September 18, 2025 • 51 mins
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Dona Greetings, good night everyone, hotel, greetings of peace, and
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we are really welcoming you here with the Crew podcast.
Our Thursdays broadcast the first and the third Thursday of
each month at least until the end of twenty twenty
five is US Speaks. We get an opportunity to speak
of building new legacies and in that conversation, that conversation,
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that discourse, that reasoning, we get an opportunity to speak
about things that are related to culture, healing, arts, technology
and spirituality that are grounded in life, inspiration, freedom and education,
chats for life. This is your host, Green Mother, doctor
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Chen Zero and I have an opportunity in this particular
podcast broadcast to really navigate through why counsel, knowledge, power
and prosperity and really bring another set of perspectives to
things that are affecting our women and our men, our children,
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and our elders and everyone above so below inside and
just pushing that energy that allows for us to really
highlight energy that brings body, mind, soul, spirit and consciousness
into a welcoming space, into a balanced space, into a
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space of grace. Usually I would have a guest in
light of a number of things that have happened. We
are very fortunate here in the Virgin Islands to have
some weather past, and while it is hurricane season and
we usually go through a significant amount of trauma psychologically,
physiologically and otherwise, we have been very blessed to be
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inundated with thunderstorms and rain, some flash flooding in certain areas,
but definitely no large damages anything comparative to a Cat
five twice over hurricane. It's interesting that this is a
time where it is the anniversary of the one of
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the more devastating hurricanes that affected the Virgin Islands, specifically
the Isle of Saint Croix in nineteen eighty nine, Hurricane Hugo.
There are actually publications and stories and legends and myths
and some real truths on preparedness when it comes to
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hurricane season, which is every year. You know, hurricane supplication
is in June and then there's prayers at the end
of the sea in November. So think about that almost
a half of the year there's a possibility of the winds,
the world winds, the waters, the seas, the oceans curling
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up and destroying. These are these gatherings of Peruvian aisles
and of course, impacting mainland spaces, because we've seen hurricanes
have become more intensified over the last decade and are
actually going up as far, you know, all the way
to the New England area on the east coast. You know,
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it's just showing the power of nature, the power of
the environment, and why it's important that we respect our
environment to the best of our ability. And I start there,
because what we are also experiencing, you know, give thanks
if there was no loss of life, that we're grateful
that most persons were able to get home or stay
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home safely. You know, we were grateful that they were,
you know, in select infinite engaging wisdom. You know, authorities
were able to give notifications, sometimes a little tardy, but
so their parents, you know, families that had children going
to school were not you know, taking any undue risk,
and especially to go to school to then find out
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they were going to be closed and that in some
even the university had a delayed opening today, and most
of the students because they were experiencing, you know, loss
of power therefore couldn't use internet, the roads were flooded,
or they were certain concerns. You know, many people just
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took it as a day to be in reflection, and
then of course there were those that were sweeping out
water from areas that are low lying. So we just
want to give thanks and praise for that that we
were able to get through that, and that tonight we
can actually have a podcast and broadcasts here because a
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little bit earlier it might not have happened. So I
want to thank the crew Podcasts for their patients. A
special shout out to our visionary sister Queen Angeline for
just being able to make this platform available for those
of us that would like to share, you know, So
if you have questions, anyone that's listening, anyone that tunes
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in that would like to oh for any questions, if
their particular ideas, I'm going to cover a couple of
things that are happening, you know, around this time of
the year. It is a wonderful opportunity to look at
some of the what people refer to as these international days.
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And I speak of these international days, and I'm going
to do it through the lens of the United Nations. First. Second,
because one of the significant days in the month of September,
besides the joy and privilege of being born in this month,
on the ninth month, the ninth day. I don't need
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to tell you the year, but just know that I'm
a senior. It was always a time for me to
just be in a space of reflection and looking at
what was happening in amongst our planetary bodies, what was
happening on the Earth, and not getting caught up in distractions,
and in doing so it also let me highlight some
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of the things that took place around West Indian Solidarity Day,
which is the first. It coincides with the Labor Day
observances in the United States. It's the first Monday of
September and in this case this year was the first,
and West Indian Solidarity Day is a day that is
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really acknowledging the harmony, the collective engagement, the common threads
amongst Caribbean kinfolk and persons that make the Caribbean their home.
And again, going back into the sixties when it became
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part of the Virgin Islands Code, the observance of West
Indian Solidarity for persons that were coming to the Virgin
Islands from other parts of the West Indies as it
was more commonly referred to them, and having some degree
of familihood. So when we're saying solidarity, it wasn't only
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the political sphere. It was in the social sphere and
the spiritual sphere and amongst our families, you know what
were the cultural nuances that kept us together and kept
us harmonious. This has grown into stronger ties amongst persons
residing in the Caribbean as far as south as Surinama
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and as far north as the Bahamas Bermuda, and it
includes those areas that also touch the Caribbean Sea. There's
a Caribbeanists in Panama, just as there is in Belize
and Honduras, just as it is in Costa Rica, and
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we'll include our Salvador and Nicaragua. Guatemala sometimes tends to
hold into a very indigenous native Ramarindian Mayan kind of vibe. However,
there's a presence amongst the Caribbeanists, the movement between island
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spaces and the movement between coastal areas that shared, and
the same thing when it comes to Guyana, the English
speaking parts of Venezuela, the Spanish speaking parts of Guian,
the French speaking and of course Surinama, the Dutch and
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Propiamental speaking. I think It's important to know that there's
a tie in these spaces because sometimes we overlook the
connections and a lot of our brothers and sisters from
the forty eight contiguous US are have family. You know,
we're one people in many ways. Granted, we have cultural
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heritage nuances that appear different. However, when we look at
the core of our families and begin to celebrate together
and harmoniously, we'll find that there are a number of
our families that have ties in these other Caribbean, Central
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and South American spaces. Or either they've migrated from the
forty eight Contiguous and we're in the Korean Americas, or
they were in the Caribbean Americas and migrated to the
forty eight contiguous US. And I'm very clear on some
of these things because there's again we talk about with
any solidarity day, We've talked about Labor Day, you know,
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just celebrating the labor, the work, the contributions of persons
in these spaces. You know, in there have been resolutions
put in place as an international day within the United Nations,
the International Day of Charity, which is September fifth, and
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this is an annual observance and there's many more. You
can easily just go to International Day's u and observances
and you'll see a host. Almost every day of the
year has some resolution, a proclamation, some type of solidarity,
some type of an announcement, some type of celebration, or
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at least a moment of reflection or moment of remembrance
or even just an observance. And it's really important, it's
really important to observe honor and speak to that. September seventh,
and I'm using the ones that we tend to acknowledge
and integrate into some of our spaces where we teach,
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where we learn, where we engage in creative artivism and
community activism and other humanitarian efforts. There's the International Literacy
Day now that really comes through UNESCO as the United
Nations focuses on areas around economics, education, social organizations and structures,
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and of course you know various elements of culture. And
on the eighth of September that is International Literacy Day,
and for even inside of organizations international organizations like Rotary International,
it extends for the entire month in regards to looking
at things around literacy and basic literacy and the importance
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of literacy What is interesting is even on my day
and I claimed this day, the day of my birth,
September ninth, is also a time of observance referred to
as International Day to Protect Education from a Tech. I
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found that to be really interesting because sometimes people look
at these things and they you know, what does that mean?
In other words? And I highlight this quote no child
should risk death to learn. And there was a number
of reports and I'll share this. In twenty twenty five,
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six years after the first observance of the International Day
to Protect Education from Attack, violence against education continues to escalate.
Between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, there were
around six thousand attacks targeting students, educators, and educational institutions.
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The use of schools for military purposes rose by twenty percent,
and over ten thousand students were killed, abducted, arrested, or harmed.
Attacks on education and conflict zones have reached alarming levels.
Over the past year. There was a forty four percent
increase in attacks on schools, leading to the death, abduction,
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and trauma of thousands of students and teachers. These violations
threatened not only individual lives, but the future of entire communities.
The United Nations continues to advocate for safe access to education,
urging countries to invest in resilient education systems and to
fully implement the Safe Schools Declaration. To mark the day,
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UNESCO and partners have hosted high level events in Geneva
under the theme Challenging Narratives Reshaping Action. And I think
it's important that we just keep that in context, especially
in regard to the acts of violence and outright terrorism
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being launched on university campuses, Catholic schools, public schools, parochial schools,
just places of learning where children learners, teachers, educators, para
professionals and everyone in between. Parents, grandparents should feel safe
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in a learning environment. It should be seen as a
sacred space similar to a church, but even churches of
being violated, temples, synagogues, matches, places of worship. And it
speaks significantly to what is happening with humanity, like, really,
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what's happening with humanity that persons feel that it is
okay or some degree of normalcy to bring such acts
of unnecessary violence into spaces of learning or worship or
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recreation peace. And I share this from the space of
highlighting some of these international days just for this particular time.
The fifteenth of September is highlighted as an International Day
of Democracy, which is definitely challenging when democracy seems to
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be in a state of flux or imbalance in many
parts of the world, because it's no longer it's more
like a demonocracy or colonialocracy. You know, we're colonizers and
demonic behaviors reign instead of liberty, justice, freedom, peace, tranquility
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for all right, those wonderful words that are in various songs,
pledges of allegiance, constitutional documents, etc. And so this is
this particular day, and it's been in place over eighteen.
I believed this is the eighteenth theary. It's interesting that
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the highlight let's again listen to what is coming from
the United Nations. Democracy draws its strength from people, their voices,
their choices, and their participation in shaping their societies. It
flourishes when rights are protected, particularly for those most often
left behind. Marking the eighteenth International Day of Democracy twenty
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twenty five, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Budis highlighted quote
the courage of people everywhere who are shaping their societies
through dialogue, participation, and trust deeming these efforts is more
vital than ever at a time when democracy and the
rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division and
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shrinking civic space unquote. And again, the whole idea around
this un observance of the International Day of Democracy is
grounded in from voice to action, and I think it's
important to know that again and I quote, and a
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time of shrinking civic space and rising disinformation, building, trust,
dialogue and shared decision making is more urgent than ever.
Rooted in the principle of we the peoples, this event
and these events rather aim to show democracy as a
living force for agency, hope, and cooperation. And this is
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wonderful in words and in theory. How do we implement
this in a society in a world that is being
challenged almost every minute to create imbalance and to continue
marginalizing people and to interfere with equality and to sanitize
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acts of terror and genocidal antagonisms that are happening around
the globe. It's difficult, yes, and part of what is
also being shared in this they have a number of
pieces around why democracy matters. There's like deos. You can
go to the United Nations, you go to un dot org,
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forward slash Democracy Day, and you can easily find information
about what are some of the ways in which to
protect rights and how do we begin to work together
to harmonize some of the methods for quote addressing and
using the media regardless of the frontiers that are being exposed.
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And I paused there for a minute because it's very challenging.
Because some of us are able to use certain platforms,
they may not reach the millions, but we're hoping that
person as we'll begin to share some of the content
that is being offered so that our people, our humanity,
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our women, our men, our grandparents, our parents, our children,
and everyone in between begins to restore balance, harmony. There's
so much anger. There's so much it's like sulfur everywhere.
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Persons are just burning with anger. And a lot of
times it's because of a lack of information, a lack
of understanding, a lack of coordination, not having an opportunity
to converse on certain matters before passing judgment on certain matters.
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We've got persons that overlook one of the more significant observances. Also,
because you have World Tourism Day later in the month
and we can come back and share that you've got
an International Translation Day. Towards the end of the month,
you've got World Maritime Date. That's a pretty big day
for most persons, especially people that recognize the importance of
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maritime industries, transporting on the water, sailing, and much much more.
There's also International Day of Sign Languages, which is the
twenty third of September. I'm gonna take a segment. I'm
gonna pause after sharing a little bit about September twenty first,
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primarily because it was one of the former officers of
one of our local community organizations approaching me, and usually
we would do things on September twenty first. What day
do you think is September twenty first? I know it
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sounds like a game show and you win there. The
day is International Day of Peace, and around the world,
persons actually they do broadcasts, they do peace circles, they
create the peace sign. People will do activities. They may
actually march in solidarity. Some people do silent walks, some
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people do candle light visuals to invoke a sense of
peace and tranquility for the entire day. You'll see the
devil peace with the belief all of that. In terms
of upholding human rights, addressing conflict areas with the promotion
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of peace. And so I will share again I like
using what the you and says, so the persons do
not think this is like just an individualistic peace and
a quote around the world, lives are being ripped apart,
childhoods extinguished, and basic human dignity discarded amidst the cruelty
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and degradations of war. And those are the words of
the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gudetis. The theme for
the International Day of Peace for twenty twenty five is
Act now for a peaceful world. So I'm going to
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put that question out there. What are you doing, what
are you willing to do, who are you willing to
work with to act now for a peaceful world? And
what does that look like now as well as in
the field future. The intention is writ to be maintained, sustained,
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and I'll share these particular references from the United Nations
dot org site. In a time of turbulence to Milton uncertainty,
it is critical for everyone to take concrete action to
mobilize for peace, from peacekeepers on the front lines of conflict,
to community members to students in classrooms around the world.
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Everyone has a role to play. We must speak up
against violence, hate, discrimination, and inequality, practice respect, and embrace
the diversity of our world. There are many ways to
act right now. Spark conversations about the urgent need for
understanding non violence and disarmament. Volunteer in your community, Listen
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to voices different from your own, Challenge discriminatory language in
your workplace, report bullying both online and offline, and take
the time to verify facts before you post on social media.
You can also speak up with your choices, opting to
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purchase items from socially conscious brands or donating to organizations
that promote sustainability in human rights. The United Nations also
works in each of these areas, leading global efforts to
advanced human rights, fight climate change, and prevent and respond
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to conflict. So just keep in mind that this is
part of the sustainable development goals that you know, what
life should look like in the immediate future. You know,
there's seventeen of them. We can go through that list
in a moment. You know, look at the Peace Building Commission,
which actually has this twentieth anniversary this year, and they've
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focused on addressing inequalities poverty, justice, discrimination, you know again
seen as quote potential drivers of violence, and then of
course raising health and living standards and ending all forms
of discrimination and injustice. This is what is intended, this
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is what's been projected, this is what's been talked about,
and many times when we talk about this Act Now campaign,
and again you can go and get They've got information
where you've got apps, videos, all type music, videos and
formative videos, audio pieces to add into your conversation between
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not just now, but in general. How do we bring
these conversations into fruition in a positive, uplifting way to observe, reflect,
honor the International Day of Pace. And I would love
to hear some of your ideas of things that you're
doing or willing to do, because sometimes we overlook what
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the goals are. Right, So when we talk about these
sustainable development goals, and I always encourage people go to
un dot org and just search through. There's so much
information there and it's free. Most of that informaming is free,
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and it's your time and you're getting some well researched
information that you can then share in different platforms. And
the goals have been really moving in the direction. You
can go to that site and it will show you
what the seventeen goals are. It then gives you an
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idea what the targets are, the different events that happen
in the thousands, the publications that have come to support
each of those goals, and of course the actions, and
it's very grounding. So you have of these seventeen sustainable
development goals. The first one. Goal one and poverty in
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all its forms, everywhere. Goal to and hunger. Achieve food
security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal three
ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at
all ages. Goal four ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
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and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Goal five achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal six
ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Goal seven ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all. Goal eight promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Goal nine build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation. Goal ten reduce inequality within among countries.
Goal eleven make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient,
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and sustainable. Goal twelve ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern.
Goal thirteen Take urgent action to combat climate change and
its impacts. Goal fourteen Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas,
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and marine resources for sustainable development. Goal fifteen protect, restore,
and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests,
Combat these certification desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
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and halt biodiversity laws. I know that's a lot in one.
Goal sixteen Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,
Provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable
and inclusive institutions at all levels. And Goal seventeen strengthen
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the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for
Sustainable Development. And I think it's really powerful because some
persons do not always wish to understand it. So I'll
go the first as I said. One is no poverty,
Two is zero hunger, three good health and well being four,
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quality education, five, gender equality six, clean water and sanitation seven,
affordable and clean energy eight decent work in economic growth nine,
industry innovation and Infrastructure, ten reduced inequalities eleven, sustainable cities
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and communities twelve, responsible consumption and production, thirteen Climate action fourteen,
Life below Water, fifteen Life on land sixteen peace, justice
and strong institutions, and seventeen partnerships for the goals, and
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I encourage people look for SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SDGs
dot UN dot org or just Google Sustainable Development Goals
and that way you can you know this is a
working piece of information that has a long lasting, long
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reaching space. And this goes back to the conversation around
act Now for a peaceful world, when persons are not impoverished,
have clean water and basic human needs in it, the
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energy of war lessons, violence decreases significantly and you can
restore a sense of what is that word peace? Not
p I E c E, but p E ace That peace,
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that tranquility that allows for humans to be comfortable with
the camaraderie and the harmony and the tranquility and the
balance and the honoring of respecting one another even when
we differ on certain perspectives. The International Day of Peace
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has its origins from the definitely from the back in
the day. It was formalized after many of the civil
rights human rights movements, marches efforts, and it was lablished
by the United Nations General Assembly through lobbying in the
late seventies, but formalized in eighty one, and then in
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two thousand and one they chose to unanimously vote and
designate a day as a period of non violence and ceasefire.
Just need to get that, and it would be wonderful
if on September twenty first, twenty twenty five, there was
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a global nonviolence environment and a ceasefire. I want us
to think on where I would go with this, and
most of the time I say things from the space
of my aunt as truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine
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righteousness and harmonies will not be any different. The imbalances
that are have created warfare that has caused the lives
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of tens of thousands. This need for people to get
that tens of thousands in Palestine by whoever's responsible. We could,
you know, some Israelis, but there's other alliances with Israel,
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the State of Israel that allow that. And it's time
and people are speaking and people are marching, and there
should be no interference in providing humanitarian support for the survivors.
That should happen before the twenty first, but at least
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by the twenty first on the International Day of Feast.
Persons that claim any form of humanity are encouraged to
take action in that regard. I pause because sometimes when
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you start to say these things, you have to be
very mindful, because this too can be perceived and shared
in a way that persons do not understand respect or
honor different views regarding what is taking place in Palestine,
what's taking place in Haiti, tensional warfare for hundreds of years,
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that is continued, that his rap and stripped at the
very core of humanity for this independent Black African lead
country in the middle of the Caribbean space on the
smaller component of its former Ispanola, San Dominguez, Kiskaya, all
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the names you call it, and to create what appears
to be gang land style warfare but fed by trained
mercenaries and weaponry that comes from some of these same
other countries, whether it's Israel, the US. There needs to
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be a day of peace, days of peace. We need
to just have the day of peace and then continues.
There needs to be you know all of this conflict resolution,
negotiation management needs to be implemented so that persons can
restore balance and harmony in these spaces. We encourage the
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United States military to remove its military forces submarines included
from within the Caribbean space, claiming to look for because
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it started with drug trafficking, and the research has clearly
proven and not just lay persons research or commentary, but
professional vetted research has made it clear that Venezuela is
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not the source of drug trafficking and production. And persons
need to look at the other countries, inclusive of places
like Ecuador in other parts of South America, as well
as manufacturing resource and leaders in the forty eight contiguous US.
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And we need to be real careful on the interference
of the Caribbean as the Zona peace. Not to say
that there are issues in the Caribbean, but when was
the last time persons recall seeing warfare in the Caribbean spaces.
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I want you to ponder on that. And yes, we
could jump to the nineteen eighties and speak of the
US invasion in Grenada supposed to save the people from
Marxists and communists Leninists, and it ended up leading into
an assassination of an entire administration that were elected by
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the people of Grenade at the time. We don't need
a recurrence of that in the region of the Caribbean,
and there has to be a more professional, more humane
approach of how you engage in this region. We do
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not need a Palestine in the Caribbean. We do not
need a Sudan in the Caribbean. We do not need
a Congo in a Caribbean. And we definitely have been
speaking against the chaos and Haiti in the Caribbean. These
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embargoes against q and other countries has been you know, misinformation.
Listen to what was just said in what we met
earlier from the UN. It's misinformation. Persons are using misinformation
as an excuse to create warfare, to create another industry,
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to become trillionaires, its billionairesm isn't enough, and it's costing
the lives of innocent children, women, men, elders, and some
of these survivors will be so traumatized that the in
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the warfare syndrome piece is going to be innate and
continue and we won't have peace. Now that I've said
that part, I'm going to highlight one more piece before
we close tonight, and I want to thank those of
you that have joined in greeting's sister, Queen Patrice. I
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am grateful to have persons that will at least share reflections.
There's things that are said that people don't understand. Let
us share and reason together so that we can have
a higher form of awareness together, that we can learn
how to speak and reason without blowing everybody up off
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the planet, because nature can do that for us. If
that's what the cause is. And those persons moving in
that accord is nothing godly, nothing spiritually grounding, and just
promoting more and more war and more war. You can
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annihilate everybody in m I think you can, but just
that spark of spirit will maintain. And we really need
to do This is time to do something different. We
have persons that speak of conflict resolution until it grows
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out the side of their ears, and now we have
an opportunity for conflict resolution and engagement in exchange. Let's
do that. Stop going after and fostering more warfare. This
is Venezuelan Guyanese issue. People should understand who's going to
make the money at the end of the day, and
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it needs to be addressed differently. So with that for
tonight and the next time that we get together, I'm
looking forward to having more of you, you know, ask
a from encourage them to come and engage with us.
You know, October two and sixteenth will be our broadcast
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October and we'll get an opportunity to cover some other pieces.
There's a lot happening in the Caribbean regions as well
as throughout the Americas and the world, and we send
our prayers of strength and harmony to the families that
are experiencing laws. When you hear the word lynching in
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twenty twenty five, for some of us, it's all too familiar,
especially in Mississippi, and so we send prayers, comforting, healing
heart prayers that justice will be served and that the
truth will come to light, and that all responsible will
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be addressed handled in the way that it needs to
be addressed and handled. Because we're speaking of things that
are happening on university campuses or schools, you know, we
send in Minnesota, we'd spend the whole podcast broadcasts giving
prayers of strength and healing heart mercies because some people
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can't contain their mental imbalance or their antagonisms or their
genocidal terrorist behaviors to even have a different opinion or
to just pop off here we call it just lose
their mind. Yeah, So we're asking take some time, those
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that are listening, that are tuning in, that are here,
share with us. What are things that are happening in
your community that restore peace? What should September twenty first
and every day of the year look like when we
speak of International Day of Peace? How do we maintain ceasefire?
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How do we create a more humane environment wherever you are,
wherever we are, so that it can be sustained, maintained
and help us to build new legacy with that. I
say thank you very much for joining us here at
OZ Speaks. There's so much to talk about. Special shout
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out to the African Union and the care Com Summit
that was held in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia from September
sixth to seventh, followed with the Climate Change Convening, proceeded
with a number of diaspora events. I'm hoping to have
some of the delegates that participated to join us in
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October to give us an update and share some of
that footage that impacts all of us in the diaspora,
as we're speaking truth as power around social justice, self determination, independence, reparations.
I'm gonna say that wasn't again reparation so that we
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can repair the damage is done internally as well as
externally within our communities. Here coming from the Caribbean civilization spaces,
we're asking for it to be global true. With that,
we know that culture heals humanity. Land is our foundation
and spiritual harmony unifies us. We encourage you to share
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with us. Speaks on the first and third Thursday, eight
pm here with the Crew podcasts and again this has
been your host for this evening. Next time, who knows,
you never know who might join me. This is Queen Mother,
doctor chians Err and I look forward to the next time.
Until then, do your best to say focused, keep your
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energy expansive and wide, draw in that love, that healing
heart mercies. At the same time, restore the balance so
that the principles of my aunt truth, just the sort
of reciprocity balanced, divine righteousness and harmony remain in the balance.
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Peace Quartette, good night,
Dona Greetings, good night everyone, hotel, greetings of peace, and
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we are really welcoming you here with the Crew podcast.
Our Thursdays broadcast the first and the third Thursday of
each month at least until the end of twenty twenty
five is US Speaks. We get an opportunity to speak
of building new legacies and in that conversation, that conversation,
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that discourse, that reasoning, we get an opportunity to speak
about things that are related to culture, healing, arts, technology
and spirituality that are grounded in life, inspiration, freedom and education,
chats for life. This is your host, Green Mother, doctor
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Chen Zero and I have an opportunity in this particular
podcast broadcast to really navigate through why counsel, knowledge, power
and prosperity and really bring another set of perspectives to
things that are affecting our women and our men, our children,
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and our elders and everyone above so below inside and
just pushing that energy that allows for us to really
highlight energy that brings body, mind, soul, spirit and consciousness
into a welcoming space, into a balanced space, into a
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space of grace. Usually I would have a guest in
light of a number of things that have happened. We
are very fortunate here in the Virgin Islands to have
some weather past, and while it is hurricane season and
we usually go through a significant amount of trauma psychologically,
physiologically and otherwise, we have been very blessed to be
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inundated with thunderstorms and rain, some flash flooding in certain areas,
but definitely no large damages anything comparative to a Cat
five twice over hurricane. It's interesting that this is a
time where it is the anniversary of the one of
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the more devastating hurricanes that affected the Virgin Islands, specifically
the Isle of Saint Croix in nineteen eighty nine, Hurricane Hugo.
There are actually publications and stories and legends and myths
and some real truths on preparedness when it comes to
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hurricane season, which is every year. You know, hurricane supplication
is in June and then there's prayers at the end
of the sea in November. So think about that almost
a half of the year there's a possibility of the winds,
the world winds, the waters, the seas, the oceans curling
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up and destroying. These are these gatherings of Peruvian aisles
and of course, impacting mainland spaces, because we've seen hurricanes
have become more intensified over the last decade and are
actually going up as far, you know, all the way
to the New England area on the east coast. You know,
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it's just showing the power of nature, the power of
the environment, and why it's important that we respect our
environment to the best of our ability. And I start there,
because what we are also experiencing, you know, give thanks
if there was no loss of life, that we're grateful
that most persons were able to get home or stay
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home safely. You know, we were grateful that they were,
you know, in select infinite engaging wisdom. You know, authorities
were able to give notifications, sometimes a little tardy, but
so their parents, you know, families that had children going
to school were not you know, taking any undue risk,
and especially to go to school to then find out
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they were going to be closed and that in some
even the university had a delayed opening today, and most
of the students because they were experiencing, you know, loss
of power therefore couldn't use internet, the roads were flooded,
or they were certain concerns. You know, many people just
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took it as a day to be in reflection, and
then of course there were those that were sweeping out
water from areas that are low lying. So we just
want to give thanks and praise for that that we
were able to get through that, and that tonight we
can actually have a podcast and broadcasts here because a
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little bit earlier it might not have happened. So I
want to thank the crew Podcasts for their patients. A
special shout out to our visionary sister Queen Angeline for
just being able to make this platform available for those
of us that would like to share, you know, So
if you have questions, anyone that's listening, anyone that tunes
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in that would like to oh for any questions, if
their particular ideas, I'm going to cover a couple of
things that are happening, you know, around this time of
the year. It is a wonderful opportunity to look at
some of the what people refer to as these international days.
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And I speak of these international days, and I'm going
to do it through the lens of the United Nations. First. Second,
because one of the significant days in the month of September,
besides the joy and privilege of being born in this month,
on the ninth month, the ninth day. I don't need
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to tell you the year, but just know that I'm
a senior. It was always a time for me to
just be in a space of reflection and looking at
what was happening in amongst our planetary bodies, what was
happening on the Earth, and not getting caught up in distractions,
and in doing so it also let me highlight some
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of the things that took place around West Indian Solidarity Day,
which is the first. It coincides with the Labor Day
observances in the United States. It's the first Monday of
September and in this case this year was the first,
and West Indian Solidarity Day is a day that is
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really acknowledging the harmony, the collective engagement, the common threads
amongst Caribbean kinfolk and persons that make the Caribbean their home.
And again, going back into the sixties when it became
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part of the Virgin Islands Code, the observance of West
Indian Solidarity for persons that were coming to the Virgin
Islands from other parts of the West Indies as it
was more commonly referred to them, and having some degree
of familihood. So when we're saying solidarity, it wasn't only
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the political sphere. It was in the social sphere and
the spiritual sphere and amongst our families, you know what
were the cultural nuances that kept us together and kept
us harmonious. This has grown into stronger ties amongst persons
residing in the Caribbean as far as south as Surinama
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and as far north as the Bahamas Bermuda, and it
includes those areas that also touch the Caribbean Sea. There's
a Caribbeanists in Panama, just as there is in Belize
and Honduras, just as it is in Costa Rica, and
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we'll include our Salvador and Nicaragua. Guatemala sometimes tends to
hold into a very indigenous native Ramarindian Mayan kind of vibe. However,
there's a presence amongst the Caribbeanists, the movement between island
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spaces and the movement between coastal areas that shared, and
the same thing when it comes to Guyana, the English
speaking parts of Venezuela, the Spanish speaking parts of Guian,
the French speaking and of course Surinama, the Dutch and
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Propiamental speaking. I think It's important to know that there's
a tie in these spaces because sometimes we overlook the
connections and a lot of our brothers and sisters from
the forty eight contiguous US are have family. You know,
we're one people in many ways. Granted, we have cultural
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heritage nuances that appear different. However, when we look at
the core of our families and begin to celebrate together
and harmoniously, we'll find that there are a number of
our families that have ties in these other Caribbean, Central
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and South American spaces. Or either they've migrated from the
forty eight Contiguous and we're in the Korean Americas, or
they were in the Caribbean Americas and migrated to the
forty eight contiguous US. And I'm very clear on some
of these things because there's again we talk about with
any solidarity day, We've talked about Labor Day, you know,
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just celebrating the labor, the work, the contributions of persons
in these spaces. You know, in there have been resolutions
put in place as an international day within the United Nations,
the International Day of Charity, which is September fifth, and
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this is an annual observance and there's many more. You
can easily just go to International Day's u and observances
and you'll see a host. Almost every day of the
year has some resolution, a proclamation, some type of solidarity,
some type of an announcement, some type of celebration, or
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at least a moment of reflection or moment of remembrance
or even just an observance. And it's really important, it's
really important to observe honor and speak to that. September seventh,
and I'm using the ones that we tend to acknowledge
and integrate into some of our spaces where we teach,
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where we learn, where we engage in creative artivism and
community activism and other humanitarian efforts. There's the International Literacy
Day now that really comes through UNESCO as the United
Nations focuses on areas around economics, education, social organizations and structures,
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and of course you know various elements of culture. And
on the eighth of September that is International Literacy Day,
and for even inside of organizations international organizations like Rotary International,
it extends for the entire month in regards to looking
at things around literacy and basic literacy and the importance
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of literacy What is interesting is even on my day
and I claimed this day, the day of my birth,
September ninth, is also a time of observance referred to
as International Day to Protect Education from a Tech. I
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found that to be really interesting because sometimes people look
at these things and they you know, what does that mean?
In other words? And I highlight this quote no child
should risk death to learn. And there was a number
of reports and I'll share this. In twenty twenty five,
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six years after the first observance of the International Day
to Protect Education from Attack, violence against education continues to escalate.
Between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, there were
around six thousand attacks targeting students, educators, and educational institutions.
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The use of schools for military purposes rose by twenty percent,
and over ten thousand students were killed, abducted, arrested, or harmed.
Attacks on education and conflict zones have reached alarming levels.
Over the past year. There was a forty four percent
increase in attacks on schools, leading to the death, abduction,
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and trauma of thousands of students and teachers. These violations
threatened not only individual lives, but the future of entire communities.
The United Nations continues to advocate for safe access to education,
urging countries to invest in resilient education systems and to
fully implement the Safe Schools Declaration. To mark the day,
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UNESCO and partners have hosted high level events in Geneva
under the theme Challenging Narratives Reshaping Action. And I think
it's important that we just keep that in context, especially
in regard to the acts of violence and outright terrorism
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being launched on university campuses, Catholic schools, public schools, parochial schools,
just places of learning where children learners, teachers, educators, para
professionals and everyone in between. Parents, grandparents should feel safe
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in a learning environment. It should be seen as a
sacred space similar to a church, but even churches of
being violated, temples, synagogues, matches, places of worship. And it
speaks significantly to what is happening with humanity, like, really,
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what's happening with humanity that persons feel that it is
okay or some degree of normalcy to bring such acts
of unnecessary violence into spaces of learning or worship or
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recreation peace. And I share this from the space of
highlighting some of these international days just for this particular time.
The fifteenth of September is highlighted as an International Day
of Democracy, which is definitely challenging when democracy seems to
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be in a state of flux or imbalance in many
parts of the world, because it's no longer it's more
like a demonocracy or colonialocracy. You know, we're colonizers and
demonic behaviors reign instead of liberty, justice, freedom, peace, tranquility
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for all right, those wonderful words that are in various songs,
pledges of allegiance, constitutional documents, etc. And so this is
this particular day, and it's been in place over eighteen.
I believed this is the eighteenth theary. It's interesting that
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the highlight let's again listen to what is coming from
the United Nations. Democracy draws its strength from people, their voices,
their choices, and their participation in shaping their societies. It
flourishes when rights are protected, particularly for those most often
left behind. Marking the eighteenth International Day of Democracy twenty
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twenty five, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Budis highlighted quote
the courage of people everywhere who are shaping their societies
through dialogue, participation, and trust deeming these efforts is more
vital than ever at a time when democracy and the
rule of law are under assault from disinformation, division and
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shrinking civic space unquote. And again, the whole idea around
this un observance of the International Day of Democracy is
grounded in from voice to action, and I think it's
important to know that again and I quote, and a
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time of shrinking civic space and rising disinformation, building, trust,
dialogue and shared decision making is more urgent than ever.
Rooted in the principle of we the peoples, this event
and these events rather aim to show democracy as a
living force for agency, hope, and cooperation. And this is
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wonderful in words and in theory. How do we implement
this in a society in a world that is being
challenged almost every minute to create imbalance and to continue
marginalizing people and to interfere with equality and to sanitize
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acts of terror and genocidal antagonisms that are happening around
the globe. It's difficult, yes, and part of what is
also being shared in this they have a number of
pieces around why democracy matters. There's like deos. You can
go to the United Nations, you go to un dot org,
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forward slash Democracy Day, and you can easily find information
about what are some of the ways in which to
protect rights and how do we begin to work together
to harmonize some of the methods for quote addressing and
using the media regardless of the frontiers that are being exposed.
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And I paused there for a minute because it's very challenging.
Because some of us are able to use certain platforms,
they may not reach the millions, but we're hoping that
person as we'll begin to share some of the content
that is being offered so that our people, our humanity,
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our women, our men, our grandparents, our parents, our children,
and everyone in between begins to restore balance, harmony. There's
so much anger. There's so much it's like sulfur everywhere.
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Persons are just burning with anger. And a lot of
times it's because of a lack of information, a lack
of understanding, a lack of coordination, not having an opportunity
to converse on certain matters before passing judgment on certain matters.
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We've got persons that overlook one of the more significant observances. Also,
because you have World Tourism Day later in the month
and we can come back and share that you've got
an International Translation Day. Towards the end of the month,
you've got World Maritime Date. That's a pretty big day
for most persons, especially people that recognize the importance of
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maritime industries, transporting on the water, sailing, and much much more.
There's also International Day of Sign Languages, which is the
twenty third of September. I'm gonna take a segment. I'm
gonna pause after sharing a little bit about September twenty first,
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primarily because it was one of the former officers of
one of our local community organizations approaching me, and usually
we would do things on September twenty first. What day
do you think is September twenty first? I know it
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sounds like a game show and you win there. The
day is International Day of Peace, and around the world,
persons actually they do broadcasts, they do peace circles, they
create the peace sign. People will do activities. They may
actually march in solidarity. Some people do silent walks, some
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people do candle light visuals to invoke a sense of
peace and tranquility for the entire day. You'll see the
devil peace with the belief all of that. In terms
of upholding human rights, addressing conflict areas with the promotion
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of peace. And so I will share again I like
using what the you and says, so the persons do
not think this is like just an individualistic peace and
a quote around the world, lives are being ripped apart,
childhoods extinguished, and basic human dignity discarded amidst the cruelty
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and degradations of war. And those are the words of
the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gudetis. The theme for
the International Day of Peace for twenty twenty five is
Act now for a peaceful world. So I'm going to
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put that question out there. What are you doing, what
are you willing to do, who are you willing to
work with to act now for a peaceful world? And
what does that look like now as well as in
the field future. The intention is writ to be maintained, sustained,
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and I'll share these particular references from the United Nations
dot org site. In a time of turbulence to Milton uncertainty,
it is critical for everyone to take concrete action to
mobilize for peace, from peacekeepers on the front lines of conflict,
to community members to students in classrooms around the world.
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Everyone has a role to play. We must speak up
against violence, hate, discrimination, and inequality, practice respect, and embrace
the diversity of our world. There are many ways to
act right now. Spark conversations about the urgent need for
understanding non violence and disarmament. Volunteer in your community, Listen
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to voices different from your own, Challenge discriminatory language in
your workplace, report bullying both online and offline, and take
the time to verify facts before you post on social media.
You can also speak up with your choices, opting to
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purchase items from socially conscious brands or donating to organizations
that promote sustainability in human rights. The United Nations also
works in each of these areas, leading global efforts to
advanced human rights, fight climate change, and prevent and respond
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to conflict. So just keep in mind that this is
part of the sustainable development goals that you know, what
life should look like in the immediate future. You know,
there's seventeen of them. We can go through that list
in a moment. You know, look at the Peace Building Commission,
which actually has this twentieth anniversary this year, and they've
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focused on addressing inequalities poverty, justice, discrimination, you know again
seen as quote potential drivers of violence, and then of
course raising health and living standards and ending all forms
of discrimination and injustice. This is what is intended, this
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is what's been projected, this is what's been talked about,
and many times when we talk about this Act Now campaign,
and again you can go and get They've got information
where you've got apps, videos, all type music, videos and
formative videos, audio pieces to add into your conversation between
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not just now, but in general. How do we bring
these conversations into fruition in a positive, uplifting way to observe, reflect,
honor the International Day of Pace. And I would love
to hear some of your ideas of things that you're
doing or willing to do, because sometimes we overlook what
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the goals are. Right, So when we talk about these
sustainable development goals, and I always encourage people go to
un dot org and just search through. There's so much
information there and it's free. Most of that informaming is free,
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and it's your time and you're getting some well researched
information that you can then share in different platforms. And
the goals have been really moving in the direction. You
can go to that site and it will show you
what the seventeen goals are. It then gives you an
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idea what the targets are, the different events that happen
in the thousands, the publications that have come to support
each of those goals, and of course the actions, and
it's very grounding. So you have of these seventeen sustainable
development goals. The first one. Goal one and poverty in
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all its forms, everywhere. Goal to and hunger. Achieve food
security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal three
ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at
all ages. Goal four ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
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and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Goal five achieve
gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal six
ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Goal seven ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all. Goal eight promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Goal nine build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation. Goal ten reduce inequality within among countries.
Goal eleven make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient,
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and sustainable. Goal twelve ensure sustainable consumption and production pattern.
Goal thirteen Take urgent action to combat climate change and
its impacts. Goal fourteen Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas,
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and marine resources for sustainable development. Goal fifteen protect, restore,
and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests,
Combat these certification desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation
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and halt biodiversity laws. I know that's a lot in one.
Goal sixteen Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,
Provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable
and inclusive institutions at all levels. And Goal seventeen strengthen
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the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for
Sustainable Development. And I think it's really powerful because some
persons do not always wish to understand it. So I'll
go the first as I said. One is no poverty,
Two is zero hunger, three good health and well being four,
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quality education, five, gender equality six, clean water and sanitation seven,
affordable and clean energy eight decent work in economic growth nine,
industry innovation and Infrastructure, ten reduced inequalities eleven, sustainable cities
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and communities twelve, responsible consumption and production, thirteen Climate action fourteen,
Life below Water, fifteen Life on land sixteen peace, justice
and strong institutions, and seventeen partnerships for the goals, and
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I encourage people look for SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SDGs
dot UN dot org or just Google Sustainable Development Goals
and that way you can you know this is a
working piece of information that has a long lasting, long
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reaching space. And this goes back to the conversation around
act Now for a peaceful world, when persons are not impoverished,
have clean water and basic human needs in it, the
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energy of war lessons, violence decreases significantly and you can
restore a sense of what is that word peace? Not
p I E c E, but p E ace That peace,
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that tranquility that allows for humans to be comfortable with
the camaraderie and the harmony and the tranquility and the
balance and the honoring of respecting one another even when
we differ on certain perspectives. The International Day of Peace
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has its origins from the definitely from the back in
the day. It was formalized after many of the civil
rights human rights movements, marches efforts, and it was lablished
by the United Nations General Assembly through lobbying in the
late seventies, but formalized in eighty one, and then in
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two thousand and one they chose to unanimously vote and
designate a day as a period of non violence and ceasefire.
Just need to get that, and it would be wonderful
if on September twenty first, twenty twenty five, there was
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a global nonviolence environment and a ceasefire. I want us
to think on where I would go with this, and
most of the time I say things from the space
of my aunt as truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, divine
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righteousness and harmonies will not be any different. The imbalances
that are have created warfare that has caused the lives
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of tens of thousands. This need for people to get
that tens of thousands in Palestine by whoever's responsible. We could,
you know, some Israelis, but there's other alliances with Israel,
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the State of Israel that allow that. And it's time
and people are speaking and people are marching, and there
should be no interference in providing humanitarian support for the survivors.
That should happen before the twenty first, but at least
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by the twenty first on the International Day of Feast.
Persons that claim any form of humanity are encouraged to
take action in that regard. I pause because sometimes when
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you start to say these things, you have to be
very mindful, because this too can be perceived and shared
in a way that persons do not understand respect or
honor different views regarding what is taking place in Palestine,
what's taking place in Haiti, tensional warfare for hundreds of years,
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that is continued, that his rap and stripped at the
very core of humanity for this independent Black African lead
country in the middle of the Caribbean space on the
smaller component of its former Ispanola, San Dominguez, Kiskaya, all
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the names you call it, and to create what appears
to be gang land style warfare but fed by trained
mercenaries and weaponry that comes from some of these same
other countries, whether it's Israel, the US. There needs to
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be a day of peace, days of peace. We need
to just have the day of peace and then continues.
There needs to be you know all of this conflict resolution,
negotiation management needs to be implemented so that persons can
restore balance and harmony in these spaces. We encourage the
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United States military to remove its military forces submarines included
from within the Caribbean space, claiming to look for because
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it started with drug trafficking, and the research has clearly
proven and not just lay persons research or commentary, but
professional vetted research has made it clear that Venezuela is
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not the source of drug trafficking and production. And persons
need to look at the other countries, inclusive of places
like Ecuador in other parts of South America, as well
as manufacturing resource and leaders in the forty eight contiguous US.
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And we need to be real careful on the interference
of the Caribbean as the Zona peace. Not to say
that there are issues in the Caribbean, but when was
the last time persons recall seeing warfare in the Caribbean spaces.
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I want you to ponder on that. And yes, we
could jump to the nineteen eighties and speak of the
US invasion in Grenada supposed to save the people from
Marxists and communists Leninists, and it ended up leading into
an assassination of an entire administration that were elected by
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the people of Grenade at the time. We don't need
a recurrence of that in the region of the Caribbean,
and there has to be a more professional, more humane
approach of how you engage in this region. We do
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not need a Palestine in the Caribbean. We do not
need a Sudan in the Caribbean. We do not need
a Congo in a Caribbean. And we definitely have been
speaking against the chaos and Haiti in the Caribbean. These
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embargoes against q and other countries has been you know, misinformation.
Listen to what was just said in what we met
earlier from the UN. It's misinformation. Persons are using misinformation
as an excuse to create warfare, to create another industry,
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to become trillionaires, its billionairesm isn't enough, and it's costing
the lives of innocent children, women, men, elders, and some
of these survivors will be so traumatized that the in
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the warfare syndrome piece is going to be innate and
continue and we won't have peace. Now that I've said
that part, I'm going to highlight one more piece before
we close tonight, and I want to thank those of
you that have joined in greeting's sister, Queen Patrice. I
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am grateful to have persons that will at least share reflections.
There's things that are said that people don't understand. Let
us share and reason together so that we can have
a higher form of awareness together, that we can learn
how to speak and reason without blowing everybody up off
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the planet, because nature can do that for us. If
that's what the cause is. And those persons moving in
that accord is nothing godly, nothing spiritually grounding, and just
promoting more and more war and more war. You can
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annihilate everybody in m I think you can, but just
that spark of spirit will maintain. And we really need
to do This is time to do something different. We
have persons that speak of conflict resolution until it grows
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out the side of their ears, and now we have
an opportunity for conflict resolution and engagement in exchange. Let's
do that. Stop going after and fostering more warfare. This
is Venezuelan Guyanese issue. People should understand who's going to
make the money at the end of the day, and
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it needs to be addressed differently. So with that for
tonight and the next time that we get together, I'm
looking forward to having more of you, you know, ask
a from encourage them to come and engage with us.
You know, October two and sixteenth will be our broadcast
(47:00):
October and we'll get an opportunity to cover some other pieces.
There's a lot happening in the Caribbean regions as well
as throughout the Americas and the world, and we send
our prayers of strength and harmony to the families that
are experiencing laws. When you hear the word lynching in
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twenty twenty five, for some of us, it's all too familiar,
especially in Mississippi, and so we send prayers, comforting, healing
heart prayers that justice will be served and that the
truth will come to light, and that all responsible will
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be addressed handled in the way that it needs to
be addressed and handled. Because we're speaking of things that
are happening on university campuses or schools, you know, we
send in Minnesota, we'd spend the whole podcast broadcasts giving
prayers of strength and healing heart mercies because some people
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can't contain their mental imbalance or their antagonisms or their
genocidal terrorist behaviors to even have a different opinion or
to just pop off here we call it just lose
their mind. Yeah, So we're asking take some time, those
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that are listening, that are tuning in, that are here,
share with us. What are things that are happening in
your community that restore peace? What should September twenty first
and every day of the year look like when we
speak of International Day of Peace? How do we maintain ceasefire?
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How do we create a more humane environment wherever you are,
wherever we are, so that it can be sustained, maintained
and help us to build new legacy with that. I
say thank you very much for joining us here at
OZ Speaks. There's so much to talk about. Special shout
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out to the African Union and the care Com Summit
that was held in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia from September
sixth to seventh, followed with the Climate Change Convening, proceeded
with a number of diaspora events. I'm hoping to have
some of the delegates that participated to join us in
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October to give us an update and share some of
that footage that impacts all of us in the diaspora,
as we're speaking truth as power around social justice, self determination, independence, reparations.
I'm gonna say that wasn't again reparation so that we
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can repair the damage is done internally as well as
externally within our communities. Here coming from the Caribbean civilization spaces,
we're asking for it to be global true. With that,
we know that culture heals humanity. Land is our foundation
and spiritual harmony unifies us. We encourage you to share
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with us. Speaks on the first and third Thursday, eight
pm here with the Crew podcasts and again this has
been your host for this evening. Next time, who knows,
you never know who might join me. This is Queen Mother,
doctor chians Err and I look forward to the next time.
Until then, do your best to say focused, keep your
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energy expansive and wide, draw in that love, that healing
heart mercies. At the same time, restore the balance so
that the principles of my aunt truth, just the sort
of reciprocity balanced, divine righteousness and harmony remain in the balance.
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Peace Quartette, good night,
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