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AST SPEAK WITH DR. CHEN. _ 2-19-26 SEASON 4 DA CREW PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Big gentlemen, May I have your attention peace. The show
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Speaker 1: starts in ted h seven six five four three two
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Speaker 1: fun go.
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Speaker 2: And greetings, and welcome you again to another live broadcast
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Speaker 2: of I Speaks Building a New Legacy here with the
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Speaker 2: Crew podcast. This is season four. I think it's really
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Speaker 2: important for persons to just take a moment, take a
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Speaker 2: deep breath, reflect and give thanks as we are coming
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Speaker 2: to those closing days of the month of February, which
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Speaker 2: has had a number of observances in addition to African
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Speaker 2: American Black History Months for some because we know that
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Speaker 2: African Black History is three hundred and sixty five days
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Speaker 2: a year, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
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Speaker 2: I think it's really critical and important that we begin
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Speaker 2: to share some of the various commentary of what has
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Speaker 2: been happening around the globe, around the world, and how
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Speaker 2: we honor and celebrate, observe, commemorate, or even just reflect
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Speaker 2: on all of the things that have transpired that provide
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Speaker 2: the support, the legacy work, the building that we speak
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Speaker 2: of so eloquently. I would like to always start our
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Speaker 2: podcasts with words of power, words of praise. So I'm
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Speaker 2: going to say it in English for those persons that
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Speaker 2: may come into this podcast and not know what is
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Speaker 2: she's saying. But we give thanks and praise to the
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Speaker 2: One most High by all the names we use that
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Speaker 2: are venerated, so we always give thanks and praise to
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Speaker 2: the One most High. We live each day daily for
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Speaker 2: the One most Divine, and we shall do it tomorrow
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Speaker 2: just as we do it today. In the matternature, the
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Speaker 2: ancestral language of the African ancestral ancient Nubi and New
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Speaker 2: Christian New Chemical Heritage people, it would sound amasu and
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Speaker 2: pan de sasu and ada intada, And we're really just
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Speaker 2: giving thanks so that we can start some of our
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Speaker 2: verse station tonight on a very high note, vibrating in
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Speaker 2: an elevated space and adding truth as power, not just
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Speaker 2: to power, but truth as power. So when we speak
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Speaker 2: of truth in the form we refer to as my Aunt,
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Speaker 2: a very feminine ancestral divine principle that incorporates truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance,
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Speaker 2: divine righteousness, and harmony, it just resonates well and it
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Speaker 2: feels powerfully engaging. I'd also like to highlight that sometimes
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Speaker 2: when we are engaging and moving through this tride of life,
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Speaker 2: that there are always obstacles. There are obstacles that come
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Speaker 2: forward in a variety of ways, Obstacles that are geared
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Speaker 2: to prevent us from going into spaces and places that
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Speaker 2: we may not need to go into, protecting us from
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Speaker 2: saying things that are more damaging not only to self,
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Speaker 2: but to family, to community, to society, to humanity even
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Speaker 2: and impacting civilizations globally just from the word, just from
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Speaker 2: what we speak and the manner in which we say it.
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Speaker 2: It's always, it's always a powerful space when we get
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to give thanks and honor for being aware,
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Speaker 2: sharing our cognitive strengths and skills on how we acquire knowledge,
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Speaker 2: how we will manifest wisdom, and doing it in a
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Speaker 2: form that is very powerful, very positive, very engaging. There
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Speaker 2: has been a shift, a very significant shift, regarding what
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Speaker 2: has surrounded our planetary environment. The fact that some believe
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Speaker 2: the climate change is not real. When the climate is changing,
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Speaker 2: and places and spaces that are usually quite tropical, quite warm,
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Speaker 2: that usually have only two seasons hurricane season and tropical
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Speaker 2: weather and seasons are now seeing flurries, are now experiencing cools,
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Speaker 2: temperatures that are very similar to the temperate zone unlike
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Speaker 2: the tropical zone. Just thoughts for us to have in
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Speaker 2: our consciousness. I also take a moment. There's been a
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Speaker 2: number of ancestral transitions, persons passing away, and this is
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Speaker 2: a season as we are moving towards the spring season
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Speaker 2: or what persons refer to as the vernal equinox on
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Speaker 2: or about March twenty second, so there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: transition and many people becoming part of the other dimension,
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Speaker 2: what we refer to as an ancestral dimension that some
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Speaker 2: people refer to as a menta asstau. Some speak of heaven,
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Speaker 2: but many others speak of the earthly paradise. And those
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Speaker 2: that know what I'm speaking to know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: But we take a moment of silence for those that
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Speaker 2: have traversed out of the physical earthly realm into that
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Speaker 2: plane where they are in a space of preparation to
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Speaker 2: return to that spiritual ancestral dimension. So let's just take
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Speaker 2: a moment and breathe together. Most persons are going to
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Speaker 2: remember the national, regional, international, intergenerational human rights civil rights
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Speaker 2: efforts and work and leadership of Reverend Jesse Jackson, and
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Speaker 2: there are so many powerful tributes being shared around the globe.
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Speaker 2: We honor the great work and the achievements, and this
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Speaker 2: is not a time to speak of his ideological shifts
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Speaker 2: or differences with persons, as I've also seen in primarily
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Speaker 2: in US media or what we're referring to as media,
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Speaker 2: I should say, in US social media, because amongst investigative journalists,
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Speaker 2: their focus is on usually on the achievements the contributions
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Speaker 2: of a person, especially so close to their very recent
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Speaker 2: passing or transition. And we've liked to highlight those things
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Speaker 2: in terms of the walk and tribe that he kept,
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Speaker 2: you know as a young person, you know around the
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Speaker 2: Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, you know, the contributions around
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Speaker 2: the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Speaker 2: His work and efforts, some persons say support, some persons
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Speaker 2: say just presence around the Black Panther Party, around the
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Speaker 2: Civil rights movement and era, you know, the March on Washington,
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Speaker 2: the efforts you know, working with and around powerhouses like
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Speaker 2: the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Jr. And even the
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Speaker 2: fact of his presence around many persons, some that were
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Speaker 2: removed from the earth, assassinated, executed, exiled, imprisoned. So there
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Speaker 2: are a lot of questions and a lot that surrounds
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Speaker 2: how persons perceive such a great one. And at this
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Speaker 2: ticular time, we just send prayers of strength and comforting,
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Speaker 2: healing heart mercies to his family, because sometimes he moved
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Speaker 2: like he was going to become the centenarian that many
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Speaker 2: would have desired close in his eighties and to live
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Speaker 2: that long after doing that type of grounding work in
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Speaker 2: all the different ways that uplifted our people and humanity. Yes,
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Speaker 2: much from his work was grounded on pushing forward for
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Speaker 2: African Americans. It had an impact and spread out to humanity.
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Speaker 2: Though you know so some people remember the Rainbow Coalitions,
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Speaker 2: some people remember push There were a number of organizations
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Speaker 2: institutions that were very positive. So I pause there and
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Speaker 2: again when we speak of the achievers, the contributors to
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Speaker 2: our community, to our society, to our humanity, coming through
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Speaker 2: the work and efforts of now a new ancestor making
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Speaker 2: his transition amongst other ancestors great ones, we call the
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Speaker 2: name of Reverend Jesse Jackson, and again give our regards
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Speaker 2: to his family. I'm going to shift to a couple
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Speaker 2: of other areas, primarily because we have had the joint
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Speaker 2: privilege of seeing in one of my guests that was
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Speaker 2: planning to and it's probably a connectivity issue plus at
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Speaker 2: times shift because we're don Dada Menelik Nesta Gibbons, a
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Speaker 2: multi platinum award winning artist out of South Africa, South
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Speaker 2: East Africa should be specific, you know, born in Zimbabwe,
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Speaker 2: giving his contributions to love and Strength in Asagna, South Africa.
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Speaker 2: The plan was for him to join us tonight and
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Speaker 2: keeping in mind that the time difference is they're about
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Speaker 2: seven hours ahead of us from at least where I'm
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Speaker 2: at here in the Virgin Islands, which is technically eight
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Speaker 2: hours ahead from Eastern time, and we're going to really
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Speaker 2: push to have him and some of his colleagues and
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Speaker 2: other artists join us in the future here on the
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Speaker 2: Crew podcast. That way we can actually have a really
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Speaker 2: robust versation and keep it moving and flowing and growing
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Speaker 2: and engaging to just learn a little bit more about
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Speaker 2: how music is. As Boba Fela Kutti shared back in
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Speaker 2: the seventies, eighties and the nineties, music is a weapon
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Speaker 2: and when we use music accurately, it becomes a weapon
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Speaker 2: of education, of political revolutionary efforts, of economic regeneration, of upliftment,
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Speaker 2: of emotional strength, of holistic healing, and much much more
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Speaker 2: in addition to being a creative art form that is
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Speaker 2: the fusion of logic and grammar and rhetoric and architecture
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Speaker 2: and science and all the things that govern our universe.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to really spend some time over the
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Speaker 2: course to really bring some other layers of our conversations
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Speaker 2: into our work. There are a number of things that
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Speaker 2: I had hoped we would have been able to explore
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Speaker 2: tonight as well, and so I'm going to come. I
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Speaker 2: think it's important to just keep in mind that there
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Speaker 2: are a number of organizations in this region that are
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Speaker 2: and when I say in this region of speaking of
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Speaker 2: the Caribbean Americas for the purposes of this podcast, where
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Speaker 2: for example, the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago
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Speaker 2: has really been surrounding itself around a number of really
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Speaker 2: powerful work and efforts around various creative arts calypso competitions.
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Speaker 2: This has been a really robust time for them, and
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Speaker 2: I think it's important if you're not familiar or encourage
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Speaker 2: persons to go to emancipation tt dot com, just emancipation
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Speaker 2: tt dot com and that way you can find out
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Speaker 2: a little bit more about the Emancipation Support Committee of
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Speaker 2: Trinidad and Tobagel and some of the work that they
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Speaker 2: do around you know, whether it's linked to their Pan
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Speaker 2: African festivals in various commemorations, whether it's around their lecture
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Speaker 2: series that always support African consciousness, whether it's around the
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Speaker 2: reparatory justice and reparations efforts and works that they've been
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Speaker 2: instrumental to, whether it is linked to the observances of
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Speaker 2: the Second International Decade for People of African Descent through
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Speaker 2: the United Nations that is also partnering with the African
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Speaker 2: Union and other organizations to really push forward recognition, justice
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Speaker 2: and development in its most pragmatic form in the next decade.
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Speaker 2: There was there has been a first decade which was
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Speaker 2: from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty four and many things
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Speaker 2: were started. However, now that there is also a United
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Speaker 2: Nations permanent form for People of African descent and these
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Speaker 2: other bodies that work on Working Group of African Experts
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Speaker 2: amongst other entities, the intention is to let more persons
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Speaker 2: know what is actually taking place and how you can
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Speaker 2: be participatory. So in this region of the Caribbean Americas.
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Speaker 2: You have entities likely Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Speaker 2: In addition to the work they do with various school
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Speaker 2: competitions and educational drivers, they keep young people at the
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Speaker 2: center of this work, inclusive of their weekly broadcasts on
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Speaker 2: Wednesdays at eight pm. It's interesting it's at the same
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Speaker 2: time as our crew past work, but at eight pm
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Speaker 2: and they are always available on YouTube in Daba I
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Speaker 2: n d a BA. The ESCTT also is engaged in
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Speaker 2: heritage tours and works as provide secretariat services and groundings
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Speaker 2: for the Caribbean Pan African work, which is a coalition
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Speaker 2: may not be the best term, but it's an alliance
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Speaker 2: of organizations and members that are involved in supporting and
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Speaker 2: promoting Pan Africanism and Pan African values and Pan African
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Speaker 2: ideological programs throughout the Caribbean Americas, with representation from the
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Speaker 2: Muhammas all the way as far south as Surinama, Venezuela, Colombia, etc.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important, you know east like Catalina, which
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Speaker 2: are you know, some parisons don't really understand that there's
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Speaker 2: other parts of the Caribbean. Some many English speaking, some
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Speaker 2: Spanish speaking, some French speaking, some Papiamentos speaking, some Dutch speaking,
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Speaker 2: some Portuguese speaking, and then all of the preoleized languages
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Speaker 2: that exist in these spaces. So we do our best
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Speaker 2: not to let the languages separate us as much as
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Speaker 2: possible to authentically be Pan African in our focus. I
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Speaker 2: think that the other part that I felt was really
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Speaker 2: important to share it tonight, since we know that this
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Speaker 2: is the time where African black history is elbrated, is
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Speaker 2: that this is a very good time for us to
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Speaker 2: also speak truth as power on a number of other efforts,
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Speaker 2: a number of other things that are taking place in
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Speaker 2: our global communities. And I speak to some of the
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Speaker 2: things that have been offered and shared. I'm noticing that
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Speaker 2: persons are trying to communicate and send messages, and I
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Speaker 2: just express the persons because it's because I do not
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Speaker 2: have my invited guests, non data mentolich nestic gibbons, those
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Speaker 2: types of questions. Please hold them until we are able
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Speaker 2: to confirm another date for him and his colleagues to
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Speaker 2: join us. But we knew the persons were very excited
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Speaker 2: about the possibility or even the probability, I should say,
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Speaker 2: of being able to hear him, hear his music, and
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Speaker 2: to really see the type of work that is being
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Speaker 2: done on the ground, definitely with some serious boots in
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Speaker 2: Johannesburg in South Africa, and the impact that it has
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Speaker 2: in global affairs and so forth. I think it's also
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Speaker 2: a very good opportunity persons that are not familiar with
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Speaker 2: the Caracom Reparations Commission. I encourage you to take some
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Speaker 2: time and look at the Caracom Reparations Commissions website, just
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Speaker 2: so that you get an idea of some of the
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Speaker 2: things that are taking place now, because some people really
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Speaker 2: do not know that these things are manifested. You can
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Speaker 2: go to Caracom c A r I com Reparations r
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Speaker 2: E e A r A t I O n s
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Speaker 2: dot org again carecom reparations dot org, and there you
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Speaker 2: would be able to see a little more information about
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Speaker 2: the reparation's movement and specifically how the reparation's movement has
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Speaker 2: transitioned out of some of the select limitations or lack
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Speaker 2: of proper information throughout the twentieth century. Some things are
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Speaker 2: firm and on point, and make sure I say that
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Speaker 2: at first, but some of the nuances, some of the
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Speaker 2: techniques and strategies some of the ongoing work that persons
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Speaker 2: may not be aware of. This is not just to
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Speaker 2: get money from colonizers episode. This is an actual movement,
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Speaker 2: and it is a very strategic, very organized, very institutional
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Speaker 2: grounded movement to repair the damages done to people of
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Speaker 2: African ancestry as well as indigenous people in this region
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Speaker 2: on the Earth that have experienced the type of marginalization, dehumanization, degradation, exclusion, oppression,
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Speaker 2: repression over the course of centuries and in some instances
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Speaker 2: even longer. And I've encouraged persons go to Caracmreparations dot
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Speaker 2: org just so that you can see how the formulations
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Speaker 2: are put in place. And I quote this, the Caribbean
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Speaker 2: Reparation Commission outlines the path to reconciliation, truth and justice
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Speaker 2: with the victims of slavery and their descendants, just so
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Speaker 2: persons get the fullness. So this is not just an
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Speaker 2: emancipation proclamation, revisitation peace, and this is not just for example,
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Speaker 2: here in eighteen forty eight in what was then the
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Speaker 2: Danish Wadies Africans that were enslaved by the stroke of
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Speaker 2: a pen so called from this day, all unfree and
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Speaker 2: the Danish West Indies are free. What does that mean really?
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Speaker 2: And especially if the quality of life did not improve
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Speaker 2: and the same thing happened in eighteen sixty five, Yes,
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Speaker 2: I guess make sure you get these things between eighteen
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Speaker 2: sixty three eighteen sixty five, moving into eighteen seventies. In
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Speaker 2: the United States, you can say in certain areas that
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Speaker 2: enslavement and the enslavement of Africans had ended and they
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Speaker 2: were emancipated. But what did you do to repair the
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Speaker 2: inequities during those hundreds of year of enslavement? And if
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Speaker 2: you promise and off of persons forty acres and a mule,
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Speaker 2: which you do, not ratify it. So only certain select
24:12
Speaker 2: here and there secured some degree of land. Might not
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Speaker 2: have even been a whole forty acres, and in some
24:18
Speaker 2: instances it might have been more, but you definitely didn't
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Speaker 2: give them even the mule. And that just became again.
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Speaker 2: So many persons thought that everyone got some land, an
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Speaker 2: animal that could help work the land, some resource, some
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Speaker 2: type of remuneration, some type of reciprocity, some type of
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Speaker 2: reconciliation for hundreds of years of enslavement and dehumanization and
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Speaker 2: lynching and rape, and more. But that didn't happen, and
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Speaker 2: the situations became harder in many instances, not only in
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Speaker 2: the fourty eight contiguous US, but throughout the earth. You
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Speaker 2: have places like Hawaii with melanated Hawaiians that were royals,
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Speaker 2: and even one of the last queens was forced into
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Speaker 2: exile and to forced to applicate her throne to facilitate
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Speaker 2: what persons like to refer to as another state of
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Speaker 2: the United States of America Hawaii. Don't believe me, do
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Speaker 2: the research, and that's an easy Google or easy for
25:51
Speaker 2: those that like to keep using chat GBT, but you
25:54
Speaker 2: want to check the citations given. Just ask last que
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Speaker 2: and Hawaiian Queen forced to abdicate her throat in Hawaii,
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Speaker 2: and will begin to see that preparatory justice, reparations, reconciliation
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Speaker 2: for the wrongs done to people of African indigenous ancestral
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Speaker 2: legacies and ancestry. H It's beyond time, and this is
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Speaker 2: a great opportunity for us to speak about some of
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Speaker 2: those things. And again, as I've shared before, there are
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Speaker 2: a number of organizations, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, African
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Speaker 2: Communities League, Rehabilitating Committee twenty twenty. I know it's long,
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Speaker 2: So for the purposes of tonight's podcast, You and I
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Speaker 2: a acl RC twenty twenty, I need you to just
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Speaker 2: ponder on this. We speak of the honorable Marcus Messiah Garvey,
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Speaker 2: we reference and highlight the achievements of his leadership, his guidance,
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Speaker 2: his ability to organize and lead millions more than four
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Speaker 2: zero point five million in terms of archival record, and
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Speaker 2: in some archival record persons say it exceeded six million
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Speaker 2: in the nineteen early nineteen hundreds. Between nineteen fourteen nineteen
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, we'll say, like for sure nineteen thirteen, nineteen
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Speaker 2: thirty five, before his premature death in nineteen forty, I
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Speaker 2: think it's important to just reflect on that. Who is
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Speaker 2: Marcus Garvey and why is African fundamentalism? Why is the
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Speaker 2: African Liberation flag so important? When we speak of the
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Speaker 2: honor both Marcus Mesiat Garvey, if we are speaking truth
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Speaker 2: is power, then we have to speak of his first wife,
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Speaker 2: who started the U n I a ac L with
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Speaker 2: him in Jamaica, Amy Ashwick Garvey, another powerful, internationally well
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Speaker 2: traveled leader and oftentimes not included in some of the
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Speaker 2: commentary some of the historiography. When we speak of the
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Speaker 2: Garvey movement. We know the truth. We would be remiss
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Speaker 2: to then overlook the reason why we were able to
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Speaker 2: have publications that still available now Lack of Philosophy and
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Speaker 2: Opinions of Marcus Garvey Volumes one, two, and three, edited
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Speaker 2: by the Honorable Marcus Sosiaty, Garvey's second wife Amy Jacks Garvey,
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Speaker 2: and I like for persons to nurture these concepts and
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Speaker 2: nurtured these thoughts because there's so much more information that
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Speaker 2: we are able to have shared and to bring to
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Speaker 2: the table in terms of what we can do that
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Speaker 2: are actionable deliverables, actual work efforts in our respective communities,
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Speaker 2: that build community, that strengthen the educational institutions in our communities,
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Speaker 2: that offer support for self, family, community, society, humanity in
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Speaker 2: a broad scale. And the fact that from very humble
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Speaker 2: beginnings in the island of Jamaica, that the un iaacl
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Speaker 2: spread globally with divisions all across the Earth and virtually
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Speaker 2: every continent. We know that there's five continents. For those
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Speaker 2: that keep saying that Australia is a continent, we will
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Speaker 2: do the geography lesson of what is an island versus
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Speaker 2: a continent? At another time. But of the five continents
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Speaker 2: on the Earth, there has been records documentation of divisions
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Speaker 2: of the un iaa Al globally. So when we speak
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Speaker 2: about African American Black History Month or for some just
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Speaker 2: Black History Month, of persons like me African History Month,
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Speaker 2: and I like to say African History because it's all
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Speaker 2: the time it requires every day. There is so much,
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Speaker 2: not just the information for the sake of utterance, but
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Speaker 2: information that strengthens our skill set, strengthens our wisdom, strengthens
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Speaker 2: our resolve of the importance of our inclusivity and global
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Speaker 2: affairs and national affairs and regional affairs. And to take
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Speaker 2: this particular time, in this particular era, in this particular season,
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Speaker 2: to expand and explore some of the greatness that we
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Speaker 2: are afforded in these times. I would like to also
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Speaker 2: highlight that there are several pieces in this particular message
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Speaker 2: I share just in case persons do not have the
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Speaker 2: familiarity with one of our esteemed leaders in this space
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Speaker 2: of the Caribbean, specifically coming out of the newest Republic
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Speaker 2: in the Caribbean. Still others are in the making, we pray,
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Speaker 2: but out of the Republic, the sovereign Republic of Barbados,
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Speaker 2: which has just recently had a very powerful election on
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Speaker 2: February eleventh, twenty twenty six, with her excellency Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: Miya More Motley of the Barbados Labor Party winning. The
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Speaker 2: word landslide would come out, but I'm going to pause
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Speaker 2: on that. I'm just going to focus on the fact
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Speaker 2: that her Excellency Prime Minister Mia Motley of the Sovereign
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Speaker 2: Republic of Barbados successfully one yet another term as Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister of the Republic of Barbados. Applause is an understatement
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Speaker 2: because most persons straw out this region claim her as
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Speaker 2: our prime minister, even if our structure, if governance doesn't
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Speaker 2: have prime ministers and may have governors or may have presidents. Right,
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Speaker 2: I think it's really important to know that her leadership
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Speaker 2: has remained exemplary. And again, never with would I say
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Speaker 2: that any leader is perfect. We're still human. So there
34:02
Speaker 2: are things that many will support and andrace, and there's
34:07
Speaker 2: things that others will not. However, I like to highlight
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Speaker 2: that do the reporting and legacy building that has been
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Speaker 2: presented by the Ambassador from Barbados to Cara Con and
34:29
Speaker 2: I will always highlight his excellency Ambassador David Cormas Young
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Speaker 2: out of Barbados, and I want to share something he
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Speaker 2: had put out globally. And for those that have a
34:47
Speaker 2: soft skin, close your ears. But for those that are
34:51
Speaker 2: willing to embrace perspective that is broad and wide, just
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Speaker 2: listen to what I share here from me, but from
35:03
Speaker 2: his excellency, Ambassador David Commas Young esquire. Make sure I
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Speaker 2: highlight that he's an international lawyer with a host of
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Speaker 2: other experiences, phenomenal published author, loves creative arts, engaged in
35:22
Speaker 2: youth program I could go through. I'll do his bio
35:25
Speaker 2: another time and have him come as his schedule permits.
35:29
Speaker 2: This is our wake up God. In his recent speech
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Speaker 2: at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Marco
35:40
Speaker 2: Rubio portrayed the USA as a white nation that was
35:46
Speaker 2: exclusively built by white European people, Italian explorers, English settlers,
35:56
Speaker 2: scot and Irish Frontiersman German farmer, French fur traders, and
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Speaker 2: Spanish ranchers. Rubio found no place in his version of
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Speaker 2: the USA for either the presence or the contributions of
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Speaker 2: the native or indigenous people of America who originally owned
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Speaker 2: the country. The enslaved Africans upon whose labor the nation
36:22
Speaker 2: was significantly built, or the later Asian, Caribbean, Mexican and
36:27
Speaker 2: other Latino and Mestiso contributors to the national strength of
36:33
Speaker 2: the USA. As far as Rubio is concerned, the USA
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Speaker 2: is exclusively white in European an integral component of so
36:47
Speaker 2: called Western red as white civilization. These are some of
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Speaker 2: Rubio's exact words quote for the United States and Europe.
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Speaker 2: We belong together. We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
37:08
Speaker 2: We are connected spiritually and we are connected culturally. Armies
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Speaker 2: fight for a people. Armies fight for a nation. Armies
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Speaker 2: fight for a way of life. And that is what
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Speaker 2: we are defending. A great civilization that has every reason
37:30
Speaker 2: to be proud of its history, confident of its future,
37:34
Speaker 2: and aims to be the master of its own economic
37:37
Speaker 2: and political destiny. For five centuries before the end of
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Speaker 2: the Second World War, the West had been expanding its missionaries,
37:47
Speaker 2: its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its
37:52
Speaker 2: shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires
37:58
Speaker 2: extending out across the globe. But in nineteen forty five,
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Speaker 2: for the first time, since the age of Columbus, it
38:09
Speaker 2: was contracting. The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline,
38:16
Speaker 2: accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti colonial uprisings
38:23
Speaker 2: that would transform the world. Against that backdrop, then, as now,
38:30
Speaker 2: many came to believe that the West's age of dominance
38:34
Speaker 2: had come to an end, and that our future was
38:38
Speaker 2: destined to be a faint echo of our past. But together,
38:43
Speaker 2: our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it
38:49
Speaker 2: was a choice they refused to make. This is what
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Speaker 2: we did together once before, and this is what President Trump,
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Speaker 2: United States want to do again now. Together with you.
39:05
Speaker 2: We want allies who can defend themselves so that no
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Speaker 2: adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.
39:14
Speaker 2: That is why we do not want our allies to
39:16
Speaker 2: be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who
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Speaker 2: are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who
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Speaker 2: understand that we are heirs to the same great and
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Speaker 2: noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and
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Speaker 2: able to defend it. An alliance ready to defend our people,
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Speaker 2: to safeguard our interests, and to preserve the freedom of
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Speaker 2: action that allows us to shape our own destiny, not
39:52
Speaker 2: one that exists to operate a global welfare state and
39:56
Speaker 2: atone for the purported sins of past generations. An alliance
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Speaker 2: that does not maintain the polite pretense that our way
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Speaker 2: of life is just one among many, And above all,
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Speaker 2: an alliance based on the recognition that we the West
40:15
Speaker 2: have inherited together something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable.
40:25
Speaker 2: I think persons need to here and go back and
40:29
Speaker 2: watch that part of what I just read, and if
40:34
Speaker 2: a person's question, just simply Google search, Google scholar preferably
40:40
Speaker 2: so you get some citations and show the accuracy of
40:43
Speaker 2: what's being said and listen. Because that's one thing I
40:47
Speaker 2: am grateful for about POTUS forty seven's administration. They broadcast everything.
40:55
Speaker 2: They even broadcast things they shouldn't broadcast in terms of
41:00
Speaker 2: talk about violating national security. That I think it's also
41:06
Speaker 2: important that persons move and look at some of these
41:14
Speaker 2: comments that are coming out from the cara com platform.
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Speaker 2: And I think when I speak of cara COMM, I'm
41:21
Speaker 2: speaking of the Caribbean community and the heads of state
41:26
Speaker 2: of the Caribbean community that make up care COM and
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Speaker 2: quite recently with their various regular meetings of the Conference
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Speaker 2: of Heads of Government. And this particular quote was shared
41:38
Speaker 2: parallel to this that I've just shared from his Excellency,
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Speaker 2: the Honorable Ambassador of Barbados, David Commis, and I quote,
41:51
Speaker 2: this is coming from the Honorable Doctor Terrence Andrew, who
41:55
Speaker 2: is the Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nivas and
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Speaker 2: the chairman currently of caracm end quote. CARACOM is not
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Speaker 2: a talk shop. It is a platform for action. The
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Speaker 2: fiftieth Meeting must move us beyond conversation and into concrete,
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Speaker 2: measurable outcomes that advance food security, climate resilience, regional security
42:23
Speaker 2: and economic growth unquote. And I share that because those
42:27
Speaker 2: are the things that are coming out in this region,
42:31
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping that persons recognize it. When we speak
42:34
Speaker 2: of the Americas, we're not only talking about forty eight
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Speaker 2: contiguous US, Alaska, Hawye and the five colonies that America
42:44
Speaker 2: still governs. We're speaking of Canada, North America, Central America,
42:52
Speaker 2: the Caribbean Isles, South America, and everything in that western hemisphere,
42:59
Speaker 2: let's say, to the west of Greenland, which is a
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Speaker 2: whole other conversation and that's another broadcast in terms of
43:06
Speaker 2: what's happening with Greenland and whether or not the Pirates
43:10
Speaker 2: of America and their respective Barmada can control that island
43:14
Speaker 2: as well. I think it's important for persons to just
43:17
Speaker 2: be aware when we're commemorating, reflecting, observing, celebrating African American
43:30
Speaker 2: Black History Month, Black History Month, African History Month. It
43:36
Speaker 2: requires three sixty five twenty four seven just for us
43:40
Speaker 2: to compartmentalize what are the solutions, what are the actionable deliverables,
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Speaker 2: what are the things that need to be done, not
43:49
Speaker 2: just I love that conversation from the Honorable Doctor Drew,
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Drew of Saint Kids Navius. Caracom is not
43:59
Speaker 2: a talk shop. It is a platform for action, and
44:04
Speaker 2: I encourage persons. There are many people that question these
44:08
Speaker 2: different formations. There's people that question all of the different
44:12
Speaker 2: organizational platforms. That's something that we're very good at. We're
44:17
Speaker 2: very good at questioning platforms and then taking resolve in
44:26
Speaker 2: spending a significant amount of time in the argumentation element
44:33
Speaker 2: and the definition element, which can interfere with our ability
44:38
Speaker 2: to getting significant efforts and work completed. So we're working
44:44
Speaker 2: in the direction to move beyond the chat, not that
44:49
Speaker 2: the chat is bad. You need to reason, deal with knowledge, percolate, nurture,
44:56
Speaker 2: cultivate with and teachings, get the narrative, correct, have things vetted,
45:01
Speaker 2: and move forward. Study without action is futile. Hence, many
45:09
Speaker 2: of us have were trained as organizers in our respective
45:14
Speaker 2: communities and our respective nation societies, regionally internationally to do
45:22
Speaker 2: the research and speaking and rioting and expression and marry
45:28
Speaker 2: that with organizational actionable engagement that is implemented, because then
45:37
Speaker 2: you can test things and move things forward. Just a
45:40
Speaker 2: slight suggestion. The other part that I would be remiss
45:44
Speaker 2: in not offering tonight as we get ready to close,
45:47
Speaker 2: because the intention was to keep tonight's We had a
45:50
Speaker 2: slightly late start and we're looking forward to highlighting certain things.
45:56
Speaker 2: But I think it would be important. There were a
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Speaker 2: number of broadcasts. I encourage persons to look at some
46:05
Speaker 2: of the archived recordings and broadcasts of Good Morning Barbados
46:13
Speaker 2: because there are a lot of very important issues happening
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Speaker 2: in the region that are frequently covered in that daily broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Just look for Good Morning Barbados. I think it's important
46:27
Speaker 2: to see these things and to highlight some of the
46:32
Speaker 2: conversations that have been had. I also would be remiss
46:38
Speaker 2: if I did not share a particular series of statements
46:43
Speaker 2: that were offered to us through a number of our
46:50
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters that do work in not just the
46:54
Speaker 2: Caribbean aisles, but in Central and South America, in those
47:00
Speaker 2: spaces that do impact our society indirectly as well as directly. Also,
47:08
Speaker 2: and I had another message, but I'll come back to that.
47:11
Speaker 2: I think it's really important to share some of the
47:15
Speaker 2: open correspondences that have been engaged, and we're also highlighting
47:25
Speaker 2: some of the ways in which if there's any way
47:29
Speaker 2: that you can contribute to the crises that are happening
47:35
Speaker 2: around the world, whether it's in Sudan, Cuba, Haiti, Palestine,
47:43
Speaker 2: we Spoku, in New Guinea, Congo, and the list is longer.
47:48
Speaker 2: This is a very serious time and so it's I'm
47:52
Speaker 2: going to share this very concise point here that has
47:56
Speaker 2: been offered with and to us. And some of this
48:01
Speaker 2: is coming from open led to us, where persons are
48:10
Speaker 2: really asking to all and I quote, to all of humanity,
48:16
Speaker 2: to the mothers of the world, to doctors without borders,
48:19
Speaker 2: to journalists with dignity, to the governments to still believe
48:23
Speaker 2: in justice. My name is like millions of others. I
48:27
Speaker 2: don't have a well known surname or hold an important position.
48:32
Speaker 2: I am an ordinary Cuban woman, a daughter, sister, patriot,
48:37
Speaker 2: and I write this with a broken heart and trembling
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Speaker 2: hands because what my people are experiencing today is not
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Speaker 2: a crisis. It is a slow, calculated, coldly exxecuted murder
48:51
Speaker 2: orchestrated from Washington, and the world looks the other way.
48:58
Speaker 2: I want persons to let that simmer and perkole for
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Speaker 2: a minute. That a woman residing in Cuba, where there's
49:06
Speaker 2: been an embargo over sixty years, just imagine that no
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Speaker 2: boats with food or medicine, no tankers with fuel and
49:24
Speaker 2: other resources for utilities, limitations on communication and transport air
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Speaker 2: boat or otherwise. Before, during, and after Cat of Corey
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Speaker 2: five hurricanes that have become more frequent and increasing in intensity,
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Speaker 2: there is no FEMA for Cuba. I like persons to
50:02
Speaker 2: just think about those things. And I'm going to pause
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Speaker 2: there because this is going to be part of the
50:06
Speaker 2: versation that we're going to take up when we return
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Speaker 2: on March fifth. Unless we are gifted with a bonus
50:15
Speaker 2: podcast there's so much this is going on that there's
50:18
Speaker 2: so much to share. I encourage persons to if you
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50:49
Speaker 2: Doctor chin Zero your host for US Speaks building a
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50:57
Speaker 2: points of engagement to discuss. We always remind people that
51:01
Speaker 2: culture heals humanity, Land is our foundation and spiritual harmony
51:06
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51:52
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51:57
Speaker 2: Our liberation is now what that peace