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tv   Witness Growing Together  Al Jazeera  May 9, 2024 8:30am-9:01am AST

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a fight is from the people's defense pulse speed along the roads of canyon state. aside from the threats and the yeah, they have the countryside locked down. a well organized discipline militia, bone of a peaceful disobedience movement. and the often most of the military coup, peaceful protest is took to the streets of old man. mazda may just sit his thea, but use jen z. i'm willing to give up the freedoms of democracy. the military crack down that followed was hundreds. come down in the streets, 1000 small, hold a way to detention to the protest is we're left with a stop choice. submit. move to the boat is and find a mile from that. i a ross in this area around august 2021. i was in the k and l a . forth in the lake, a cow area, my l y d. i decide to take up arms and flights back and usually off of the training
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i decide to work as medic trained by as nectar in rebels who's been fighting for a ton of me for decades. they lent you skills, but a shortage of weapons and ammunition. that's the only one grateful for every 2 fighters. now, all of that has changed. one of the things has made a huge difference in the last 6 months. is weapons, the pro democracy forces has seized from military bases. they've over run these to just some of the rifles they've taken from faces. and the last couple of weeks set the many of them are not good enough just don't. but the young up in point is a, using the social media skills to for the to g was a theme is hip hop on just now he tools rebel bases raising neuro nearby and funds . say about trying to, you know, we would have done this kind of fundraising many times before. the enemy uses all the power and resources to attack. cuz so we have to raise funds by any means such as collecting donations from people online. they worked with the song,
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he's singing originally performed by zeta tall politician and wrapper executed by the electric generator in 2022. as the sunsets fight to slip out of cover to wash in the river, educated and professionals turned into jungle guerrillas. despite all the obstacles to find they could well when tony chang out to 0 k in states, eastern me and all that. so if somebody told me that probably for the moment i'll be back in half an hour with much more news. in the meantime, you can go to our website that's owned, is there a don't, and then use continue sale. and i'll just sarah of to witness, which is coming up next to stay with us. the the canyon government has forwarded thousands of people across the country to move
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away from wetlands that have flooded many areas. torrential rains in the region have been made was by the el nino where the phenomenon. this is how close the houses are from the narrow that down. it doesn't look like margins covered by what the highest says, but when it overflows the, what comes to that, how is this? the problem in that ruby has been watson by pull drainage and he's taken the bill settlement people's beeping in near the know ruby don't say they know they're not supposed to be that, but it's the only case they can't afford me last night because we have a lot of the
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there's what to do everything. so as i say, live your best life. you know that family time is so important to her. and it's been very beneficial. an eye opening had these parents for the 1st time in 40 years old. is kind of uh, it feels a little backwards, but it's like, it's a new experience that very interesting, very unique feels really good for in the past. and the success well actually with everybody who
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they are getting there they've been together for a long time. 46 years and 40 of those years has been a separation. the mean just the fact that their home, that prison thing is over, you know, it's really, really, really the was in the board. everyone.
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my name is my top of the junior. i am a member of the move organization. we're going to talk about the injustices in the city. and we're going to talk about the resistance to that in just the the, the
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. ready the . ready ready the police arrested not of their family members. and of those
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92 are my mother, my father. and i was born in prison. so we're about to go down the street here. um i don't come down here much. so this is oh, sage avenue. this is a site where people that lived in this house, which was other move people. they were campaigning to get the other move people out of prison. on may, 13th, 1985. the city of philadelphia came to our house. yet again, they flew a helicopter over our house and dropped the bomb on our house. the bomb ignited a fire. the fire burned down. this house inside of the house was 13 people. on the 13 people,
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11 of them died. 5 of the 11 were children, they were too young to know what happened to understand it. it took me 20 years to really get a grasp on understanding what happened and then another 10 to accept it. my name is mike african junior. hey. i do. yeah. i remember i remember yeah, more valuable on the bill here. so what is that what all it is they. 2 they sold the city sold to the developers. this is old. the old lot in spanish,
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empire street. yep. for dow property. i went down to check and they gave me each one. he's osborne, down an american tragedy. just based on rough. we're, i man. all right. the that's a perfect america q on see, you know, what i'm gonna see. i'll see you today is what i'm to and that is the fence of perfection and that, that will burn your taste. but you're not careful. yes. because you know these, the last well be on october the
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i was raised by my grandmother. i was raised by the community to of the organization. is everything that i needed i did had but those questions began to develop child separation from their parents. she's very deep, but it's been really good. i mean if there's no real like that adjustment is just you know, figuring out this thing and we're just moving with it with each other, growing into it with each other. my senior and i moved out of mike and robins place
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about what's been about maybe a maybe about a month, a little short shy of a month. you ready? it hasn't really been an adjustment. you know what i wasn't used to was prison. i know what freedom felt like i was born for the adjustment. was somebody trying to see you slot or talking to you like you were a stop human or having you work for pennies a day. those were the adjustments when i was arrested and was sent to prison. we had rotary phones. we had a lot of phone hanging on the wall. but when i came out, they were a cell phone, smartphones mobile phones. i did have to make a big adjustment there and still, you know, i've got the basics down of what i need it for. but that was, that was a big challenge because was just so unfamiliar or even
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now while i get on the phone, i'm calling somebody i'm expecting to talk to a person not here recording the coming home to of there's something less and something i'll return to. so that was, seems the many, donny hathaway, the right, right. why right?
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you see this one. this is in prison. we've had demonstrations and hunger strikes in the subject ourselves and people we know as proven to be on trustworthy and particularly vicious choices. there is no getting around the toxic environment that they put you in the stressful environment. they put you in. so it's always been some kind of warfare. and don't think that just because we went to prison that it ended or you know, the salts contain very nice. yeah. we stayed in touch by writing letters and we
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communicated through our children. i never did that me and i have been knowing each other since 14 and you know, together committed the sense $167.00 and for me you know, she's always been longer. you know, it's always been for several reasons. you know, we want to know something official. we started talking about dates, when would be the best time? you know for me, the best time was the day before was it yesterday? we won't take care of this today. you know, so this
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is my see state prison. this is one of the 1st visits to see my to myself. i here it's my sister as my cousin, david, that's my lorraine, this is a picture of the my mom at cambridge springs. this picture was taken in november 19 9440 years of your life, a miscarriage children growing up. they missed all of the things that i'm doing with my kids. they missed so much, you know, this is amazing journey to, to go from that. and knowing that they've been in prison all those years unjustly and then get involved in working on helping to get them out. the
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organization. i want to point out the what now the we got the what to do the right i you
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i brought these signatures. i got someone's email that i need to print out what? okay, can you can remember me, you think we have? i think it's over 300 and over 25 different countries. this is great. i thought that you did see this envelope but didn't hold up and these are some of the hand written ones. so these are great. see what it is. you know, this specialized right from around the state of pennsylvania. and then looking at this countries around the world states all around the country, new york, florida. seattle, california. yeah. burnam of the philippines. that is the. yeah. yeah. so that's great. this is great. you know, i mean,
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i think this is important to be able to show that as wide support for the move 9. so these are some of the packets that we did. a copy of each one sent to each and every board member. these with the new original ones we did, we submit a new aid for the 2018 and then they went in for the for a may g. it's, we have the stick for your mom. and your dad was even figured because he had so many letters. he had all of his certificates. i mean, these are just a ton of stuff. is all the letters we had submitted for. figured out to get those letters for him. st went by. yeah, this has been true collaboration. oh for sure. oh, that's the man. that's the best part of it as i and that's why it's so important to work together. mm hm. but i don't see you might see you guys versa yet and just
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help each other. just send me what you're able to do. things i'm not able to do, you know, things i don't know. i mean, really things you're not able to do it back together to teamwork, teamwork. basically. wordpress. yeah. they, we got, you know, i, when i was a mosque was when i was really starting to correspond with some of the move 9 rate and developing personal relationships, pin power relationships. and then so i'm sitting in the back of class writing letters half paid attention. have taken notes and you know, but i would start, you know, start, i'm just trying to do a little bit of legal research would be like, what exactly is it some reading the opinions or a reading court cases describing what happened with the case in 1978 and realizing how i'm blowing it was in the court opinion. it says there's no evidence that any of the women even held a gun. let alone fired a gun at anybody. there is no evidence that any of the 9 people actually
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shot this person. it really solidifying what it already knew, which was that so much of this legal systems, a farce. you know, it's just this, this house of cards that set up to prop up white supremacy the writing. do they need to do it again? the
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state so what you can do is what you can do in your life, tom, feeling that you feel for working for or working to either a guessing injustice or working to right or wrong is a good feeling. you know, it's a very satisfying feeling. we have had this expansive definition of revolution and most of us accept that as a process. what does that work in actual process? look from y'all's perspective. the 1st person you're going to ask you to always is the person you're looking mirror. you've got to make sure that you're as respectful of that information and feeling as you expect others to be. and if you're not this work you have to do, you know, there's work that you have to challenge others. just because the person seems to be in opposition to that information. and the example you see it does not mean that
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you're not affect, you know, if you want to see sondra blan tamira rice and yana jones, you know, just on and on and on. you know, you have to fight and you have to fight with those who are already fighting, who's been fine. you know, and if you don't care, then we come for you to the headed to the church, low tables, your money for the wedding tomorrow. my parents big day, 45 years in the making. they finally get a chance to to get the celebratory unit. they worked so hard to maintain over the last 45 years. 4646 years,
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my apologies. i hope the church is standing room only. i want as many people as that building can to show my parents to love it. they deserve to feel after working so hard and it is like a wedding freestyle here. now, the style is kind of different. for me, i think probably from most people is a little weird to like charlie, cuz it's like i'm the son. you know me, i'm the son. so it is kind of things are kind of in reverse. just spinning the time in the work, putting in the work to make this happen and all of that is very joyce's, very healing is very up to thing and encouraging firing the, you know, it's
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a good example to navigate all those things. i work into how i feel in my motion. i feel i woke up this morning the take about to take the box on the way
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i am filled to overflowing because i am a child of philadelphia. and for many of us who left the friends, family members, supporters, we've been waiting to stay in solid day already and to let them know that we love them to small in size. these rays are very large and significant. they're made of precious metal. and they remind us that loss is not and it's not common. i want you just to turn around and look outside of it. all these people had been apart from each other for 40 years,
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which is low. say, saw the who is this woman to be married to this me for a real mouth is i i therefore, by the power that has been vested in me by the state of pennsylvania and most of all by god. i pronounce that they are husbands and why the anything is worth doing is worth doing right. if anything is worth fighting for you
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by for an attorney, which means. ready it doesn't matter how long it takes and it's worth it. never the in the next generation in the united states, they're not happy with what is happening in gaza. they're not happy with the u. s. foreign policy and that's why they're trying to make their voices heard. the administrators of each university really have a choice to either escalate and calling police be confrontational, or to actually listen to what their concerns are. city stream of people being
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arrested, placed in the zip tie and cups and taken away many of the purchases we talked to have said they will continue protesting until their demands are met. is in the brazilian amazon, a star trail of the ongoing tragedy faced by the enemy, people for years they have borne the brunt of the legal mining activities in rivers points and with mercury, rendering water, drinkable and fish inedible. in 2023, pressed. and we've seen this one of us, 2 of us sent a national task force to expel the invaders from the reserve. more than the year has gone by and nothing has changed or illegal minors return every day. we see there pines coming and going present lula has promised to help deforestation to increase the number of indigenous reserves for self indigenous people here say they've come to realize that having government support is not enough. they're still
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facing strong resistance from the powerful lobby in congress. to the state vill expand the fight from their villages to the countries court rooms and electing their own politicians to save their lives. the red line of france from the us president type of wisdom supplies to israel as an operation into profit is launched. i've made it clear to be, be in the work. i'm not going to get our support if in fact, to go with this population centers the, until mccrae, this is al, just here in line from doha. also coming out another mass credit uncovered at the el cheapo hospital complex and cancer. a month off is rarely forces withdrew. 49
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bodies found bearings at risk you with its continue in floods, head southern brazil, hundreds dead in tens of thousands of people displaced.

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