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AST SPEAKS WITH QM Dr ChenziRa Davis Kahina_AST SPEAKS LIVE EVERY 1ST & 3RD THURSDAY | DA CREW PODCAST & MEDIA NETWORK| · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 7: and life.
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  Speaker 11: The Marlagic community with dum to building up the people.
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  Speaker 7: In all we do, from island routes to global lands,
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  Speaker 7: we remember, rise and stand one African viision, reparation, spot justice,
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the Crew podcast. I
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  Speaker 6: am the Visionaire Queenie July and welcome to season two.
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  Speaker 3: All things ain't what they used to Where did all
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  Speaker 4: Well, all things.
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  Speaker 5: And what they used to be knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: At Wings of Transformation Publishing, we are committed to helping
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  Speaker 5: And I want y'all to join me May eighteenth at.
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  Speaker 5: broadcast here with the Troup Podcast Season two. This is
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  Speaker 5: a bonus episode, so you hear a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: our sing song of half a Purpose with my mother,
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  Speaker 5: Senate doctor. Let's till as we prepare to build a
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  Speaker 5: new legacy, as we sip tea have a purpose. And
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  Speaker 5: all you do is just make sure that show purpose
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  Speaker 5: to have a purpose in this hair life, sound, your life, altriving.
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  Speaker 12: Live a purposition every day so we can live and joy.
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  Speaker 12: I have a purpose and all you do just make
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  Speaker 12: show your life is true.
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  Speaker 5: Every time we walk along the streets, we see all
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  Speaker 5: the children crying, every time we see our dad. It
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  Speaker 5: scenes like people are lying everywhere that we see.
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  Speaker 12: All this birth is supposed to be about the birth,
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  Speaker 12: but it's all the thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Now we have.
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  Speaker 5: A world of confusion.
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  Speaker 12: I have a purpose and all you do is just
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  Speaker 12: make sure that show my first truth. Have a purpose,
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  Speaker 12: and this is life sounds long, life a fool.
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  Speaker 5: Let's strike.
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  Speaker 12: Live a purpose even every day. Just make sure you
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  Speaker 12: live in jut a way, have a purpose and all you.
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  Speaker 7: Do so your life is f.
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  Speaker 5: And greetings and welcome yet again to another broadcast right
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  Speaker 5: here with the Crue Podcast Season two. I am your host,
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  Speaker 5: Queen Mother doctor chen Zera. You may hear people say
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  Speaker 5: senate doctor, which means sister doctor. Because being part of
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  Speaker 5: the sisterhood, working with our sister and working with women
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  Speaker 5: near and far globally, right where we drop our bucket
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  Speaker 5: is the opportunity for us to really share and take
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  Speaker 5: things to the highest realm possible. And how we engage,
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  Speaker 5: how we learn, how we share and operate together so
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  Speaker 5: tonight we're going to have an opportunity to go over
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  Speaker 5: a number of different things. Yes, International Women's Month, and
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  Speaker 5: we bring that all the way live because every March
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  Speaker 5: there are observances. Some of it is linked to women's
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  Speaker 5: engagement in labor, equal rights and opportunities for women, breaking
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  Speaker 5: the glass ceiling, as if there even is a glass
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  Speaker 5: ceiling still left. However, it is also an opportunity here
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  Speaker 5: for those that are seeing that scenery in the background,
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  Speaker 5: that is the Maroon Sanctuary Lands here on the Isle
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  Speaker 5: of Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands, adjacent to the
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  Speaker 5: beautiful Caribbean Sea. And this is a space that holds
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  Speaker 5: very sacred, very powerful, very historic and very cultural history,
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  Speaker 5: tradition and legacy for people of African ancestry, people of
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  Speaker 5: Native Indigenous ancestral ancestry. I want to make sure I
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  Speaker 5: highlight that extension right. So, whether we're speaking of people
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  Speaker 5: that are coming from the African experience, people coming from
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  Speaker 5: that native Farmrindian indigenous experience, people that commanded, demanded and
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  Speaker 5: did all that was required for them to remain free,
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  Speaker 5: this is that space. So these are spaces now where
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  Speaker 5: there are not that many residential properties. It's really a
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  Speaker 5: space that is held as part of the territorial park
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  Speaker 5: of the Virgin Islands, one of the first ones. It
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  Speaker 5: is also a space where our ancestors of the African
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  Speaker 5: legacy authentically were able to command their freedom go into
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  Speaker 5: these spaces during the times of colonization, during the times
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  Speaker 5: of enslavement, and move off the island and go into
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  Speaker 5: this sacred waters and go to other places to command
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  Speaker 5: demand their freedom.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So when you see these lands and I intentionally keep
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  Speaker 5: them in part of this background so that we stay
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  Speaker 5: grounded as sisters, as sister queens, as sister queen mothers,
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  Speaker 5: alongside with our brothers, our brother kings, our brother king fathers,
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  Speaker 5: so that we can actually have the balance and speak
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  Speaker 5: truth to power in all of these different areas. So
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  Speaker 5: this is just another opportunity for us to be able
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  Speaker 5: to have conversation discourse. Want to say a special shout
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  Speaker 5: out to the sisters that have already tuned in, you
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  Speaker 5: know from the Crew podcasts. It's just the honor and
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  Speaker 5: the privilege to be able to be joined by other
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  Speaker 5: sistern that are doing this type of work, bringing information,
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  Speaker 5: sharing their skills, talents and expertise, their business, branding, marketing,
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  Speaker 5: their publications, their productions, and all of the other areas
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  Speaker 5: that they are sharing with not only our inner communities
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  Speaker 5: and our families and our villages, but in our regional
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  Speaker 5: communities and our national communities and our international communities to
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  Speaker 5: the best of our ability. So it gives us. It
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  Speaker 5: gives us an opportunity to really speak about a few
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  Speaker 5: things here in the Virgin Islands. March is also Virgin
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  Speaker 5: Island's History Months, So it's a time that is actually
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  Speaker 5: designated by law or the observance commemorations, celebrations of the achievements,
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  Speaker 5: host of contributions, challenges, history, culture, and just the overall
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  Speaker 5: social realities around governance, around liberation, around Jurisprovence, law, around
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  Speaker 5: health and wellness, around creative arts, of course, sciences, and
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  Speaker 5: much much more, and the contributions made by persons from
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  Speaker 5: these Virgins Islands. While I sit on the island, reside
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  Speaker 5: and work on the Isle of Saint Croix, I have
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  Speaker 5: the joint privilege of also extending my work in our
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  Speaker 5: neighboring islands that make up the Virgin Islands of the
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  Speaker 5: United States, Saint Thomas, Saint John, as well as Water Island,
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  Speaker 5: and I speak of it in that coolistic realm, because
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  Speaker 5: sometimes persons may hear about the Virgin Islands and only
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  Speaker 5: think of one island, but as you see, it's floral.
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  Speaker 5: So the idea is to remember where Saint Croix is
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  Speaker 5: known as the twin city and the cultural capital of
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  Speaker 5: the Virgin Islands. Because we have Frederickstead our western major town,
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  Speaker 5: Christianstead our eastern major town, with on eighty four square miles,
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  Speaker 5: and then in the Isle of Saint Thomas known as
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  Speaker 5: Rock City, a todd smaller search for square miles, and
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  Speaker 5: their main area is Charlotte Emily right. And again they
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  Speaker 5: do have east and west dynamics, a lot of beautiful sites,
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  Speaker 5: historic areas, wonderful public spaces. They're known more for their engagement.
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  Speaker 5: More of the cruise ship tourism focuses there in Saint Thomas,
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  Speaker 5: and then the Isle of Saint John, which they call
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  Speaker 5: Love City, which is twenty square miles and of a
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  Speaker 5: significant portion of Saint John. And I don't hold any bars.
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  Speaker 5: Twelve thousand ages right, nine thousand plus are goes are
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  Speaker 5: leased to the National Park Service, and it's preserved as
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  Speaker 5: a very significant pristine Virgin Islands National Park I think
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  Speaker 5: it's important for persons to get the context. And you
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  Speaker 5: might have heard me mention Walter Island and Walter Island
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  Speaker 5: two square miles tiny, tiny, again carry some of the
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  Speaker 5: history legacy of some of the Free Africans that have
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  Speaker 5: populated that space. Because it's very close, very adjacent to
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  Speaker 5: Saint Thomas, right by Charlotte Omiley, you can actually see it.
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  Speaker 5: Some people swim there and as well as Hassel Island,
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  Speaker 5: which is Hassel Island is also part of the National
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  Speaker 5: Park Service of the Virgin Islands. And I just think
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  Speaker 5: to just give context. Some persons are comfortable and aware
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  Speaker 5: and know what our spaces comprise, what our spaces look like,
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  Speaker 5: and are able to get some context to some of that.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna share. I like to you know, I
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  Speaker 5: am the book person, I'm the bibliophom, and so I
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  Speaker 5: know that some of the things that we tend to
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  Speaker 5: highlight here in our broadcast, especially talking about building a
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  Speaker 5: new legacy, it lets us speak about things that are
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  Speaker 5: happening current, but we want to start from a space
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  Speaker 5: where it's empowering, where it's also giving us opportunities. And
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  Speaker 5: I lean to get some other publications so that I
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  Speaker 5: can read some things that I don't like to just
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  Speaker 5: share what's coming from my head off the top of
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  Speaker 5: the cup. I like to prepare and share things that
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  Speaker 5: really bring some wellness, some holistic wellness, some upliftment in
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  Speaker 5: regards to where we are. And so I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: share this particular piece again for those persons that may
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  Speaker 5: not be familiar. Living life is a sacred practice by
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  Speaker 5: one of our sisters, sister Queen.
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  Speaker 2: Sharon Chambers.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, Sharon Paris Chambers. I always know her as
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  Speaker 5: a sister Oshun, so I tend to speak of her
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  Speaker 5: in that form. But she has a book, very nice publication,
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  Speaker 5: and we've been encouraging persons to go online. It's available
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  Speaker 5: as an ebook and it's living life as a sacred practice,
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  Speaker 5: discover yourself as a source of creation. And it's a
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  Speaker 5: wonderful publication that highlights a number of things in regard
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  Speaker 5: to reminding us that you were life, and that you
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  Speaker 5: are life, You are love, You are part of the
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  Speaker 5: essence in this case, and I'll read what was inscribed
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  Speaker 5: for me. You were life and love, the essence of womanhood,
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  Speaker 5: a queen, a shocked warrior. Never change, Let your light shine.
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  Speaker 5: And this was shared with me in her inscription for
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  Speaker 5: me when she gave me this copy of her publication
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  Speaker 5: by his sister, Queen Sharon O'shoon Parish Chambers, and it's
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  Speaker 5: available online. We can share that link as well. But
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to highlight like there's different sayings that she
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  Speaker 5: has in her publication and then there followed with these descriptors, right,
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  Speaker 5: so to just kind of give you some words, soundpower,
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  Speaker 5: some strength, as sisters, as brothers, as families, as leaders,
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  Speaker 5: as healers, as scientists, as artists, as creatives, and much more.
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  Speaker 5: Your ancient future is expressing you in the now. Did
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  Speaker 5: you hear that your ancient future is expressing.
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  Speaker 2: You in the now?
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  Speaker 5: You are the essence of life and greatness. Your genome
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  Speaker 5: holds the secret of your timeless history. Your ancient future
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  Speaker 5: is expressing you in the now at this very moment.
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  Speaker 5: You are the sum of your past, present, and future.
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  Speaker 5: Human beings are unique among creatures. They possess a fascinating
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  Speaker 5: capacity to advance their emotional intelligence. You are unique, having
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  Speaker 5: the capacity to reflect, imagine, and impact your experience with
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  Speaker 5: your thoughts and lucid dreams. Practice living in the now
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  Speaker 5: and hence your spiritual development to your imagination and faculties.
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  Speaker 5: You only have today to challenge yourself move one step
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  Speaker 5: close up to your divinity by expressing your ancient future
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  Speaker 5: in the now. So this is part of the sacred practice.
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  Speaker 5: So after she gives you the words sound power, and
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  Speaker 5: she gives you the descriptive, then Sister Queen Sharon Oshun
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  Speaker 5: Parish Chambers gives you a sacred practice, and in this
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  Speaker 5: case it's the Heart of the Rose. Find a quiet
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  Speaker 5: place to spend a minimum of ten minutes for this
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  Speaker 5: sacred practice. Reflect on the heart of the rose. Review
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  Speaker 5: the Heart of the Rose meditation, which is part of
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  Speaker 5: the reading, to recall details. The benefits of this practice
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  Speaker 5: will lure you to repeat this thousand year old practice.
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  Speaker 5: Often when practice with full intent, you become more energetic,
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  Speaker 5: more revitalized, and revivified. I have to check up and
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  Speaker 5: look up that word. That was a scrabble moment, right,
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  Speaker 5: But I want you to hear the affirmation that comes
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  Speaker 5: with this particular speace. I am energy and vibration. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to say that one more time. I am energy
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  Speaker 5: and vibration. What a fabulous way to welcome one of
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  Speaker 5: the most illustrious young sister Queens that I've had to join,
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  Speaker 5: privilege of working with teaching in certain circles, dancing with
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  Speaker 5: working on protests, on commanding publication pieces. So it is
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  Speaker 5: just an honor and a privilege for me to have
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  Speaker 5: joined us this evening, one who is skilled in as
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  Speaker 5: an international human rights lawyer, as a former soon to
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  Speaker 5: return to the legislature of the Virgin Islands former senator,
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  Speaker 5: as a founder of the Virgin Islands Youth Advocacy Coalition,
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  Speaker 5: when she was considered a youth and a host of
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  Speaker 5: other arcolodes. That I could just sit here and we could.
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  Speaker 5: I would have to sip tea for a while because
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  Speaker 5: her bio is a broadcast. So for the purposes of tonight,
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  Speaker 5: I just really want to courage our listeners, our viewers
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  Speaker 5: to remember what we started with in terms of I
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  Speaker 5: am energy and vibrations. So let us welcome our beloved
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  Speaker 5: sister Queen Attorney Genevieve. What a cur you know, this
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  Speaker 5: can get very animated.
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  Speaker 13: Yes of blessings, blessings, blessings you like and can blessings
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  Speaker 13: to all those who are.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful broadcasts.
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  Speaker 13: It is a joy month and celebrate personal history and
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  Speaker 13: celebrate as you know, you see as women and women
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  Speaker 13: around the world.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you don't have the national y.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, and it's just it's a it's a joyous and
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  Speaker 14: when we look at you know, putting these two months
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  Speaker 14: that you know, these two again months.
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  Speaker 2: Together on to some of the things you continue to
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  Speaker 2: do us as.
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  Speaker 5: People, well, I'm very great share that, yeah, and I would.
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  Speaker 13: Also share that I'm just thank you guy there for
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  Speaker 13: your continued works and bringing about I'm just the celevation
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  Speaker 13: on the love of education and untain transpire others.
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  Speaker 2: And as I continue mission, one day we'll have you women.
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  Speaker 6: To see.
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  Speaker 2: Mos how women leadership and the future friends.
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  Speaker 5: Greatful. I'm I'm also going to do my moment of
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  Speaker 5: shout outs because I definitely would like to give thanks
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  Speaker 5: to Sister Primeston that Whiteside for tuning in being part
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  Speaker 5: of this the Crew podcast you know, made possible do
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  Speaker 5: at least the invitation made to me by Sister Queen
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  Speaker 5: Angela Thomas Smith. So we just want to make sure
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  Speaker 5: we highlight the sister Queen Laonia Michelle little John, So
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  Speaker 5: I'm really grateful for the support as well as author
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  Speaker 5: Black Diamond. I see the first Assistant President General of
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  Speaker 5: the Universal Negro Improvement Association African Communities League RC twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty none other than Baba san goor bay Yay. So
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  Speaker 5: he's in the house and that could be a whole.
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  Speaker 5: That's like I said, in the future, I know that
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna be having some variety of persons joining us,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: so the persons can recognize we operate as a family,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: we operate as a village, we operate as Nishan people,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: and we come with governance and ideas that are actionable
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: when we're speaking, so some of it, Yes, we're gonna
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: have fun. We're gonna speak of things and the light
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: and all kinds of elevation conversations and meditation and the
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: vibration and energetics and all of that. But we're also
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: gonna be speaking of things. Remember the hashtag actionable deliverables.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Things that we can speak about, but things that we
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: can implement practice that are tangible that help save our children,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: our men, our women, our families and our communities long term.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I also would like to send a special shout out
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: to Sister Queen Thomas. Thank you very much for sharing
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: and just bringing this energy with us through us all
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: the time and offering that kind of support because each
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: one teach one, while each one heal one. We're going
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: to be bringing some of that into the fruition of
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: our conversation this evening. I see brother David Christian, who
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: is like the podcast stop. I don't even call him podcaster,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: the podcast stop right because he has been doing this
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: for a long time and using different platforms right here
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: in the Virgin Islands and making sure that just about
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: everybody that has something of substance to say and is
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: doing the work. Brother David Christian, just no, I see you,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: I seal right, and I want to give thanks and
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: praise for the support in that regard. Frederick Beatti would
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: like to say good evening as well as we continue
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: this conversation and another one of our form runners, Freedom
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: five Ties, you know, trail Blaze us right here in
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: the Bulgian Islands. She claimed everything though she just she
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: claimed Belgian Islands, Caribbean, America's the Earth right, But yes,
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: brother day, I love it. But I'm also sharing a
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: shout out in a lot of respect to our media
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: specialists like no other powerful artist, creative money professor, all
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: of that and some in addition to being a mother
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: awesome one at that. And that's nothing other than sister
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Queen Daha Anita Cooper. Anybody can go and you see
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Dara Monita Cooper just a bazilion connections, teaching media, taking
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: it to the next level, so that those of us
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: that may not have all of the skills, talents and
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: expertise on some of these media spaces if you don't know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: link with her again, branding, marketing, that's part of her
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: her em. And I'm really grateful to have my god
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: daughter Darwinica Cooper join us as well. And I see
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: and I don't know if he's been in this network
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: and see me in this capacity, So I'm very grateful
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: to see Chief Walking Eagle. We know him as Brother TESTROYD. Phillips,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Senior of Opia Tano International, heling through Saint Thomas, representing
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: the entire Virgin Island Caribbean Americas in terms of indigenous
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Titano Kalinago culture and traditions. In addition to being a
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: real serious, serious, I'm gonna keep saying it, serious athletics coach.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have to have him come on the show.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: That's gonna be probably a little bit of humor, because
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: that's a whole the Phillips tribe. That's a whole conversation
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: in of itself. And I'm very very grateful for sisters
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: and brothers that are tuning in sharing with us to
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: be part of this conversation so we can just go
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: right all a minute like we usually do. Sister Queen Genevieve,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm really grateful that you were able to
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: share with us because I know you have your own
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: broadcaster for doing, you know, in your preparation for your
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: next layer of returning to legislature and continue to serve
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: as an ongoing, pragmatic, proactive leader in our community here
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: in the Nton Islands. So I would really love for
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: you to just think about the Virgin Islands Youth Advocacy Coalition,
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: what motivated you to establish that, and some of the
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: things that are particular to how you deal with observances,
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: you know, whether it's Virgin Island's history, Women's history, the
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: United Nations observance from March from the Perth, you know
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: regarding the International Day honoring victims of enslavement and the
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: transagnantic slave trade, you know, whatever. I know that you've
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: served as a representative to different initiatives, whether it's through
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: the Obama administration as well as the Permanent Form for
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: People of African Descent in the International Decade for People
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: of African Descent and other iterations of international work. So
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: please share some of that with us. What were your motivations?
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: What are the things you would like us to bring
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: us a call to action tonight?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And I can tell you back
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine when you know, one of
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: the things that was about Halloween brands, and.
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: So I started started the organizations.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: Interesting plag my each child and I because I really
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: wanted to go organization that is focused on ours in
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: politics and I supported a number.
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: So very early on in bioc's history, we were called
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: to testify the number of senators in Hus.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: We had one year.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: We actually used report card to focus on what senators
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: in the.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: Verse rounds were essentially working on youth and civics le legislation.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: It was very interesting and I do want.
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: To thank all the senators that time who really said
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: took part a majority, they take part, so they take
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: a little offense, but I explained to them and they
• 32:41
  Speaker 13: had their role breakfast system in place and the senators
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: certainly who offered legislation to support youth by higher points,
• 32:49
  Speaker 13: and one of those senators in particular to highlight its
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: former Senator Positive Nelson, who actually created the Legislative Device Council.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: And so in many ways we supported that, testified and supported.
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: That legislation and then did a lot of the recruitment
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: of young people from children children as was from both.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: The districts with Saint crinctonomy and now district, and so
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I was very out of that effort.
• 33:15
  Speaker 13: We also got very involved also to engaging on a
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: matter of civics HELPNY schools. And so we also testified
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: when we support US and France's as a measure to mandate.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: A Civics course in order to graduate. And there was
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: also the Board of Education on the technoledge for a
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: board member very more.
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: Head to actually from being a civics conference where I
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: was invited as the president to give you my thoughts
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: on why we actually made civics from can I got
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: into pop and even get into preschool because I still
• 33:52
  Speaker 13: believe that if when we get to a point in
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: the vision as we were teaching civics from preschool to
• 33:57
  Speaker 13: twelfth grade, we're going to see a lot more young
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: people interested in politics. They're going also they're going to vote,
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: participating in the process as well as it's.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Going to really help push our lead if the leadership
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: as a whole. We live in a country that doesn't
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: really support CIVIS and the national data is free alarming.
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: As I shared, we've recently shared in one of our
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: initiatives were pushing through BIAC and having conversations with the
• 34:22
  Speaker 13: youth that by.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: In large, it's a twenty two percent of the national
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: base in terms of young.
• 34:27
  Speaker 13: People who are you know, who are who are basic
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: under censors and that's a very low number.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And so in the visions my industry we.
• 34:35
  Speaker 13: Have compiled the information and data is something we're also
• 34:38
  Speaker 13: very passionate about and unfortunately it's not done enough. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: do urge, you know, us to really examine how many
• 34:44
  Speaker 13: of our children are graduating from school now being that
• 34:46
  Speaker 13: disimanded of course, and how many children really understand civic
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: and it's not just do you know who your senators are?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: How especially for them that and so I will definitely
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: say we have our work cutoff for us, but and
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I also.
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: Don't acknowledge with this has been involving yourself, doctor Eu,
• 35:04
  Speaker 13: because when we talk now about what we've done at
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: the international level, I have the pleasure in honor of
• 35:11
  Speaker 13: you know, a number.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Of conveniences at the university.
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: Also that time I was teaching their part time teaching
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: courses and crime invention teaching course of course, a business law,
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: business in Munication and other courses. And that the Gen
• 35:24
  Speaker 13: Zero in her capacity as the as the head of
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: director of the Personal Spot and Cultural Center, held a
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: number and she's the one that really introduced me to
• 35:34
  Speaker 13: the concepts around the International decade, because before it was
• 35:38
  Speaker 13: the International Decade of the African Descent, it was international
• 35:41
  Speaker 13: recognition of the national year to recognize the fool African Descent.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: And so doctor Gen Zero has been long involved in
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: what we term an.
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: Idpad at those of future you know, we follow me
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: and based books hashtag id pad and I encourage you
• 35:55
  Speaker 13: all to do that.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: But we see idepad where we're recognizing us.
• 35:59
  Speaker 13: Our recognition that development justice for us with black people
• 36:02
  Speaker 13: of Africic ascent.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And so we started that pretty very early, very early on.
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: We actually Bayack took part in the cayman A University
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: held they held the annual conference of the conference every
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: Fear where doctor Carla Corbin was sitting speaker that the
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: corman for those who are not aware, and doctor Corbin
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: was the external.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Face advisors for several governors and up until governor from
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Turnble and and essentially essentially you have essentially have with
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: in the case of.
• 36:41
  Speaker 13: Doctor Corbin who is mentioned, a lot of people who
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: mentioned being other members of the organization. So we presented
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: at that conference. We presented basically you know, our thoughts
• 36:53
  Speaker 13: around the econization and intended that conference in Bayack has
• 36:59
  Speaker 13: not a lot of things in terms of con contest.
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  Speaker 2: Of you know, care Com.
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: We've been pushing, we've been asking for the administrations and
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: more than one now of you know joining as an
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: associate member. And I've done that through my capacity by
• 37:12
  Speaker 13: it as well as my.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: As an activist.
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: And with that, just fast forwarding to twenty sixteen, I
• 37:21
  Speaker 13: was selected as a fellow for the National Decade for
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: bol African Descent we conclude this year, and with that,
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: through the fellowship, raising my capacity in how to advocate
• 37:36
  Speaker 13: at an international level. So it did involve as very
• 37:39
  Speaker 13: intense fellowship where we have to present. I had the
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: pleasure of presenting on a matter of our colonial issues.
• 37:47
  Speaker 13: Right to vote him, that's a major one. Our help
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: rights economics, you know, every thing we can think of
• 37:54
  Speaker 13: in terms of when we talk with him the rights,
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: so we say the colonization, we're talking about all these things.
• 38:00
  Speaker 13: And with that and I just for by way of
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: background to those listeners, and so it's a viewing.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: On my on my my I honed my understand of
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: human rights on the Redding in off school.
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: One of my credentials is having actually study international human
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: rights slaw.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: So I've been lived for quite some time.
• 38:22
  Speaker 13: And so for the Follos was a great opportunity for
• 38:24
  Speaker 13: me to find to really build those skills, build local
• 38:28
  Speaker 13: skills even further. And I can tell you into presenting
• 38:31
  Speaker 13: an international level is very technical for those who are unfamiliar.
• 38:37
  Speaker 13: You have to present in about three minutes. So I
• 38:41
  Speaker 13: have to take basically, you know, decades of versions oppression
• 38:46
  Speaker 13: and put it into a one page doctumnities for the.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Whole points very finance and.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: So and with that is you know the next shoal
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: went at the end enough to percent and I say
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: that to same one.
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: It's something that doesn't as zer and I have talked
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: about with others we have there's a training that has
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: to happen. Even when we talk about local advocacy, it
• 39:13
  Speaker 13: requires training. When you study all the movements and the
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: civil rights they did a lot of training.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: If those you can.
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: Watching most recent we have during that History month, a
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: lot of the advocates, all the things.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: That took place, they plan, they plan, and they trained,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: and so we have.
• 39:31
  Speaker 13: One of the things that I'm going to being to
• 39:34
  Speaker 13: work on is really training on community action and there's
• 39:38
  Speaker 13: a method and there's a way.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: To get things across in the community.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I'm very thankful for you sharing what you shared because
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: it gives some context because you're absolutely correct. It was
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: an International Year for People of African Descent or Honor
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: about twenty eleven, and from that than the actual UN
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: designated International Decade the People of African Descent was put
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: in place for being effected from January twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: forgive me, until twenty twenty four December the end of
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: this year. However, many persons don't even know that there
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: was an international let me be very specific, A United
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Nations General Assembly designated International Decade for People of African
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: descent that comes to a close December third first of
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: this year, and there's a movement now and recommendations and
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: documents and testimony in place to encourage the General Assembly
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: to extend this International Decade, so there will be a second,
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: proposed second International Decade for people of African descent where
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: we can actually put some more actionable, deliberable boots to
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: the ground efforts to really address recognition, justice and development
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: for people of African ancestry. Also, what exists is this
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: permanent homeen which has been in place from last year.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: It's been giveful and from twenty twenty two. They have
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: their first convening in twenty twenty two December, and then
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: they have another conveniing last spring in twenty twenty three,
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: and then they will have their third convening that is
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: scheduled for this April in Geneva. I believe between Honor
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: about the fourteenth to the seventeenth of April. And it's
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: really important for persons to be aware that many of
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: the persons that are in the forefront of some of
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: these efforts are women of African descent. I just need
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: to highlight that women of the world are engaged, but
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: these particular efforts have really been led them the current
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: the incoming the former presidents in her situation of the
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Permanent Forum for People of back Home Descent with doctor
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: epste Campbell, and I just think it's important. I think
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: it's important to know well Campbell Epstey, it's after read
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: of her her other last name and known as doctor Campbell,
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: and I think it's important that people know that. And
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: she's a former vice president, one of the first women
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: of African ancestry to be a vice president in the
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: country of Costa Rica, and I think it's important out
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: coming out of that leadership position. She then led in
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: the first in the first nouns with the perminic Forum
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: for People of backcam Descent within the un and is
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: continuing to serve in that particular forum. And this year
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: it's moving to a new president, none other than doctor
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: Jim Schumer out of Saint Lucian Appre you know, very
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: active in her coom, you know, very knowledgeable, were coming
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: out of the academic space of the University of the
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: West Indies, but also very close, very tied to doing
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: work you know with Chara com in other Caribbean America's
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Africa europe global efforts. And I think it's really critical
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: for persons to just be aware that these programs, these initiatives,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: these institutions do exist. And here we have a number
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: of Virgin Islanders.
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: That are.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And that and so for those who are listening at
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: the forefront.
• 43:41
  Speaker 13: And doctor Michael were the forefront of the establishments of
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: the Permanent.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Forum for People were for.
• 43:53
  Speaker 13: HM and Michael Fushion was us leading us engaging around
• 43:57
  Speaker 13: the world.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: And so that's why and little and here I know
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: this first time. It's not easy being.
• 44:10
  Speaker 13: So small because a lot of times I have to
• 44:12
  Speaker 13: go into these rooms and I have to remind people that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I am present. We are present on thanks together.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: And she's happened to say that last no, say that
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: last part one more time please.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: And so that's what.
• 44:40
  Speaker 13: I think you went.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: At the maybe on the conversation which we haven't.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Attended in years.
• 44:51
  Speaker 13: It's because we ourselves are now moving our It puts
• 44:54
  Speaker 13: to Verson's in a very bad position when we don't
• 44:57
  Speaker 13: participate in the U N and care com. And that's
• 45:00
  Speaker 13: why I like time we talk, Oh, what's our territories?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Say yes.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: A lot of times you will find that because some of.
• 45:07
  Speaker 13: The other territories leaders are advocating at the national level
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: and putting that pressure they they oftentimes aren't being dealt
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: and given given much better privileges even under the colonial framework.
• 45:22
  Speaker 13: The versions is a lot of absence myself at your
• 45:24
  Speaker 13: other advocates at the core menu.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: While he's not much, there's.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: Advisor to continues to remain committed to our.
• 45:33
  Speaker 13: Rights and virginal lenders, and so he participates and me
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: in these meetings where our government, I mean that's our
• 45:40
  Speaker 13: governor and the person that he.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Personally had points to the extrong PRIs advisor and that
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: that position has.
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: Been vacant since the Young administration, and it was only
• 45:48
  Speaker 13: a couple of years of confusing to the Young administration
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: when we actually had someone in that position. So as
• 45:56
  Speaker 13: those of you online and those are listening at Theaholis
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: podcasts as well calls, I will say though myself there
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: and others, we remain committed to this work.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: So whether the governor, the sites that ever show up, whatever,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: but we.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: Also let them know. I want to highlight that I
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: don't wish this stuff just go like right, we come
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: back and we tell people, well, this is what's happening.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: And this is what they said, and this is what
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: it looks like, and these are the questions some of
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: us have been for those will get the joke from this,
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Some of us will be in these spaces, these international spaces,
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: videotape footage and send it live so that our community
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: is a where our leaders are aware, even if it's
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: not necessarily their priority at this particular time, because we
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: recognize that there are a number of priorities that are
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: crucial here in the Virgin Islands, within our Caribbean America's spaces,
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: et cetera. And I just want to make sure that
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: I highlight that because I don't wish for people to
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: think this like we just go and just do whatever
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: we want. Our thing is to make sure that we
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: are inclusive and not excluded from some of these engagements
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: like that support because people will say that I've been
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: to CARACM Convenience, I've been to Caribbean Pan African Network convenience,
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  Speaker 5: I've been at Latin American Eastern Caribbean Commission convenience and
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: African Union convened. I can go through this list and
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  Speaker 5: people ask the minute they hear that you're from the
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  Speaker 5: Virgin Islands and yes, I tie my connections to the
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  Speaker 5: wider Caribbean because my family's from several islands and grew
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: up in these different English speaking, Spanish speaking, Dutch and
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Parpiamental speaking French speaking spaces. But this is which part
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  Speaker 5: I live. This is where I get to teach and
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: share and engage. And it's really critical for us to
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: be able to have this information and offer these sharing
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: so people know that the Virgin Islands is part of
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  Speaker 5: the Caribbean too, and that we have voice and presence
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  Speaker 5: and achievements and contributions and greatness and vibration and energy
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  Speaker 5: and exemplary scholars, not just regular scholars like exemplary right,
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  Speaker 5: we have persons that are have contributed to significant change
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  Speaker 5: for the human circumstance and condition globally, coming from Anti
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  Speaker 5: Ford square miles their to four square of miles, two
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  Speaker 5: Anti square miles, even two square mouths Watter Island. It's
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: really important for persons to get that. And then our
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: sisters and brought us in the British Virsion Islands because
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: most of us have some kind of tie connection between Tortola,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: Virgin Gorda, Jos van Dyke and Nagata and then it's
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: spreads the wider Caribbean Americas, so that that way, the
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: minute we start asking about our grandparents and our great
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: great grand parents, it will keep us in a very
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: wide space, so that we actually are more global than
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  Speaker 5: sometimes we even believe we are, while still being grounded
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  Speaker 5: in the greatness and the richness of this space we
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  Speaker 5: know is the Virgin Islands. And I want to highlight
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  Speaker 5: that Virgin Islands of the United States our legal name,
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  Speaker 5: according to the Revised Organic Act of the nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 5: four that's still in effect, legal name Virgin Islands of
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: the United States USBI is easy to say, it's more
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: tourists appropriate. However, our legal name is Virgin Islands first
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  Speaker 5: of the United States. Afterwards, I just need people to
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  Speaker 5: get that clarity when people think about the Virgin Islands,
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  Speaker 5: that you recognize Caribbean people predominantly people of African ancestry,
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  Speaker 5: a large population tied to indigenity and native I'merindian culture
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  Speaker 5: and traditions grounding this space, very spiritual, very sacred space.
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  Speaker 5: Needs to highlight that. So don't get twists on just
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  Speaker 5: san seas soun and fun. There's a whole realm of
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: greatness around the arts and sciences that govern the universe,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: that are connected to this space. So that's why when
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: we're speaking about some of these things and we highlight
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: some of these conversations we're saying, and people may think,
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: oh mind, they're a little bit on the rabble rouser side.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna take that as a compliment. I'm sure they
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: had names for people like Nelson Mandela too. I'm sure
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: they had names with people like Martin Luther King, Malcolm
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: X where we're going, Reverend Edward Wilman Lyde and Ruby Browse.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying we can say some names, Marianne Golden, Christopher,
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  Speaker 5: we could remase some right, Hubert Harrison, you don't know
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  Speaker 5: where we can go with this. You understand there's a
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  Speaker 5: number of persons, even ours are named after great you know,
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  Speaker 5: Edith Williams. I'm just saying, you know, Rothschild, Francis, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's people right here in the Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 5: that made such an impact on global affairs. People forget
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: that someone from small space like Saint Croix. And I
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: keep coming back to Hubert Harrison for a couple of reasons,
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: because people think of him as just being radical and
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: the philosopher. And he used to call him Black Socrates.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: That's not an easy title of whole when someone when
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: a when a when a community refers to as the
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: Black Socrates in terms of his philosophy and his ability
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: to speak and have skills and journalism, and that he
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: took time to teach a very great one how to
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: speak in public, none other than the Honorable Marcus Messiah Garvey.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, there's some things from a small space,
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: small space space much larger out of Jamaica, but a
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: lot of things come out of this, this this realm.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: So that's why I'm very grateful. I'm looking at I'm
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: looking at some of these comments as well, Sister Queen Jennevie,
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: So I want to make sure I sent a special
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: shout out to sister Queen Moya and Zuri of the
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: A P R P. Nana. I know it's Nana Yauphibia right,
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: and so it's a powerful vibe to have her even
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: tune in and sharing and reminding us to stay ready,
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: ready systems. She's just saying stay ready right and giving
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: thanks to praise to we see your rescue. Yes, Okay, Sorry,
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  Speaker 5: got a little excited to just as you know, and
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: I see my, I see one of my one of
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: my my, my, my, my road sister always say rolling
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: with Stormy with sister Queen Stormy, you know, coming out
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: of planet marketing and tell and travel really offering business
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: opportunities for us to be able to take this particular
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: work to the next level. I want to give thanks
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: for the support, the presence and again any of the
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: reflections and comments, because this is a conversation. Yes, and
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Sister Queen Genevieve and I we do this frequent, so
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: we're we're just bringing out a couple of key points
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: of things that are linked to International Women's Months, linked
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: to Virgin Island's history months, and observances therein observations around
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: the permanent form the people of African descent. They just
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: you know, look at the UN site UN dot org.
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: Just go there and navigate and see for yourself what
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: has been taking place that is connected to absolutely absolutely,
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: so I know that they're gonna look at us because
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: you see how that hour just went like, so please share.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: There's some things. Greeting system, tribute to parents is always
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: an other privilege. Then off for strength, give us strength,
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: give us energy, give us that vibration. That's what we're
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: speaking of.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: And and the men who were on you know, it's
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: it's always powerful.
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  Speaker 13: I remember when I was a member of the Uniationous
• 54:25
  Speaker 13: Women's Committee with the US National Communee, you and women,
• 54:28
  Speaker 13: and I was in Florida and we had you know,
• 54:31
  Speaker 13: females and the you know who were part of the
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: board and supported women's right.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: So those powerful when you know we have males supporting
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  Speaker 2: them's usership.
• 54:39
  Speaker 13: And I can definitely tell you it is about staying righty,
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: I will say, though, it's about us getting ready and
• 54:46
  Speaker 13: so for as I was encouraged.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: For those who are interested, I've done that before.
• 54:50
  Speaker 13: So about a few years back, four years part fighters,
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: you know prior every four years we have an opportunity
• 54:57
  Speaker 13: to take part in our Colley Wes Universal Periodic Review.
• 55:01
  Speaker 13: I sendated the version on its first report. If they
• 55:04
  Speaker 13: take a while to put together. I basically had a
• 55:06
  Speaker 13: log about sixty seven years of r also history in
• 55:10
  Speaker 13: terms of how many promises we've the US has made
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  Speaker 13: to us about our status and about the one attempt
• 55:18
  Speaker 13: in version's history that we made to address our status.
• 55:22
  Speaker 13: So now and of course for the Constitution. I do
• 55:24
  Speaker 13: want to highlight and encourage folks. I am was one
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  Speaker 13: of the sponsors of the legation that resulted in the
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: creation of the sixth antipre Invention and Effort.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I do athology and Center of General Sudo as a
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: transponsoral myself and essentially that is an act in human
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: rights and so.
• 55:43
  Speaker 13: Soon you know, so again two women, you know, promote
• 55:46
  Speaker 13: something that's an important that which is our private constitution
• 55:48
  Speaker 13: document and encouraged persons to run process and.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Input the input. As an editor for the fifth I.
• 55:56
  Speaker 13: Remember just you know, just having you know, it's a
• 55:59
  Speaker 13: powerful thing to have that gender balance, and I continue
• 56:03
  Speaker 13: to ask for that, you know, there and us to
• 56:05
  Speaker 13: be more intentional, so as a senator than from an
• 56:08
  Speaker 13: office as sponsor. Gender equally, I would like to see
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  Speaker 13: in the worst violence, our wards and commissions be equitable
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  Speaker 13: general gender actly and.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was large supporter, but I then could
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: definitely tell you there were and it was more efforts
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: more unfortunately, it was a lot more of men, more
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: men and women.
• 56:28
  Speaker 13: And even I'll put out publicly, I was really disappointed
• 56:32
  Speaker 13: that we have the daily news editor, said Minister Female,
• 56:38
  Speaker 13: who was disappointed by legislation, so as we as we.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Navigate Women's Instrum Month and Noman's rights.
• 56:47
  Speaker 13: One of the things I called to action and challenge
• 56:49
  Speaker 13: to us as women is to overcome our personal differences.
• 56:54
  Speaker 13: There is to work in together for our common cause.
• 56:58
  Speaker 13: There isn't a sort of higher friendship. It is a
• 57:00
  Speaker 13: blessing to have friendship. A lot of what keeps us back.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: And withinniverse rounds, So it is that divide, you know.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: But I do want to say my interest what's.
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  Speaker 13: Successful, and that's really just you know, for me, you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 13: gender putting our boards. I'm looking for more women in
• 57:18
  Speaker 13: public office, you know, publical office.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 13: I spent a decade involved in getting myself ready to run.
• 57:26
  Speaker 13: I thought women along with me to these Bookay yes,
• 57:33
  Speaker 13: and I encourage that.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: And I do appreciate how many women you have leadership positions.
• 57:38
  Speaker 13: And then with that, continue to remind yourself that you
• 57:41
  Speaker 13: are a woman meeting and fighting against a lot of
• 57:44
  Speaker 13: the issues we face as women and being able to
• 57:47
  Speaker 13: reach out and help another sister. And the more we
• 57:50
  Speaker 13: reach out and help another system. But I see, and
• 57:55
  Speaker 13: so one of the things that I'm working is about
• 57:57
  Speaker 13: reach on building. I would like to start building very
• 58:00
  Speaker 13: interested if you should be interested. I want to hear folks,
• 58:04
  Speaker 13: you know, raise their hands and say yes, let's let's
• 58:06
  Speaker 13: go along, let's go to the un need. And as
• 58:08
  Speaker 13: a pertain to women, that's let us let us get together.
• 58:14
  Speaker 13: And I do acknowledge some of the things happening locally.
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  Speaker 13: We have organizations as support women and Call to Action
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: is really authentic leadership.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of entities organizations that do bring
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: women together. I say they're also too. Authenticity is important.
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  Speaker 5: Brand well mm hmm, yeah, I want you to come
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  Speaker 5: together with some of those tim goals you keep sharing
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  Speaker 5: that point the harmony. M yeah, because part of what well,
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: two things I want to take that we need that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, mm hmm. Can you hear a job?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I was hearing. I have to mute. I think
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  Speaker 5: when we're not speaking, there seems to be some distortion.
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  Speaker 5: So I just wanted to I'm muting when you're speaking,
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  Speaker 5: so that you can do the same when I'm speaking.
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  Speaker 5: But I just hope. But I wanted to thank you
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: because we're getting to our closing element. But I wanted
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: to thank you for just joining us. Tonight on building
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: a New Legacy, which is part of the Crew Podcast
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: season two. In this particular platform and network, I want
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: to really extend my appreciation for you giving some context
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: to some of the things that we do around International
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: Women's Month, around virgin Oalyt's history, around the Permanent Forum
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: for People of African Descent, around the International Decade the
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: People of African Descent, around activities that support youth, what
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: you've been able to do as an academic, what you've
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: been able to do in the wider communitarian grassroots work
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: that you're involved in. You know, you've done things across
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: along not just general political structuring and infrastructure development and improvement,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: but also around preparatory justice, reparations, human rights, education, and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: specifically not just educational reform, but transformation of education, which
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: is very different right in terms of you know, whether
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: it's curriculu standards, assessment, evaluation, ethics, civics policy. So I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: just would like persons to just acknowledge and be familiar
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: that that's some of the realms of some of the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: areas that you have contributed to and continue to contribute to,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: specifically making sure that the succession planning approach of making
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: sure that as we become elders, that we have already
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: prepared another set of generations plural to be able to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: carry on this work and take it to even a
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: more elevated space.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: For that, I'm very grateful for the work and the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: opportunity to just you know, be part of the journey
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: is that we share and the journeys that I may
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: have started, but that I'm comfortable enough to know that
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: they're going to be, that they're in place right and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: that you have done and you're doing the same thing
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: with making sure that there's that next layer of generation
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: builders that are going to be doing this particular work.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: I wanted to also make sure that I highlight for
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: our listeners and viewers. You'll hear us speaking of doctor
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: Carlyle Corbyn and Doctor Carlyle Corbyn not only continues to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: serve within as an international governance advisor to various nations, republics,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: communities inclusive of presidential councils inside of the United Nations,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: but he served under as an international Governance Advisor and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: professional and specialist a KA ambassador within the Government of
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 5: the Virgin Islands for five different administrations, not one not
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: two five. So what you were hearing, Attorney Genevieve Whittaker
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: Chaer was based on skills, talents, and expertise of a
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: very powerful brother that works to replicate and teach his skill,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: talented and expertise to the generations coming forward, so that
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: that way we are able to keep this momentum moving
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: forward when we speak of freedom, liberation, recognition, justice, development, revolution,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: reparatory justice, reparations, restitute, whatever it is that we need
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: to do to build a stronger community, stronger nation, stronger society.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: So we do our part amongst our shared humanity. Right,
• 1:02:41
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• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: shout out to Reverend Petris Byron, who's handling with tuning
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  Speaker 5: well and for all of you that we're able to
• 1:02:53
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• 1:02:56
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• 1:03:20
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• 1:03:22
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• 1:03:45
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