Doctors. And it will be a large number it will be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a battle for the United Nations has raised concerns about latin america being hard hit its economic arm for the region says the effects of the pandemic will likely push millions more into poverty brazil has recorded the most cases of us out of a real run p. S. He reports on the situation on the continent from bogota. Very very worrying numbers coming from braised really get this pipes these concerns the despite the spike in new infections there the president of brazil he had both been out of keeps meaning my seeing the impact that hes will have in brazil he continues to say that hes more worried about the Economic Impact there and so he is attacking mayors and governors who have imposed strict measures in a number of regions across the bridge dealing insisting these measures should and men will be able to go out to just for their essential needs buying food or medicines on monday wednesday and friday when he said will be able to do it on tuesday theres day and saturday well on sunday everybody is expected to stay at home the president there said that even if the measures so far put in place have had positive effects he wants even less people on the streets and he hopes that this will mean that half of the people that go out on a daily basis in peru will go out with these new measures here in colombia also the lock down continues it looks like it has been able to reduce the number of contagious with the government is saying however it is still very worried about a possible increase or spiking cases in the coming days or weeks the lockdown here will go on until april tertius at least for now but there are talks about a possible extension a lot of the worry here is for venice where am i glance and hundreds of them i started walking back to venezuela because with occur in lockdown they havent been able to eat or pay for do a room in the u. K. As government is urging people to observe social distancing measures despite formspring. Weather across the country the u. K. Recorded 708 deaths linked to the virus on saturday the biggest single day rise one of those who died was just 5 years old the child was said to have Underlying Health problems it italy the number of intensive care patients this form for the 1st time the country is also reported its lowest daily rise in deaths in the early 2 weeks and sleeting to hope that the outbreak may be slowing Health Officials in iran are warning of a 2nd wave of cases if people dont follow advice to stay home despite that Industrial Facilities have been reopened in other years yemens who think rebels say that the saudi u. A. E. 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Give you a bay them all good for 30 years you begin to worship it and believe in his power of your life the purpose of the tyrant rightists make anything else unimaginable the 1st dictatorship of the dictatorship in your mind theyre all no superheroes the only super heroes going to save us is all shelves and thats what 99. 00 means its owes them a job so. Little up her own poor nation and not to be and to a fascist and a radical human. Family crabapple a writer journalist and artist guantanamo is a place that runs on secrecy and on censorship but is not just i had an advantage i could drive around the censorship as a journalist i spent much of my time covering protests all over the world the people in the streets today the same people whod been on the streets protesting against austerity 6 to 10 luck. I document people fighting oppression often against impossible odds i drew this right next to the right cops. I explore how all Global Economic system paved the way to a new all for terrorism. With art and with words i document the ways the people are fighting our. Lot. With technology provide the solutions to. All the tools we use to communicate in order. Become our undoing. All we sleepwalk Global Social dystopia. Was. Paul mean you share something were both people that are were deeply changed by 2011 a year of mass uprisings that spread from wisconsin to egypt to new york to greece to syria i got my start as a journalist going down to Zuccotti Park where the occupy wall street protest encampment was and trying to draw the people there you covered pretty much everything. So what about tell me what 2011 meant paul well. I think it was the rebirth of the anticapitalist imagination and id seen the imagination die i was born in 1960 so my dads generation coal miners cotton spinners very heavily trade unionized there was much to and for me the kind of death of imagination was about the soviet union collapsed the never i never cared of the soviet union old most of people i knew who call themselves left wing we cared about all ability to what sociologists call to have agency we saw the ability of groups of people to change the world and then we saw that smashed and then im covering the student protests here in london and suddenly we sort of a new kind of person emerge where you realize youre witnessing a historic rebirth of something of a media its its the imagination the abilities to say in your mind this kind of capitalism isnt working a carbon based economy isnt working dictatorship after dictatorship suddenly looks illegitimate and weak and stupid and elderly so we can change things thats what i think it was i mean we both know because we covered it you know and were right in the middle of it the things went wrong with it but to me its a bigger moment than a 989 for the berlin wall is a bigger moment than 68 its the turn of history back towards the possibility that everything you see oh so this window this financially corrupt hierarchical world could warm day. Thank you in a way that favors people beings close not some tried to create a sort of utopia and microcosm yet every single one of those squares whether it was tough year square in egypt or whether it was you couldnt park was a place where they were trying out a new society there was always a free kitchen and most importantly there was always a library right these are places where even in really sexist societies women. You know they stood as predators right and. These places they didnt just fizzle out thats always the narrative now they were violently smashed they were murdered in some cases or in other cases like in my city they were just beaten and you know shoveled away with dump trucks but the truth is that except in a few places like tunisia the protests of 2011 they did fail and i want to ask why why did they fail and did they fail and i wrong maybe a challenge but i dont i think its quite hard to succeed when your own armed and there are militarized Police Forces whose job it is to to smush your head. I think they didnt they didnt fail in this sense with what i noticed is that there was. The network the Information Network created a resilience social cycle is no talk as if for the 1st time in maternity i. E. 400 years were back to a point where all minds can be hyper social with each other without having to stand in a Public Square and hold a meeting so i think thats what wasnt defeated there was a sudden realisation that lost people my generation for you know these guys wandering around with the ear buds you know the why ear buds are individualized and theyre in a bubble and they dont care about anything else but what we didnt realize is that that bubble was full of networked. Connections and thats what i think the most profound. Impact of it was i mean most of us been profound for you because. Youre wrong it most clearly changed under the impact of having this iconic protest take place almost outside your door it changed everything for me occupy wall street felt like love occupy wall street was the space where i found my political voice where i realized that i could be smart where i realized i could speak before occupy i was an artist a pretty well known artist in my world but one who spent all of her time drawing in nightclubs drawing the sort of rich Hedge Fund People who had destroyed the world and then drawn my glittering friends who danced for them and entertained them and i became a writer because of occupy i was arrested the 1st anniversary of i remember i remember meeting me you sent me a message of the pictures that you do people and see that youve got your hands behind your back and youre looking pretty defiant i was pretty defiant i had a Police Officer i grabbed me by the arm pull me into the street and arrest me for blocking traffic and my 1st piece of writing that ever really meant anything was an article about my arrest and i wasnt angry because i had such a bad arrest i didnt know what hit me you know its certainly was a far easier arrest than you know black and brown people in america face every day for doing nothing but i was just so angry at. The lightness with which arrest was taken such as violence was taken america and i wanted to write about it and i didnt want to just sort of him to round things the way art can do right i wanted to say clearly what was wrong and so thats thats how i became a writer on top of the writing you worked on a collaborative book about what was going grease the altars self change didnt it but what i remember you did this big iconic series of paintings called shell game where you basically reminded me of hieronymous bush only with only with and a couple of casts and theres lots and lots of figures in every wall that it all based around a big figure which it symbolizes something and then a cloud of a crowd of protesters and suddenly the crowd is in is almost like at the center of what youre drawing an and then and then the drawings they pick up the people real people pick up your drawings and hold them up on demonstration i mean that this was cooler than any galleries ive ever had i had artwork that i would be sketching things from occupied during the day and then a few hours later theyre be out on the streets being used as protesters and just they just printed them in and exactly iraq and iran are you know run them off and were holding them. And you know theres always this artificial dichotomy right between art which is supposed to be terribly bad news for peru and you know politics right but i think both you and me are people that we have joined those 2 things well i mean the the me is that as a news journalist at the time i mean remember ive been covering economics i mean and covering economics and business is you know without wanting to criticize anybody who does it is boring i mean literally you know i mean the structure of the world it is you go to join interrogated but you know one Quarterly Results after another and and and then im standing on on 5th avenue in new york outside Lehman Brothers at 9 am and there are people carrying their goods in in a paper box because the banks gone bust and then the state the american state steps in and saves capitalism after 20 years i remember i had to take this stuff you know lying down for 20 years but the state has no role in the system and it was obvious to anyone that this form of capitalism was doing the way it changed my journalism is on blocked me all my colleagues on newsnight used to say we should say why we so stupid why we saw on free in the way we speak and we kind of whisper to each other its because we said because every one of those fears that were going to say bush is a war criminal live on air monitoring ourselves with a monitoring yourself makes you kind of clench its really syria and shouldnt the 2008 made me realize this form of capitalism is doomed one of the things that strikes me is how much of our present moment comes out of that year that year of 2011. There is a new series of horizontal network protests protests led by young people led by queer people led by women in puerto rico where my father is from one 3rd of the island was out in the streets protesting against the corrupt governor ricky rajjo and they drove him out of power the 1st time this ever happened in puerto rican history one 3rd of people rights there are protests in iraq that are being met with extraordinary violence by the state but still young men and especially young women are out in squares you know asserting their dignity asserting their right to live in a country that isnt quite talk recy and people impose often assume that what is driving these things are either pure economics or you form rest and theyll get over it was what it was made this repetitive pattern over and over again how princes 2011 me to the example of the of lebanon or the iraqi protest it is people who are literally prepared just on the streets and be shocked because they cant see a future but what is it that you think they want dignity i think people want to get a people of course want decent jobs and they want to be fed they want to power grid that works right but above all theres the sense of humiliation in puerto rico people carried signs and they chanted about dignity but the record had a hurricane 2 years ago called maria and 4000 people died in the aftermath and they didnt just die from like you know the storm or drowning that is that they died from neglect from the neglect that was. Done by the American Government to support the rico as a colony and from neglect by the corrupt local elite and the spark that kicked off those protests was that the point that he can center for Investigative Journalism published chats where ricky rose say oh the governor joe and his friends were joking about feeding the bodies of elderly people who died in the hurricane vultures and so you went and drew that normally drew you to pause in the reconstruction because because again its like flu is like bone dry fluidity isnt it exactly should lead a journalist is an artist suddenly an artist is the trying to really you know rewire the grid. Was a feeling i mean when i went back i hadnt been back since i was a little kid right and i hadnt been back since my grandparents died and i had not been as connected with that part of myself and then when i saw not just that the hurricane it happened but like my friends you know in the mountains that they didnt have any like Running Water or power they had to wait on line 20 hours for gas i took the 1st flight i could afford down the plane was entirely filled with other with the beacons and we were all carrying duffel bags filled with water filters and batteries and anything you can take us even if youre going to report like what sort of jerk shows have. At their friends house where their friend doesnt have any fresh food and where they have to get the water out of the side of the mountain and they dont bring anything to help right and. For me the thing that struck me the most was that what save puerto rico and this is what i think will save all of us in times of collapse and Climate Change it was the solidarity of people it was not the state it was not the n. G. O. S it was not like rich people with a lot of money it was people. Went to their elderly neighbors and they checked in on them and they set up mutual aid kitchens they cleared roads with machetes if they had to they set up clinics people went from you know town to town in puerto rico to bring water they set up a Massive Network of Solidarity Centers and was from the Solidarity Centers that the protests that overthrew the governor came that it was from that not just the centers themselves but also that that was right and we can do this we have been abandoned but we can do this we have dignity we have asserted our dignity by clear in our roads and feeding each other so this play that i wrote called why is kicking off everywhere which is based on the book i tried to do a sort of instant history of the way elites work what to do about this explosion of hope and freedom and they tried 1st of all censoring the internet the next thing they tried was switching off the internet is what they wanted to. The next thing is that they do the kind of propaganda that doesnt work but in the end i think they came up with an ingenious solution which should be we should have expected because this information theory was a warm watch. It is an Information Network most effectively is noise exactly and what they did is they said stop trying to just sense of this stuff just fill the entire inforce fear full of rubbish and. What do we do about that mean you in our own different ways are trying to tell something that some people call truth what do we do about it something very hard right and my last book was about syria that i did that amazing syrian journalist not when he and anyone who has reported on syria knows that there is an intense just Information Campaign were crimes by the assad regime have been proven over and over and over again and yet on social media on the internet theres just this attempt to flood that space with doubt and to smear journalists and 1st responders right and. Its very dispiriting at 1st right to us you know people who are trying to report and i think for people who are trying to learn the truth a lot of them just they shrug their shoulders and theyre like everyone lies its all nonsense and they sort of tune out however ice think that sometimes one of the functions of art right art is to distill and what we need now is focus as well and with that i want to open up to questions. You have been talking about agency and the role technology. So i would like to ask what is your take on the role of technology for agency and selfdetermination of oppressed groups its a very m