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SEASON 2 EPISODE _112 _ DA CREW PODCAST _HOST QUEENMOTHER DR_ CHENIZRA · DA CREW Podcast

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of through little pieces, primarily because I've had the honor and privilege of having
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the experience that I'd love to share with our viewers and our listeners. Most
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eloquently, we had the opportunity to be an invited guest to the Golden Jewbilee
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celebration of her Royal Majesty, Queen Vicky Lextar of the Omayye Royal Kingdom,
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alongside the celebrations that were for her as a Royal Majestine and Queen, and
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also for His Royal Highness Prince Josiah her Son. I think it's wonderful when
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a mother and son can celebrate their birthday, their solar anniversary and bring that
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kind of love, care, hospitality, loyalty, spiritual grounding and just putting
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the Creator at the center of the celebration so they were gifting while being gifted.
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There was song, dance, exceptional song and dance, classical music,
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African traditional music. It was an amazing experience and in my capacity as the
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as an Ambassador at Large of the IDOL Network International alongside the global African Diasporic
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Kingdom, I can only say that it was an honor and a privilege to
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just be and invited guests readings to Queen Chanette. Thank you so much for
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joining and tuning in. I always say I give thanks and praise for the
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Queen of collabororeation, visionaiery, powerful and empowered African queen woman and my sister
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Angela. I've always put out a special shout out for her because she's been
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able to bring me into this particular community to be able to share some of
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my words, some of my thoughts, some of my deeds, some of
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my ideas, and also things that are linked to when we say Ast speaks,
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so persons are really clear ancestral sacred tradition. Os is also known as
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the divine Mother, the divine matriarch, the divine feminine. Don't we get
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a chance to speak about those types of things alongside building a new legacy and
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really building a new legacy that has some degree of strength, some degree of
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power, some degree of force wherever we are, whether we are in the
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forty eight contiguous US, whether we are in the Caribbean. I'm currently hailing
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from Saint Croix. What you see in my background is the Maroons Sanctuary Lands,
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which is part of Saint Croix's National Heritage Area designation. And we can
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go into that conversation into perpetuity because it's something that we've worked very hard as
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a community to be able to have that national federalism that may not understand designation
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as a National Heritage Area. All at four square miles of the island of
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Saint Curi nestled within the Virgin Islands of the United States, and there's a
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lot that we get an opportunity to speak to. In that regard, I
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also am very grateful for our sisters and brothers that are sharing with us in
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various ways and streams. How we begin to talk about our speaks and building
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a new legacy and really what are the steps of building a new legacy.
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So there's a number of things that have been happening in this region. We
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also send a powerful request for persons to go to the disaster recovery websites for
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Jamaica, for Saint Vincent and Grenadine's as well as Grenade all and to be
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able to help our sisters and brothers who are literally experiencing forms of devastation from
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Hurricane Burrow's visit and passage through our Caribbean aisles as well as the Isle of
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Barbados. And whilst Barbados and Jamaica have returned have resumed most of their services,
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utilities are being restored, they're open for business in many respects, we
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still have brothers and sisters in those spaces that do not have current electricity,
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Persons that are challenged by having clean walter on and of course having you know,
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certain foods, items and clothing, damage to their homes, et cetera.
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And as a multiple survivor a category five hurricanes right here in the Isle
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of Saint Croix, I say that this is a time for not only a
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moment of silence to share energy and spiritual prayers or strength and resilience for our
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sisters and brothers in the region, but it's a time for us. Whatever
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you can share, whatever you can do, whatever you're able to encourage others
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to donate, Please donate and donate prem because persons going to take hundreds of
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millions, possibly billions of dollars in US currency to restore order, utilities,
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homes, healthcare, other resources, and the restoration of various building blocks of
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the societies in this region. So that's another reason why all of the conversations
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around climate change become very important. And I say that so that we recognize
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that you know, each one. I always say, each one teaches one,
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while each one heals one. And we're having an opportunity to speak truth
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to power around how do we address climate change, how do we decolonize the
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way that we look at climate resilience, How do we decolonize how we actually
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help one another during times of severe disaster that may appear to be natural,
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when in fact the talents, the things, the input of humanity. If
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we don't desire to stay alive, that whole conversation of stay alive at one
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point five becomes important. That zero increase in any of the emissions that impact
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our earth and our community becomes really central through our conversation. So I think
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it's really important for person to just keep that in the front of how we're
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bringing things together. You know, we're encouraging people to look at the podcast
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crew and just really get some ideas. You know that you can also listen
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and tune in on link tree at the Crew podcast and correct myself d A
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C R E W P O D c Ast twenty three. I think it's
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important for persons to really listen tune in so our time zones. It's eight
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pm Atlantic and Eastern because we're on the same time now, and of course
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that's five pm in the Pacific, and we can do the math in between.
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We have some of our sisters and brothers that are tuning in from the
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UK and that's five hours later on, so that would actually be at one
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am, and then we have some of our brothers and sisters tuning in from
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Tanzania, which is seven hours ahead, so that tune brings us into a
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space of three and so we really want to be able to identify a couple
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of things. I'm very grateful, thank you for putting the Facebook pages on
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here as well as the YouTube page of here, and we're encouraging people.
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You can go to as Speaks, ast Speaks ost Speaks on YouTube as well
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as on Facebook. You can also go to my Chinsera Kahina page, so
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that way you can tune in and share with some of the others in your
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respective community. But I wanted to take some time tonight, you say,
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I have guests, and literally I've been traveling for over twenty hours and when
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I hit the ground here on Saint Croix, I've been working at the Bambulla
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Journey's exhibition that I've curated at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts that opens
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with a wonderfully welcoming reception on July sixth, last Saturday before last, and
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it was a wonderful opportunity for all of us to really look into a couple
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of areas around what is Bambulla journey, what does that mean? And what
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is Bamboula Because Bambooa is not only the music, the dance song. Bamboola
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is a way that we communicate, a way that we bring truth to power
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in how we engage with one another. So that we can highlight a couple
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of things. So I'll share this with our beloved viewers and listeners that comes
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from the Bamboola Journeys, and this particular exhibition, Bambulla Journeys is highlighted around
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a very rich retrospective Indigenous Caribbean cultural African art exhibition. So it's from my
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private collection which includes some of my private work. And as people see me
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as an artist more soul, as a performing artist, or as a filmmaker,
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or as an author, as a poet, as a spoken word author.
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I love to paint. I love photography, and I love putting my
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photographs in different mediums and mixing it up a bit so that that way people
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can have to experience the immersion of what I see through my lens, coming
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from my heart, coming from my spiritual spaces. And Bamboula, and I
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share this quote that's part of the exhibition. Bambolla is more than a representation
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of music, dance, song, theatre. Bamboula represents more than a dance
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step style for performance in public entertainment. And want me to make sure persons
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hear that it represents a socio cultural, a socio political, a psycho spiritual
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extra change and engagement that uses body, mind, spirit and consciousness with sacred
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traditions, inspirational vision and freedom from physical, mental, and spiritual bondage on
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a multiplicity of dimensions. So the persons get an idea of what we speak
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of. And I encourage people just put in Bambula. You can probably put
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in Bambula, per unc Bambulah our speaks for Bambullah, doctor Chinzerah in Google,
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Google, Scholar, MetaCrawler, or any search engine and it will earn.
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It will actually provide you with an opportunity to really see and a couple
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of things in our forefront. So that I have people that are trying to
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tune into the broadcast with me live here, and I think that it's important
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to let people know that some of our conversations are for us to be able
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to talk about the energy, the love, the respect that we have on
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one another. I think it's also important for persons to get an idea that
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this collaborative art exhibition that is done at the Karethian Museum Center for the Arts,
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and I encourage people go to smcarts dot org and you will be able
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to get a very wonderful infusion and experience of some of the things that are
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happening right here on the Isle of Saint Croix that actually bring the arts,
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education, culture, heritage, historic preservation, edification, spirituality, jazz,
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all forms of music, and of course dance in a very respectful, very
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engaging way. I think it's really important to let people know that some of
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the work that we're doing here is around our ability to highlight some of these
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conversations that we have around the Enlightenment, the aspirations of how we begin to
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offer all of our skills, talents and expertise here as aspiring authors. So
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I'm really excited and looking forward to the Footsteps publication because that brings a number
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of areas to and they're reminding me that I'm here multitasking, so I'm really
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grateful that our viewers and listeners can hear in the background where I'm actually here
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at six y nine restaurant here in Frederickstadt, Freedom City, Saint Croix,
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and they've been very kind to give me my own little studio space in the
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middle of the restaurant so that I can actually continue to share during this particular
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broadcast, I think it's important to highlight a couple of things that are also
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taking place alongside these programs. It was a wonderful regional youth conference on reparations
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that was hosted by the government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, their
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Ministry of Foreign and Cara con Affairs. And this was put together through the
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Trinidad and Tobago reconstituted National Committee on Reparations, and so this Regional Youth Conference
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on Reparations was a theme of reparations for transformation. Featured speaker included Senator Genevieve
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Whittaker, President and co founder of the Virgin Islands Youth Advocacy Coalition. I
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get the honored privilege of serving on their advisory Council as well. It was
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also presented presentations and powerful dialogue and very very powerful programs recommended by Amandla Thomas
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Johnson, a journalist, activist and author and he was doings even on the
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peals of providing disaster recovery efforts for his family in Union Island ninetystruction from Hurricane
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girrel And and Grenadies were also joined by Kibwei Copeland, president of Akimba Youth
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for Reparations, again giving some wonderful context to what the younger generations are spearheading
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and putting forward around reparatory justice, repatriation, restitution and reparations in general,
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and not only in the Caribbean, but showing it from a global space and
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again going beyond just the check going into the resource development, the fund organization,
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strategic planning and management, edification of our systems of learning and cognition,
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engagement in agriculture, agriatorism, agribusiness, looking at economic development from a space
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of not begging and asking for support, but those exchanges that allow for us
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to really have posterity and peace and much more. We were also joined by
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Idola Young as sociologists of the CFRATT I think it's really important. There were
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some several different organizations represented and also doctor Tayamba Solandi who is the director of
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the iker ik Er Institute in Trinidad and Tobago. But I want to highlight
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that while this took place on July eleventh in a virtual space, there were
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so many opportunities that were shared in regard to what is taking place with young
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people being at the forefront and authentically resuming or maintaining their role as the sparks
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of revolution, the sparks of transformation, the sparks of change, the sparks
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growth, the sparks of civilization building. And I was so honored to hear
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the expertise, the attention to standards of excellence that were exceptional, the programmatic
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elements of what is to be done and how it is to be done,
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and most importantly that security and safety. Let me be more specific, executive
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security and safety for any of us that are stepping up, stepping forward and
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bringing these truths into the light. That that was also highlighted because many of
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us have done this work, and I can speak for myself. I have
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done this work for decades, and it's not always easy when we speak out
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against false incarceration. Many of our brothers and systems that are incarcerated, placed
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in prison charged with crime they never committed, and if they did commit a
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crime, it was all in self defense, to protect life, self,
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family, community, and they're still incarcerated. These are things when you speak
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out, you become a target. When we speak of protecting our women and
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girls that are being kidnapped, tortured, raped, murdered throughout the world,
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we can speak for what's happening in the forty eight contiguous to us, and
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it's equally happening in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, maybe not as
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often, maybe not reported as often, South America, Central America, Europe,
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Africa, Indonesia, the Pacific Isles, the world. When we speak
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out about these injustices against our women and girls, the fourth Americans, the
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abuse, sometimes we become the target. So I thought it was powerful to
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see certain convenience that highlighted the importance of executive security and the safety of we
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who speak truth for power. We speak out and go beyond even saying me
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too, but actually engage an actionable, deliverable that allowed us to restore our
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share of humanity and our safety, and our security and our power and much
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much more so. If you notice that people start coming in and I changed
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the background, it's because we're I'm actually at a gathering for scholars that are
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here, and I need to be very clear returning to our island community of
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II sink for here in the Virgin Islands of the United States, hear me
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says or vii US Virgin Islands US, and I highlight that all the time
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because there's a number of resis and sisters, scholars from University California, Stanford
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University, and other institutions that are here working with our intergenerational community to begin
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to give oral histories and gather oral histories and to document them from some of
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our cultural tradition bearers, our historic preservationists, our naturalists, our scientists,
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our marine biologists, our scuba divers, our use our educators, our artisans,
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our artists, our metallurgists, and all in between that are being able
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to give some contexts, some true contexts to what is involved in culture,
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healing, art, technolo, the spirituality that support life here Ini Saint Cory
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Virgin and how do we expend that throughout our Caribbean region, throughout the Americas,
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throughout this hemisphere, and of course globally. And I know I've covered
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a lot of different things, but I really desire to just let persons know
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we have had so many pieces going on recently. For those persons that are
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not familiar with me, I took care international development organization. I want to
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take a moment so that persons know that when we speak of the Idle Network,
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and it's a pretty interesting gathering of brothers and sisters from around the globe,
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grounded in more than seven hundred make sure you hear me. More than
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seven hundred African royal kingdoms and realms with the membership of over a million persons.
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And I know that sounds like a lot and it probably will throw off
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a lot of people, but I want to make sure that persons can take
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their time. I've added that into the chat as well, so you can
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go to the Idle Network dot org and learn a little bit more about the
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idle community to just get an idea of exactly, you know, what is
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idole? How do we engage in an international space? And I want to
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just share this for the purposes a person that may not have gone to site.
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But the Idle Network International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in London with chapters
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in affiliated traditional leaders and kingdoms in several countries in Africa that promotes peace and
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respect their culture as a means of for unity and sustainable development. The objective
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of IDO, among others, because there's quite an extensive list of the decades,
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is to uphold the spirit of umbuntu, humanity, human rights, we
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are because you are, and promote social inclusion across all communities everywhere. I
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think it's really important to know that there are connections chapters of the IDOL Network
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Internationals that are in Europe as well as in Africa as well as in the
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Caribbean. Yes, and that there's also the Global African Diespor, a kingdom
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that brings together a council, a supreme Council of brothers and sisters royals that
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are reinstituting our reality and our regality in the African diaspora. So there's a
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lot that I can speak to in that regard, and I think it's important
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to know that this gives us an opportunity to bring a voice to the voiceless.
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It allows us to engage cultural role models that promote unity and social change.
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This is an organization that encourages stakeholders to embrace the vision of corporate social
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responsibility I can refer to as CSR corporate social responsibility in culture surrounding these things
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in culture so that we can strengthen and foster networks and share good practices,
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not just best practices, but holistic good practices international. And again I encourage
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you to go to IDO Network a IDO network dot org and that way you
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can learn a little bit more about some of the efforts, some of the
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global projects, some of the ways in which cultural heritage is promoted, the
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way the capacity building activities that empower communities are engaged. How there are a
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number of global campaigns that advocate for human rights on all levels. That there
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are networks that provide lobbying, support and developments of various partnerships and collaborations,
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as well as the advancement of informal as well as formal education in our respective
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communities, as well as the connection to sustainable development programs. So in addition
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to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, there are hosts of other extensions of
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those SDGs that are highlighted through the work of idem. I think it's important
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to also look at some of the strategic goals of IDOLE in regard to the
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promotion of cultural heritage, preservation and the documentation and intracultural exchange also of the
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delivery the very impactful social and economic programs and collaboration with education, health,
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inequality, piece death and of course strong institution building and development. And then
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of course we do our best to increase our partnerships, our collaborations, our
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cooperative arrangements and engagements, so we are always strengthening our IDOLE membership internationally.
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So if you're interested in being part of a network where we actually do when
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we speak of I doers and contribute in always large, always small, please
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feel free to go to the IDOLE network and you can easily go to id
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network dot org. For the next part of tonight's broadcast, I'd like to
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make sure that I highlight a number of things that have been very supporting here
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within the Aspiring Authors magazine initiatives brought forth by Sister Queen Angela and supported by
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more than two dozen authors with the publication that's forthcoming, and I know that
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there are opportunities for us to learn a little bit more. I'm so excited
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to see this anthology of poetic verse that is brought together oh approximately therapy authors
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in this publication that's forthcoming. We're excited because persons are talking about love people
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are speaking about change, people are speaking about spirituality, people are speaking about
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so many different themes that allow for each and every one of us to highlight
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a number of things in our context and how we bring these things into power.
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I would be remiss if I didn't encourage people to also learn a little
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bit more about the Omai Kingdom. As I mentioned earlier, I will put
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that into the chat as well, because that way you can have your own
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opportunity, as your leisure to learn more about the Omayne Royal Kingdom with Her
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Royal Majesty Queen Vicky Lexar, and you'll get to see some of the global
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engagements that they're involved in. And that's the legacy, because I think it's
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important to recognize that this unity and reconciliation, the Omanna legacy, was really
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highlighted in their inaugural magazine. I think that was the Omaya Royal Kingdom Magazine
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that came out with their first issue in the spring of twenty to twenty four.
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That it's really powerful. You can go to the site and get a
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digital copy for you to peruse and see freely. I think it's really important
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and I'll put that link in the chat as well, so that persons would
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be able to just learn a little bit more about the esteemed Omanya Royal Kingdom
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and under the very quote capable leadership of her Royal Magaize thee Queen, the
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Gleekstar, and just knowing for those persons that aren't familiar, like what does
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that mean we have an actual royal majesty in our fits her world lineage stems
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from the Wuna Royal family of Osu and the okam Mashi Royal family of that
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I said lah in Ghana, West Afracan. And so that way you can
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go to the website and learn a little bit more to just keep yourself in
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formed, keep yourself engaged, and let's understand that the connections that they have
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to what is rooted in our people and our ethnicity and our gender and our
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diversity and our socioeconomic backgrounds and our socio cultural spaces and just that whole idea
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of initiating change, challenging bier and our quote fostering shared values. So there's
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a lot more when you get the chance to meet the Okang Royal family and
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you'll just get an idea of how diversity, equity, inclusion, spiritual harmony
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and collaboration actually are exemplified within the Onlinu Gral Kingdom. I think it's really
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important for persons to just take a moment and learn as much as you can
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to be comfortable because their focus is on help, education, leadership, and
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community development. Sounds familiar health, education, leadership and community development, and
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that gives us an opportunity to really speak violence in regard to some of the
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things that we'd like to highlight in our broadcast tonight. And the idea is
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for us to be able to share, you know, how do we help
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our brothers and sisters around the globe. How do we start and strengthen our
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unity, our harmony, our principal unity, our principal liberating harmony. Today
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is also a significant day for many you know, people refer to this day
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as a day honoring many great ones. We've had a number of observances in
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the month of July, and sometimes we overlooked very significant ones. Right,
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there were a number of activities happening at the United Nations today. I wish
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to extend a couple of notes to thanks for July eighteenth being recognized as International
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Mandela Day in honor of Madiva Nelson Mandela of Asannian, South Africa. I'll
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share the quote that would share a fundamental concern for others in our individual and
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community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we
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so passionately dream of unquote. And those are the words of the Honorable Medieva
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Nelson Mandela on this day that we celebrate his anniversary of this verb. I
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think it's also important to know that there were a number of pieces. You
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know, I would be remiss in speaking of IDOL, the ata CARE International
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Development Organization Network and without speaking of the founders and the current president and chair
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respecting me, and that's none other than His Royal Highness Papa Iganda Jones and
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his beloved Queen, Her Royal Highness Queen Grace Becoming Jones, and they've been
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really instrumental to the conversations around what IDOL presents and produces. I really want
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you to meet this early pretty princess come because I think it's important that persons
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know, like, yes, I do a lot of work, and yes
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I have a lot of activities that are presenting themselves. But you're gonna notice
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that I'm going to bring in this really cute reason why I can do what
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I'm doing. Might you come with me? Come, let's see. Might
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you pray? What do you say? Say? Good evening, Say hi
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everybody. She's looking at her mother, but she's allowing me to hold her.
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We believe in bringing our children into all elements of our work. So
37:30
when we're doing these types of podcasts, yes, you gotta smile, you're
37:34
fortunate. Yes, yes, yes, yes, And her mom might.
37:40
I'm telling you her mom might join us for a second. Her mom is
37:44
a phenomenal artist. I just want to highlight, Yes, please tell us
37:47
your name, Julian. I just want to highlight jeweler out of this world.
37:53
If you want designs one of the kind, you have to come to
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Prussian heritage and nature tourism in Saint Croix, Virgin Islands and get the Guion
38:04
experience. Right. I just wanted to at least share that. Thank here,
38:07
chempon one right, because we get an opportunity to bring some of our
38:10
entrepreneurs, our artists, some of our educators as well as our scholars into
38:16
this space, into this room. That way, we are actually living what
38:22
we speak of when we talk about building a new legacy and when we speak
38:28
of ancestral, ancient sacred traditions. When we say ast speaks, we're speaking
38:37
from a space of those ancestral ancient sacred traditions and contemporary times. You know,
38:44
what are the things of the past that are very applicable, useful,
38:50
and facilitate our growth in contemporary times. So, as I was saying,
38:55
in the midst of all these other opportunities were also have you know the organizations
39:02
that we're hosting the NANDELA event today? Oh you like being on? I
39:07
know you'd like my podcast. I know you would. So now I'm telling
39:09
you this means that I may have a new co host, and she's not
39:14
quite too yet. But what I love with her energy is that she's really
39:19
giving us an opportunity to talk about the role of our children, the role
39:22
of our youth, keeping them engaged, letting them listen to all of this
39:25
information that we're sharing. So, whether it's poetic first, whether we're speaking
39:30
about the injustices that need to be repaired so we can restore our shared humanity
39:35
in our communities, whether it is to support the efforts to cut back and
39:40
to eradicate violence against women, girl, men, boys. Did you see
39:51
how that went. How do we begin to bring this type of conversation in
39:54
the forefront of some of our discourse, and how do we begin to highlight
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weight that we can bring our educators, our parents, our wider community,
40:07
whether they're corporate or not. How do we bring entrepreneurs, how do we
40:12
bring technical scientists, how do we bring artisans metallurgists into the circle? And
40:21
I'm really excited so that that way we can spend some quality time bringing all
40:27
of this together, you know, and how do we bring this together so
40:30
that we actually show respect and honor to one another. So it's like I
40:36
try really hard to bring certain things into fruition, and I'm very excited when
40:45
I have an opportunity to talk about some of the things that I'm doing work
40:51
on and being able to highlight some of those things. So even the Mandela
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Day events that were hosted by the African Views organization, and I'll make sure
41:00
to put their website into the hopper as well, because I think sometimes people
41:05
forget that when we talk about African Views and when we talk about Africanviews dot
41:12
org, that we're speaking about an organization that has a history of being able
41:19
to provide some very powerful information around small vision, large vision, expression thought
41:34
what they refer to as global African intelligence, and we really bring that into
41:38
a focus that allows for us to speak about the different projects that again these
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are going to sound familiar, heritage, economic, health, education. Do
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you see the synergy and they have a hosted media publications, but I'm also
41:57
adding that site into our links. The persons can also see that there are
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there's a synergy that's happening between different organizations. There are a number of articles
42:07
that have been shared, the number of articles that have been shared regarding some
42:13
of the recent celebrations the Golden jew Believe for her Royal Majesty, Queen Vicky
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Lextar. It makes me almost speechless because it was a showering of an abundance
42:29
of love and respect, loyalty and royality. And I want to make sure
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I highlight that the royalty and maybe you'll hear me say royality because it's almost
42:39
like that needs an extra syllable because it was exceptional and the standards of excellence
42:46
that were exhibited, the hospitality shared and extended to every single guest, every
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single member of the family, every single member of the ommaya or kingdom,
43:00
it was exceptional, and there are very few opportunities that many of us experience
43:07
to see that type of love, respect, energy, and exceptional artistic talent.
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I would like to highlight that exceptional artistic professional talent that was shared through
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that. Theatrical preputation, poetic delivery, music, the choir, everything exceptional,
43:38
and I just needed to make sure that there's more for me to share
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that. That'd be another broadcast because prayerfully we will be able to have our
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attention is to use our platform here On July thirty first, which is Pan
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African Women's Today around the globe since nineteen fifty seven, before the organization of
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African Community, before the African Union, there was an African women organization that
44:08
spearheaded a number of efforts, and that day is highlighted on July thirty first,
44:15
which is powerful because it's right on the eve of many Emancipation Day observices
44:22
here throughout the cribbe right, August first being Emancipation Day from British colonization in
44:30
the Virgin Islands. July third is Virgin Islands Emancipation from eighteen forty eight.
44:38
I think it's just important that people just get that in their minds in Saint
44:42
Martin, it's July one, same year, eighteen forty eighth one side,
44:47
eighteen sixty three another side. So I'm just saying this is the time of
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emancipation and liberation and freedom and decolonization and self determination from June the end of
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the June coming all the way into August, with August first being emancipation as
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I've mentioned from the British colonizers, and throughout there's observances for Marcus Garvey's solar
45:12
return for the anniversary on August seventeenth. Flag days August thirteenth, there'll be
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conventions and convenience of the Universal Nigro Improvement Association African Communities lead throughout the globe.
45:28
I think it's important for persons to be aware that the work of the
45:30
Honorable Marcus Messiah Garby, alongside his wife Amy Jacks Garvey and his first wife
45:37
Amy Astragarvy, all founders of the U and i AACL, you know,
45:44
alongside many others. I think it's important to highlight that in nineteen twenty at
45:51
the convention for the un I AACL, there was a declaration for Nigro people
45:57
of the world and that generation in August of nineteen twenty at Madison Square Garden.
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On August thirty first, there was this powerful declaration which is available online.
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I will put that link in our network as well. But what August
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thirty first represents is African independence to day. I think it's important for persons
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to know this, so that while we're looking at, you know, Labor
46:23
Day in the forty eight contiguous, the first Monday of September every year,
46:29
that we have all of these other pieces of what led up to that.
46:31
You know, here in the Caribbean, we also have West India's West Indian
46:37
Solidarity Day, which is the same day as the US Labor Day, the
46:42
first Monday of September. So I'm just putting out there for the person to
46:45
have that in their reservoir of things to know, things to do, and
46:51
there's a number of other observances. August third is also the anniversary of the
46:55
birth of the honorable grandfather of Pan Africanism, the Honorable Reverend Doctor Edward Woman
47:05
Blyden, born in very humble beginnings as a free African on the Isle of
47:10
Saint Thomas in what was then the Danish West Indies, which is now the
47:15
Virgin Knowledge of the United States, of parents that were pre not enslaved,
47:22
they were pre equal persons coming out of West Africa. I just think it's
47:28
important that we highlight these things as we celebrate and iviegrate all these other pieces.
47:32
Since I know I cover quite a bit in a short amount of time,
47:37
I'm glad that some of our listeners are also tuning into some of the
47:42
conversation, some of the commings that had been shared. Because while there's certain
47:47
distractions, certain areas that are being prioritized and affording contiguous to us, what
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we need to navigate and do our best to come together for. Let us
48:00
build principal unity, decolonizations, self determination, liberation, and a form of
48:13
principal munity that helps us strengthen our shared humanity. If we can do that,
48:21
If we can do that, get many of these illegally incarcerated prisoners of
48:29
war out of prison, get the incarceration rates dropped, move people into a
48:37
space that they can be positive contributors to our communities wherever they are. And
48:44
for those that choose to repatriate to the motherland or to repatriate out of the
48:50
forty eight continues to us, so be it everyone deserves peace, every single
48:59
one of us to serve speed and we will not have it if we're continuously
49:05
at war. So if we can do something to undo the layers of warfare
49:10
that are really commanding most of our time, that would be ideal as well.
49:15
So if we get ready to close out for tonight's broadcast, because we
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are again the hour went by really quickly, I want to share some updates
49:27
on some of the activities and efforts that some of our brothers and sisters,
49:31
because you've heard me mentioned. July thirty first is the anniversary for the Pan
49:37
African women's organizations, and it's known as Pan African Women's Day annually from nineteen
49:43
fifty seven. This preceded the development of the Organization of African Unity, which
49:50
in the early part of the twenty first century became the organ perusal of the
49:55
African Union. I encourage persons that are not familiar with the African Union to
50:01
take a moment and please make sure it's in English as well as French,
50:08
Piecewai Huli, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic, so that way you can practice
50:16
your multilingualism and your language skills, of course, but more importantly you will
50:22
also be able to learn a little bit more about the African Union. And
50:27
the reason I mentioned that is because as we're speaking in Ghana, there are
50:34
a host of anniversary activities and a convening of the African Union ECOSOC, which
50:39
focuses on economic, social, cultural, organizational development and unity. And this
50:46
is happening in a Paraganum as we speak. And there's also going to be
50:52
side events that are hosted by the African Union African Diaspora Fixed Region High Council.
50:59
I think it's really important that they're doing this in the context as the
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program shared of the twentieth anniversary just twenty twenty four March, the twentieth anniversary
51:08
of the African Union ECASAD, and these side events are grounded on pun African
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roots, energy, dies for affairs, and this is happening as I said
51:19
in Akaragana, that activity would be happening later in the week, but there
51:23
are a host of activities that are convening starting starting the sixteenth through this weekend
51:31
in Aarghana. I think it's really important for persons to just get an idea
51:37
of some of the things that are happening with this particular theme for this side
51:39
event. The theme is advancing the au ADS African Union, African Dies for
51:45
a High Council, the instruments partnerships and leave no community Behind model and the
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importance of focusing on dies for a citizenship success and the right to return to
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Umbuntu pathways. So that's a side event that will be happening on Saturday,
52:06
July twentieth. As soon as the repertoire reports are provided for us, we
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will make sure to share that in our broadcast in our network. I just
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think it's important to know that there's going to be a various series of address
52:19
addresses provided you know. The moderator is identified as missus Angela Sales, who
52:25
is this au ADS sixth Region High Council Board member. There will also be
52:31
King Taki Taikol to SHOOTI the second guy, Monk sing who will be doing
52:38
an opening prayer and we'll welcome he's a king of a in Akra. There
52:44
will also be the Honorable Aquasi a Wu who is serving within the Republic of
52:52
Ghana's he's the director of Daspora Affairs. Wonderful brethren. He's also joined us
52:58
in the Caribbean on number of occasions and offered support part excellence and I want
53:01
to encourage persons to tune in just to learn more about the right to return
53:06
Welcome statement. The co founder of the AUABS sixth Region High Council and global
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Leading Facilitator, doctor Beryl Bickman, She's going to be setting the tone of
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empowerment and a statement the au Ecosox Secretariat Representative right Sikka and talking about the
53:25
Abu Ecosoks twenty twenty years working with the diaspora. And then it's going to
53:30
be a host of different initiatives and I want to just take a moment and
53:35
highlight that the AU sixth Region High Council Leading Facilitator Region North America, Reverend
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Kobe Little will be speaking on friding to note on the practical implication of the
53:49
UBUNTU Connector philosophy and perspective of the lead No Community Behind vision. Of course,
53:54
the co founder, doctor Beryl Bickman will be speaking on the African Union's
53:59
High Cow's governance structure the idea in perspective of the two thousand and three adopted
54:06
Article three Q of the African Union Constitutive Act. Of course, there will
54:10
be a umbutuonomics actualizing the Office of finance and dies for a partnership by missus
54:17
angel Stakes again from the au ADS sixth Region High Council Board Member and Management
54:24
Committee. Also from the a U d S's High Council, their leading facilitator
54:31
in Africa the region ECOWAP, doctor Michael and Puma. He will be speaking
54:37
on empowering dis foreign youth for economic transformation. And then the afternoon shifts into
54:45
the reparatory justice and perspective of the right to return and that will be opened
54:50
by High Council Board Member missus Awa and Dia and Da and she will be
54:58
sharing a vision statement, statement and a pultocal perspective. We will have the
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Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the Ghana Global Diaspora Council, Doctor ni O
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Kuaie Hammond, African, will be speaking on African identity, the African Kingdoms
55:15
and the right to return. We will have another a U a d S
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sixth Region Leading facilitator for the Region of East Africans Committee pailing out of Tanzania
55:30
as well as Kenya and other as well as Ethiopia. And you know,
55:35
with very humble beginnings out of Comego Jamaica, none other than her Excellency Missus
55:43
Nana Abina James, and she'll be speaking on the right to return halfways for
55:46
success based on her experience in reparatory justice. And then of course there will
55:52
be a profession on the right to return champions and best practices and recommendations for
55:58
success, closed out by the Republic of Ghana's Director of Guy's who aren't Affairs,
56:04
the Honorable Acquassi Ababio as mentioned earlier. And then we will have African
56:08
views Ghana Queen Mother Alwandor sharing closing remarks and of course Reverend Kobe Little offering
56:15
closing prayers as they speak of the report on the way forward, conclusions and
56:21
recommendations. It's going to be a very full activity that's part of that program.
56:25
I encourage persons to go to the African Union ECO SOX site to get
56:31
some other information. I think it's really important to know some of the areas,
56:40
the intentions, the growth of what is transpiring. I think that some
56:45
people forget sometimes that we are really moving in a direction to shift, really
56:55
shift our relationships with our brothers and sisters in the African country and beyond.
57:02
I think it's also important for our community to be very comfortable in knowing that
57:09
this whole conversation around the OAU, the organization of Rappi community existing from nineteen
57:17
sixty three, coming into the AU and moving into twenty twenty three and beyond.
57:24
I think it's important to use this as an opportunity to speak on the
57:31
activities that are happening in Africa and in the world that impact the African diaspur.
57:39
I think also that this is a wonderful opportunity for persons to know that
57:45
there are activities happening all through Caracom, the Caribbean community. I put that
57:50
website in as well because there's so much happening, whether it's through the CARA
57:53
com Reparations Commission, whether it is Yeah, whether it's through the Emancipation Support
58:06
Committee of Trinidad and Tobago and I had the cause because they're doing so much
58:10
work that I'm just going to put the sites in so persons can at their
58:15
leisure because we've come to the close of our broadcast for tonight. But I
58:19
think it's I think it's really important for our sisters and brothers to know that
58:24
there's a lot going on in the world. For us to be able to
58:28
talk about that is happening. That's good. There's some wonderful activities that are
58:32
bringing truth to power, highlighting creatives, culture, heritage, arts, technology,
58:40
spirituality, wellness, prosperity, peace, and I would like for us
58:45
to highlight those things instead of just focusing on the war mongering or focusing on
58:52
the other than honorable negativities that are causing imbalance in our community. We want
58:57
to send a special shout out to our sisters and brothers again that are getting
59:01
through disaster recovery efforts in the Caribbean. I placed some of those sites on
59:09
our on our web page as well, because I think it's really important for
59:15
our brothers and sisters to know that we are doing our best to offer,
59:20
you know, support, whether it's in Jamaica, whether it's in in Grenada,
59:25
whether it's in Saint Vincent Grenadine's. We would like brothers and sisters to
59:30
really hear us when we're saying, each one teach one, while each one
59:36
heres. So whatever you can do, whatever you're able to provide support for,
59:42
even if it's just to go to the Caribbean disaster agencies and learn a
59:49
little bit more about how you can send donations to different agencies and to different
59:54
countries, and you know, if you want something more formal, we'll do
59:58
our best to keep sending this information because what's happening is that we're doing our
1:00:02
best to offer opportunities for persons to share with us ways that they can share
1:00:09
their support to help our sisters and brothers in need in respective countries. With
1:00:15
that being said, I think I've reached a time limit for tonight. I
1:00:20
really encourage persons to tune in to as Speaks and building a new legacy on
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the first and third Thursday at eight pm here with the Crew podcast. I
1:00:31
really encourage our sisters and brothers to tune in for special bonus broadcasts on Pan
1:00:37
African Women's Day on July third to first. I have a special guest.
1:00:43
I think you heard their name, their royal name, and prayerfully you'll be
1:00:46
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