan
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Speaker 2: amongst the Muslims around the world, or those that were
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Speaker 2: in haj doing that pilgrimage to their holy spaces and
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Speaker 2: mecro I just think it's important that we remember that
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that are happening, and this
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Speaker 2: is all happening at the same time that there's some chaos.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the chaos later. For the purposes of
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Speaker 2: this gathering, just now amongst us, and especially since this
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Speaker 2: is my return after having some technical issues, I like
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Speaker 2: to encourage persons to go to the SDGs s is
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Speaker 2: in Sustainable das in Development Gas and Goals SYS and
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Speaker 2: Social so sd G s dot un dot org and
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Speaker 2: that'll take you to the website specifically shares details on
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Speaker 2: the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, and I'll just go through
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Speaker 2: them briefly. I'm not going to read all of the
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Speaker 2: particular information because you'll be able to see what are
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Speaker 2: some of their targets. What are some of the events
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Speaker 2: that have already taken place globally. What are some publications?
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Speaker 2: Most of their publications are available for free, and these
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Speaker 2: are things that are good tools to use to inform, persuade,
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Speaker 2: have a call to action, and engage your respective community.
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Speaker 2: Because each one teach one as each one heals one.
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Speaker 2: And if all of us spend time, if we all
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Speaker 2: take a little bit of time, let's just say we
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Speaker 2: took seventeen days and in each of our conversations at work,
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Speaker 2: at school, and our places of worship and our places
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Speaker 2: of recreation and our social circles, we just talked about
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Speaker 2: some of these. Over the course of time, more people
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Speaker 2: will be at least aware that there are these sustainable
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Speaker 2: development goals that are intended to really shift and improve
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Speaker 2: the quality of life so that our human civilization, our families,
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Speaker 2: our societies, our communities, our nations can actually thrive as
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Speaker 2: well as survive in the midst of many things changing
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Speaker 2: in our environment. The first one is Goal one is
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Speaker 2: end poverty in all its forms everywhere, so essentially no poverty.
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Speaker 2: Goal IO is zero hunger, n hunger, achieve food security
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Speaker 2: and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal three Good
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Speaker 2: Health and well Being ensure healthy lives and promote well
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Speaker 2: being for all at all ages. Goal for Quality Education
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Speaker 2: enshure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
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Speaker 2: opportunities for all. Goal five Gender Equality, achieve gender equality
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Speaker 2: and empower all women and girls. Goal six Clean Water
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Speaker 2: and Sanitation. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
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Speaker 2: sanitation for all. Goal seven affordable and clean energy. I
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Speaker 2: want to pause on that one to bring this home
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Speaker 2: for where I sit in an island community in the
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Speaker 2: Caribbean under this sovereign relation, federal relation with the United
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Speaker 2: States of America, the Virgin Islands of the United States,
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Speaker 2: while I sit on the Isle of Saint Croix, and
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Speaker 2: our interruptions with electricity and hence water while we're surrounded
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Speaker 2: by the Caribbean Sea has been minimal compared to our
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Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, our families, our businesses, our schools on
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Speaker 2: our sister islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John. In
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Speaker 2: some instances over the last few weeks, Saint John, while
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Speaker 2: there is no hurricane, there are no earthquakes, no storms
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Speaker 2: at this time. Give thanks, but persons are without power
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Speaker 2: for more than eighteen hours at a time. So that's
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Speaker 2: creating a lot of imbalance, and especially during this time
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Speaker 2: of whole engagement, is just putting a lot of stressors
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Speaker 2: on people, especially our elders and especially our home bound elders,
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Speaker 2: and especially those that have special needs that are not
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Speaker 2: fully aware of what is taking place except that the
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Speaker 2: power goes off, the water doesn't run, the pump doesn't happen.
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Speaker 2: All the food that you purchase is spoiling because there's
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Speaker 2: no refrigeration, no power for refrigeration. Pause. So keep us
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Speaker 2: in prayer so that something will give. Because we do
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Speaker 2: have an entity, the Water and Power Authority, that obviously
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Speaker 2: needs global support. I'm putting that out there. Whose VECs
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Speaker 2: get over it. Sustainable Development Goals seven Affordable and clean
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Speaker 2: energy and sure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
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Speaker 2: energy for all. Goal eight Decent work and Economic Growth.
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Speaker 2: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, Full and productive
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Speaker 2: employment and decent work for all. Goal nine Industry Innovation
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Speaker 2: and Infrastructure. Build resilient infrastructure, Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
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Speaker 2: and foster innovation. Goal ten reduced in equalities, reduce inequalities
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Speaker 2: within and among countries. Goal eleven Sustainable Cities and Communities.
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Speaker 2: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
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Speaker 2: Goal twelve Responsible Consumption and Production. Ensure sustainable consumption and
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Speaker 2: production patterns. Goal thirteen Climate Action. Take urgent action to
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Speaker 2: combat climate change and its impacts. Goal fourteen Life below Water.
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Speaker 2: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
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Speaker 2: for sustainable development. Goal fifteen Life on Land, Protect, restore,
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Speaker 2: and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests,
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Speaker 2: combat the certification and halt and reverse land degradation and
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Speaker 2: halt biodiversity laws. Goal sixteen Peace, Justice and strong institutions.
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Speaker 2: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, Provide access
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Speaker 2: to justice for all, and build effective, accountable and inclusive
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Speaker 2: institutions at all levels. Goal seventeen Partnerships for the goals
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Speaker 2: strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership
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Speaker 2: for Sustainable Development. Again, these are the sustainable development goals.
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Speaker 2: You can easily go to SDGs dot UN dot org
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Speaker 2: and review and see them. I'm giving just an overview
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Speaker 2: because i can imagine if it was like you will
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Speaker 2: win ten million dollars if you can list all seventeen
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Speaker 2: sustainable development goals, I would not win the money. I
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Speaker 2: would be able to give you one idea of what
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Speaker 2: they are because I can remember, like several of them.
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Speaker 2: We always talk about no poverty, We always speak about
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Speaker 2: clean walter, we always speak about gender equity, and there's
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Speaker 2: several others. You know, we always talk about not always
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Speaker 2: we should quality education. So if we can just good
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Speaker 2: health and wellbeing. These are things that we're saying all
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Speaker 2: the time, we just don't have them in this particular order.
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Speaker 2: So here's an opportunity. Persons can get downloads of flyers,
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Speaker 2: of guidelines, of workshops that they can do powerpoints, short videos,
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Speaker 2: long videos, informative videos, persuasive videos that help to establish
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Speaker 2: our quote twenty thirty agenda for sustainable development. And we're
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Speaker 2: talking about the entire globe. And this was adopted since
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, and here we are in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: and many of us are still not that informed in
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Speaker 2: regard to I don't want to quote. This provides a
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Speaker 2: shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.
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Speaker 2: Now and into the future. And the whole idea is
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Speaker 2: how you can reduce inequities, how do you spur economic growth.
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Speaker 2: There's earth summits that have been conducted. This is tied
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Speaker 2: to the Millennial Development Goals to reduce extreme poverty. And
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Speaker 2: mind you, this was done so that people from two
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Speaker 2: thousand were saying that in fifteen years they were going
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Speaker 2: to reduce extreme poverty. So there's more work to be done.
31:35
Speaker 2: And then this Sustainable Development Goals framework was established in
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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen and here we are eleven years later, and
31:45
Speaker 2: there's more work to be done. So I share those
31:48
Speaker 2: things just as contexts for some of the other areas
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Speaker 2: that I would like to highlight tonight. And there's been
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Speaker 2: a number of brothers and sisters that are also involved.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important to know that there are still needs.
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Speaker 2: Let me be more specific, there's still support and resources
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Speaker 2: that are essential for our brothers and sisters that have
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Speaker 2: shown the type of resilience post hurricanes of twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five in spaces like Jamaica in other parts of the
32:25
Speaker 2: Caribbean spaces. It's very important that we keep our eyes
32:29
Speaker 2: very close on the support that was withheld. But it's
32:35
Speaker 2: now getting into our neighboring isles of Cuba. It's important
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Speaker 2: that we're seeing efforts. People tend to talk about the
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Speaker 2: news only like one thing at a time, but we
32:47
Speaker 2: have to continue to send energy and support and prayers
32:50
Speaker 2: in action to Haiti. Right there are things that are
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Speaker 2: happening in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Guyana, Surinama, in French Guiana,
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Speaker 2: and all through Central and South America. We need to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we keep our eyes on a course.
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Speaker 2: Our brothers and sisters in the forty eight contiguous US
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Speaker 2: and Hawaii and Alaska and the territories that are still
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Speaker 2: operated as colonial entities under the sovereignship of the US
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Speaker 2: need to be mindful of what is taking place, not
33:28
Speaker 2: just in the distractions and extremisms, but what are the
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Speaker 2: things that we could do to make sure that we
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Speaker 2: have clean water, that we have safety in our shelter,
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Speaker 2: that we are able to have some degree of transport
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Speaker 2: to get to where we have to get our food,
33:49
Speaker 2: to where we have to work to where we have
33:52
Speaker 2: to engage in worship, and much more, making sure that
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Speaker 2: we have hm hm peace. How do we do that
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Speaker 2: and where are we willing? What are we willing to
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Speaker 2: do together. So I say that part on the what
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Speaker 2: are we willing to do? To do this together? Through
34:14
Speaker 2: a lens of you know, there's a number of organizations
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Speaker 2: that are doing humanitarian work to support People are bringing oil,
34:25
Speaker 2: you know, gas, you know, diesel, et cetera. People are
34:29
Speaker 2: bringing solar resources. You know, how are we how do
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Speaker 2: we handle our deficiencies and energy around the globe? And
34:38
Speaker 2: why is it that some nations have all the wealth
34:42
Speaker 2: and other nations are still impoverished at a time like this?
34:48
Speaker 2: And and I think too that it's important to speak
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Speaker 2: about these particular areas. There are opportunities for us to
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Speaker 2: speak about what are the good elements that are happening
35:13
Speaker 2: around the globe. So I want to send a I
35:16
Speaker 2: keep coming back to this because I was really pleased
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Speaker 2: to see that there was an opportunity for a variety
35:24
Speaker 2: Let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
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Speaker 2: including our visionary sister Queen Angela. Just being on a
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Speaker 2: New York Times billboard. A lot of my friends because
35:41
Speaker 2: the minute they saw on April first, I will be
35:44
Speaker 2: on the New York City Times Square Billboard. My friends
35:47
Speaker 2: thought that it was an April fool's joke, so I
35:50
Speaker 2: just want to know that some of them didn't even
35:52
Speaker 2: go and look. I had to like show them my
35:54
Speaker 2: little video because I missed. I missed all but three
35:57
Speaker 2: hours because I was at work, and I just want
36:01
Speaker 2: to thank you and thank everyone that was able to celebrate.
36:05
Speaker 2: And it's interesting almost all of us on this page
36:09
Speaker 2: smiled or at least had we just looked joyous. It
36:13
Speaker 2: was wonderful. So I want to take congratulations to everyone.
36:17
Speaker 2: And it's just a great opportunity to be able to
36:21
Speaker 2: see this vibration through the lens of the Poets Unites Anthology,
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Speaker 2: Volume one, and I encourage persons to you know, it's
36:28
Speaker 2: available on Amazon. It is already a number one new release.
36:32
Speaker 2: It's a hot new release in terms in poetry anthologies,
36:36
Speaker 2: and I think this is a great opportunity for each
36:39
Speaker 2: of us. I'm excited and I'm looking forward to sharing
36:44
Speaker 2: before we close out tonight, I'll definitely share one of
36:46
Speaker 2: my new pieces because this is getting me to the
36:50
Speaker 2: point where I'm writing more poetic verse. I tend to
36:53
Speaker 2: do a lot of pros and I like to do
36:56
Speaker 2: spoken word, but I'm finding that this is giving my ground,
37:00
Speaker 2: keeping me grounded on the things that I like to
37:03
Speaker 2: express and the way that I like to express them
37:06
Speaker 2: as creatively as is possible. I also want to share
37:12
Speaker 2: with my listeners and those that are viewing that this
37:17
Speaker 2: is also a very engaging time. And when I say engaging,
37:25
Speaker 2: I mean it from a space of looking at you know,
37:29
Speaker 2: for example, things that are happening around the National Medical
37:32
Speaker 2: Association and most persons what is the anime? But I'm like,
37:36
Speaker 2: they are always about service, excellence and accountability, and they
37:41
Speaker 2: put out a press statement yesterday, So while most of
37:47
Speaker 2: us were looking at ourselves on Times Square, this was
37:51
Speaker 2: also going on. And I'd like to just share for
37:54
Speaker 2: those persons that are not aware that the National Medical Association,
37:58
Speaker 2: representing the collective voice of Black physicians and the patients
38:02
Speaker 2: we serve, expresses deep concern regarding the escalating health consequences
38:08
Speaker 2: of the ongoing Cuban blockade. This comes following a recent
38:12
Speaker 2: dialogue between NMA President Doctor Roger A. Mitchell Junior, and
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Speaker 2: the Ambassador of Cuba, Dannietis Diegis. Cuba's healthcare system is
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Speaker 2: currently experiencing severe strain driven by an intensifying energy crisis
38:27
Speaker 2: linked to restrictions on fuel access. Hospitals and clinics are
38:32
Speaker 2: facing persistent power outages, disrupting life saving services such as
38:37
Speaker 2: neonatal care, dialysis, chemotherapy, and surgical procedures. More than ninety
38:44
Speaker 2: six thousand patients are currently awaiting surgeries, including thousands of children,
38:50
Speaker 2: as the system is forced to delay care due to
38:53
Speaker 2: limited operational capacity. Fuel shortages are also impairing ambulance services,
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Speaker 2: inspectation of health care workers, and the distribution of essential medicines.
39:06
Speaker 2: National pharmaceutical production has slowed significantly, and the stability required
39:11
Speaker 2: to store vaccines and critical medications is increasingly at risk
39:16
Speaker 2: due to ongoing electricity disruptions. The consequences are particularly alarming
39:22
Speaker 2: for vulnerable populations. Shortages of antibiotics, nutritional supplements, and basic
39:28
Speaker 2: medical supplies are contributing to worsening maternal and infant health outcomes,
39:34
Speaker 2: including tens of thousands of children experiencing delays and routine
39:39
Speaker 2: vaccinations due to logistical and energy constraints. From a medical
39:44
Speaker 2: and ethical standpoint, these conditions raise urgent concerns access to
39:51
Speaker 2: reliable electricity, essential medicines, and functioning health care infrastructure are
39:59
Speaker 2: foundation to modern medicine. When these are compromised, the result
40:03
Speaker 2: is preventable suffering, delayed care, and increased risk of morbidity
40:09
Speaker 2: and mortality. The NIME affirms that health is a human right.
40:14
Speaker 2: Public health systems must be protected from policies that unintentionally
40:18
Speaker 2: or disproportionately harm civilian populations, particularly children, pregnant women, the elderly,
40:27
Speaker 2: and those with chronic or life threatening conditions. As physicians
40:32
Speaker 2: committed to health equity and global health justice, we call
40:35
Speaker 2: for immediate removal of elements of the blockade that have
40:39
Speaker 2: led to the humanitarian and health impacts affecting the people
40:44
Speaker 2: of Cuban. We further encourage dialogue, transparency, and collaboration among
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Speaker 2: the global medical and public health communities in response to
40:54
Speaker 2: the crisis to assist with access to care, medical supplies,
40:58
Speaker 2: and life sustaining resources needed post blockade. The National Medical
41:04
Speaker 2: Association stands in solidarity with healthcare professionals working under constrained
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Speaker 2: conditions and reiterates its commitment to advocating for policies that
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Speaker 2: protect patient care, preserve human dignity, and uphold the fundamental
41:21
Speaker 2: principles of public health, and that is the press statement
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Speaker 2: dated April first, twenty twenty six from the National Medical
41:30
Speaker 2: Association entitled the National Medical Association raises alarm on public
41:35
Speaker 2: health crisis in Cuba. I want to thank my comrade
41:39
Speaker 2: and colleague ob Agbuna the second for sharing that particular
41:46
Speaker 2: link in information with us, because there's some colloquia that
41:51
Speaker 2: are in place, and I think it's important that people
41:55
Speaker 2: that are listening recognize that there's a lot that's going on,
42:00
Speaker 2: and it's just important that we are giving people grace, understanding,
42:07
Speaker 2: and authentic justice and inclusivity to the best of our
42:11
Speaker 2: ability to restore the harm done again. See how reparations
42:17
Speaker 2: keeps coming up and repair toward justice keeps coming up.
42:21
Speaker 2: So I just needed to make sure that those that
42:24
Speaker 2: are listening. I'm looking forward to having a guest join
42:27
Speaker 2: us on our next podcast of US Speaks building a
42:33
Speaker 2: new legacy here on Kings and Queens at the airwaves
42:37
Speaker 2: in the near future. I know that our next regular
42:43
Speaker 2: broadcast will be two weeks from now, so that'll be
42:47
Speaker 2: the sixteenth of April, which is one of my favorite
42:52
Speaker 2: days because it's the day that our youngest daughter was born.
42:56
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I'll get her to join us,
42:58
Speaker 2: but maybe, just maybe, because she has wonderful business, Beauty Mar.
43:04
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking of beauty Bye Mary. I just think
43:07
Speaker 2: it's awesome. Beauty bar by Mary. Make sure you say
43:10
Speaker 2: it right, ma, Beauty bar by Mary. And she is
43:13
Speaker 2: in Texas, you can pretty much. So she's on Instagram
43:16
Speaker 2: all the time. You know how the young people move.
43:19
Speaker 2: But she's doing really well as an esthetician and providing
43:23
Speaker 2: a variety of not just beautification services, but just making
43:26
Speaker 2: sure that you're well and that you're using the best
43:28
Speaker 2: products that are in harm me with your body system.
43:31
Speaker 2: So she's going to give me some infomercials to add
43:34
Speaker 2: for our next broadcast. But in the meantime, I'm encouraging
43:38
Speaker 2: persons please be safe. Use this time as a time
43:42
Speaker 2: of reflection around the globe. We're hoping that there can
43:45
Speaker 2: be Wouldn't it be wonderful if during this time of
43:49
Speaker 2: all of these holy observances and celebrations for some some
43:57
Speaker 2: that are very somber, those that are very spiritual, sacred, reflective,
44:03
Speaker 2: wouldn't it be fabulous if there was peace and tranquility,
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Speaker 2: no genocide, no warfare, no rape and domestic violence, no terrorism,
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Speaker 2: at least for these next few days, it would be fabulous.
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Speaker 2: And so we have to command that to the best
44:34
Speaker 2: of our ability, you know. And I say that through
44:37
Speaker 2: the lens of knowing that there are mothers and fathers,
44:45
Speaker 2: grandmothers and grandfathers, families that of mourning acts of violence
44:54
Speaker 2: that have taken the lives of their relatives. And I
44:58
Speaker 2: speak to that from here in Saint Croix, virgin Islands,
45:04
Speaker 2: where there's still feuds back and forth, and there were
45:12
Speaker 2: our homicides happening on this small smile eighty four square
45:16
Speaker 2: mile island as recent as earlier this week. So I
45:23
Speaker 2: keep encouraging persons, wherever you rest your head, wherever you're
45:28
Speaker 2: giving your energy to, let us just expand that energy.
45:34
Speaker 2: So it just restores another layer of peace to the
45:37
Speaker 2: best of our ability. I'm not trying to be fluffy,
45:40
Speaker 2: fluffy mushy. I'm just encouraging us to put the Creator,
45:46
Speaker 2: by all the names that give veneration and worship, maybe
45:53
Speaker 2: be granted peace. May we be granted with tranquility in
46:00
Speaker 2: abundance along with prosperity in all ways. May air, the
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Speaker 2: elements of air, fire, earth, water, and spirit surround us
46:11
Speaker 2: and keep us protected during this time where persons are
46:16
Speaker 2: observing this Holy Week and all the other different iterations
46:21
Speaker 2: that take place during this time. And mind you, while
46:25
Speaker 2: we're still being watchful of those that have no respect
46:29
Speaker 2: for life, have no sense of order, want to bring
46:35
Speaker 2: anarchy and chaos to humanity and revelent destruction and demonism.
46:44
Speaker 2: We're putting that to that side. So sometimes people say
46:48
Speaker 2: that I should just do this and speak this way
46:51
Speaker 2: firm So this was not a I have some notes,
46:55
Speaker 2: but the intention was to share what's happening in the area,
46:59
Speaker 2: make sure that we highlight some of the work. It's
47:03
Speaker 2: one thing to make an announcement of proclamation and a resolution,
47:07
Speaker 2: but now the brass text of how do we repair,
47:13
Speaker 2: heal the damage is done, and build up strong institutions
47:20
Speaker 2: that ensure never again ever. I'm going to say that
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Speaker 2: one more time, never again ever, because now it's time
47:33
Speaker 2: for us to look at the future and bring a
47:36
Speaker 2: future that lets us thrive. So I'm going to pause
47:40
Speaker 2: there and again I look forward to you joining A
47:43
Speaker 2: Speaks building a new legacy in two weeks here on
47:48
Speaker 2: the Crew podcast, and you can reach me at os
47:52
Speaker 2: Speaks A S T. S P E. A k S
47:57
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com or you can look for chins
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Speaker 2: there Kahina and virtually all social media as well as
48:04
Speaker 2: OSD speaks A S T S P E A K
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Speaker 2: S on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and I'm sure a few
48:15
Speaker 2: other platforms. I have young people starting to work on
48:17
Speaker 2: my media. So again I thank you and remember culture
48:21
Speaker 2: heals humanity. Land is our foundation, and spiritual harmony unifies
48:28
Speaker 2: us and I look forward to tapping you join us
48:32
Speaker 2: again for another versation in the very very very very
48:40
Speaker 2: very near future. We give thanks, peace,