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Democracy may be an abstract concept, but it holds the very essence of our autonomy and humanity, says lawyer and human rights advocate Fatma Karume. Sharing her journey navigating a tumultuous political transition in Tanzania that put her life at risk, she highlights the importance of speaking truth to power and fighting for a brighter…

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Democracy may be an abstract concept, but it holds the very essence of our autonomy and humanity, says lawyer and human rights advocate Fatma Karume. Sharing her journey navigating a tumultuous political transition in Tanzania that put her life at risk, she highlights the importance of speaking truth to power and fighting for a brighter democratic future.

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62 Comments

  1. @MickyLion5527

    May 22, 2024 at 7:37 am

    Ab ki baar 400 paar

    • @kevulya

      May 22, 2024 at 4:40 pm

      😂

  2. @btsgirl4709

    May 22, 2024 at 7:37 am

    Covid was good for Tanzania at least in one aspect .

  3. @user-zp5jy6yz9c

    May 22, 2024 at 7:43 am

    Now this horror is happening in Russia 😭

    • @daydreambeliever6603

      May 22, 2024 at 8:07 am

      Do you realize how close we are in this country to this?

    • @Qwairy

      May 22, 2024 at 9:38 am

      Is? It has been happening for ages in russia.

    • @kevulya

      May 22, 2024 at 4:36 pm

      😢 India

  4. @SonuKumar-jx4ip

    May 22, 2024 at 7:49 am

    what about one global democracy ?

    • @TheLivirus

      May 22, 2024 at 11:53 am

      Nah, smaller organizations are less prone to corruption. Better with many small democracies than one big.

    • @pgjybbtqnrqehbkffbntwnhph2924

      May 22, 2024 at 7:29 pm

      if it helps you, then you can think of “UN as federated global democracy”

  5. @shaunpatryck

    May 22, 2024 at 8:01 am

    Never allow a leftist to spew their nonsense

  6. @daydreambeliever6603

    May 22, 2024 at 8:03 am

    The speed at which democracy dies is terrifying.

  7. @rokicat7391

    May 22, 2024 at 8:18 am

    Censorship in South Korea is pretty bad too. President Yun switched up the presidents of the public broadcasting news that weren’t completely “right-winged” making them apologize for spreading “fake news”. And there is massive pressure against any left-winged media that are left…

    • @Marmitaboy_

      May 22, 2024 at 10:35 am

      This have started long ago after the war, the same goes for Japan.

  8. @carsgunsandguitars

    May 22, 2024 at 8:29 am

    Democracy is always short lived, which is why we are seeing the destruction of our once great nation. If we had stayed a constitutional republic we could have made it. But it’s over now.

  9. @Ninja9JKD

    May 22, 2024 at 8:40 am

    Stop using false terms. We do not live in a democracy! We live in a Constitutional Republic!

    A democracy is mob rule by fools.

  10. @dariasraven

    May 22, 2024 at 8:46 am

    We need Democratic Socialism in the United States.

  11. @arkaroy9827

    May 22, 2024 at 8:56 am

    Sounds exactly like India

    • @kevulya

      May 22, 2024 at 4:37 pm

      Yes exactly 😢

  12. @arnarogbjorn

    May 22, 2024 at 8:57 am

    Remember to vote people! It shows that you care and a dictator only needs political unwillingness in “his” people to take over a country!

    • @sophiamarchildon3998

      May 23, 2024 at 4:44 pm

      If only the white [edit: as in blank] vote was respected and not discarded. A white vote is a “none of the above” answer to an election (not an absence of vote). If white vote was truly taken into account as the rightful voice of the people it is, I bet a lot more people would vote. In case of white vote majority, this could mean that the whole “democratic” system offered to the people is being rejected and a new, better, more important, overhauled, system must be realized as demanded by the people.

  13. @saadelmaaqili4051

    May 22, 2024 at 9:22 am

    FOR SUPER EAAAARTH

  14. @platero814

    May 22, 2024 at 9:32 am

    Authocracy is the new COVID, but there is an antidote. Like Fatma Karume, we all need to raise our voices.

  15. @MyintMyatKhaing-sd1gn

    May 22, 2024 at 9:54 am

    My own country, Myanmar is fighting to get back Democracy.

    • @Marmitaboy_

      May 22, 2024 at 10:33 am

      Just for you to know, Facebook knew about what was going to happen and still didn’t report it to the authorities. This happened in other places as well.

    • @Xiquinhodasilva99

      May 22, 2024 at 10:33 am

      Just for you to know, Facebook knew about what was going to happen and still didn’t report it to the authorities. This happened in other places as well.

  16. @jeffgiveon

    May 22, 2024 at 11:22 am

    !I have about 5% of my portifolio in AAPL stock, any advice on any other that I can grow my $200 k capital to a million dollars??

    • @phillipdenip

      May 22, 2024 at 11:23 am

      You need an expert. I’m guided by Adviser Bruce Murdock a widely known consuitant..

    • @lewiyipolerg

      May 22, 2024 at 11:23 am

      I managed to grow a nest egg of around 120k to over a Million within 3 months. I’m especially grateful to Adviser Bruce Murdock, for his expertise and exposure to different areas of the market.

    • @jeffgiveon

      May 22, 2024 at 11:24 am

      nice! once you hit a big milestone, the next comes easier. How can i reach him, if you don’t mind me asking?

    • @lewiyipolerg

      May 22, 2024 at 11:24 am

      look up his name on the web for his website..

    • @jeffgiveon

      May 22, 2024 at 11:24 am

      I’ve just looked up his full name on my browser and found his webpage without sweat, very much appreciate this..

  17. @TheLivirus

    May 22, 2024 at 11:48 am

    Threats to democracy: censor, propaganda, mass surveillance, search results manipulation, non-transparent government, corporate finance of political campaigns, supragovernmental institutions, private central banks, etc.

  18. @waseemrana

    May 22, 2024 at 11:57 am

    Very week arguments. One-sided story that you lived to tell. Remember many leaders have been murdered in democratic governments. Remember Hitler too was democratically elected. Don’t forget Israeli government also claims to be a democracy. In addition, Edward Snowdon and Chelsea Manning were punished for speaking by their own democratic government. Democracy is so over-rated.

  19. @harrypearle9781

    May 22, 2024 at 12:17 pm

    IDEA CONTESTS === IDEA CONTESTS for Democrats to dump TRUMP, now!
    This is a great video, but can it wake up voters? Or is it just preaching to the choir?
    ASK people to submit AD IDEAS and test them on voters, to find out what really works>
    ================================================================ TNX

  20. @vladdumitrica849

    May 22, 2024 at 12:47 pm

    Democracy is when those who make decisions on your behalf have the duty to ask for your consent first. Today’s republics are actually modern oligarchies where the interest groups of the rich are arbitrated by the people, that is, you can choose from which table of the rich you will receive crumbs.
    The “fatigue” of democracy occurs when there is a big difference between the interests of the elected and the voters, thus people lose confidence in the way society functions. As a result, poor and desperate citizens will vote with whoever promises them a lifeline, i.e. populists or demagogues.
    The democratic aspect is a collateral effect in societies where the economy has a strong competitive aspect, that is, the interests of those who hold the economic power in society are divergent. Thus those whealty, and implicitly with political power in society, supervise each other so that none of them have undeserved advantages due to politics. For this reason, countries where mineral resources have an important weight in GDP are not democratic (Russia, Venezuela, etc.), because a small group of people can exploit these resources in their own interest. In poor countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc.) the main exploited resource may even be the state budget, as they have convergent interests in benefiting, in their own interest, from this resource. It is easy to see if it is an oligarchy because in a true democracy laws would not be passed that would not be in the interest of the many.
    The first modern oligarchy appeared in England at the end of the 17th century. After the bourgeois revolution led by Cromwell succeeded, the interest groups of the rich were unable to agree on how to divide their political power in order not to reach the dictatorship of one. The solution was to appoint a king to be the arbiter. In republics, the people are the arbiter, but let’s not confuse the possibility of choosing which group will govern you with democracy, that is, with the possibility of citizens deciding which laws to pass and which not to.
    The solution is modern direct democracy in which every citizen can vote, whenever he wants, over the head of the parliamentarian who represents him. He can even dismiss him if the majority of his voters consider that he does not correctly represent their interests.
    It’s like when you have to build a house and you choose the site manager and the architect, but they don’t have the duty to consult with you. The house will certainly not look the way you want it, but the way they want it, and it is more certain that you will be left with the money given and without the house. It is strange that outside of the political sphere, nowhere, in any economic or sports activity, will you find someone elected to a leadership position and who has failure after failure and is not fired after 4 years. We, the voters, must be consulted about the decisions and if they have negative effects we can dismiss them at any time, let’s not wait for the soroco to be fulfilled, because we pay, not them. In any company, the management team comes up with a plan approved by the shareholders. Any change in this plan must be re-approved by the shareholders and it is normal because the shareholders pay.

  21. @twmda5068

    May 22, 2024 at 12:57 pm

    Tanzania sounds like the USA now … with Biden administration and Dem Party lawfare and autocracy.

  22. @zarazalazar

    May 22, 2024 at 2:25 pm

    You’re my hero ❤

  23. @ronkirk5099

    May 22, 2024 at 3:19 pm

    Hearing about others fighting for and suffering to achieve democracy in their countries makes it all the more important for us in democratic countries to work to maintain what we already have. Don’t take it for granted or you could lose it and once lost, it may be very difficult to restore it.

    • @ahmedalhaithami9456

      May 23, 2024 at 4:09 pm

      Exactly, in Yemen we lived for tow years a semi democracy with national dialogue conference, we all raised our expectations to see our country free of corruption.
      But now everything is collapsed and a coup happened furthermore the state is divided, killing in everywhere, corruption is high, education and services are disappeared, now we have been living in this situation since 2015, by each day we lose our country for year.

      So defend your country, democracy, transparency, rule of law, freedom, human rights, and all other values

  24. @pinealgasm

    May 22, 2024 at 9:11 pm

    do you have any disabled friends?

  25. @pinealgasm

    May 22, 2024 at 9:13 pm

    every single one of my twitter followers are fake.

  26. @marcvolpe8252

    May 22, 2024 at 10:33 pm

    I WAS BORN IN BORGETTO SICILY

  27. @abhishekarora4007

    May 23, 2024 at 8:12 am

    India is going in opposite direction. Democracy to elected autocracy

    • @NipunSyal

      May 23, 2024 at 10:59 am

      I feel the exact opposite. The West or the EU doesn’t decide our course of action anymore. Terror attack on civilians is also a thing of the past. India’s space program is making money, India also has started selling missiles for profit. However, the west isn’t liking it and wants us to push back very badly.

  28. @GratefulHead1969

    May 23, 2024 at 10:25 am

    That was fantastic!

  29. @arcadiagreen150

    May 23, 2024 at 10:45 am

    You can vote for anyone you like…..

    As long as it is Joe Biden

    This is not tyranny it is….democracy

  30. @arcadiagreen150

    May 23, 2024 at 10:47 am

    The “Sinclair broadcast script” will show you what they have redfined democracy as. Google that

  31. @amandamay6405

    May 23, 2024 at 3:25 pm

    This TedTalk is a must-watch in light of Project 2025.

  32. @LallyLechelt

    May 23, 2024 at 11:42 pm

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    • @HambrickDmitriev

      May 23, 2024 at 11:43 pm

      Oh really? Tell me more! Always interested in hearing stories of successes.

    • @LallyLechelt

      May 23, 2024 at 11:43 pm

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    • @LallyLechelt

      May 23, 2024 at 11:43 pm

      After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.

    • @ChristopherRyan-rq2rw

      May 23, 2024 at 11:44 pm

      I know Ana Graciela Blackwelder, and I have also had success…

    • @ChristopherRyan-rq2rw

      May 23, 2024 at 11:44 pm

      Absolutely! I have heard stories of people who started with little or no knowledge but managed to emerge victorious thanks to Ana Graciela Blackwelder.

  33. @cheersmodreams691

    May 24, 2024 at 8:24 am

    We in America can understand the failure of judicial support for the rule of law as it is playing out here and will grearly increas aftr The Donald is chosen to be our leader, just as your people chose The Butcher.

  34. @saidnassor5346

    May 25, 2024 at 4:13 am

    Your family owns everything in zanzibar

  35. @ds7891

    May 26, 2024 at 2:43 am

    Why you never mentioned in your talks what your grandfather Karume did in Zanzibar during post 1964.😢

    • @mohamedmoledina6403

      May 26, 2024 at 3:03 am

      And her father in 2000

  36. @azizamri1522

    May 26, 2024 at 3:16 am

    Democracy was killed by your grandfather. Why don’t you talk about it?

  37. @Alpha-ro8sc

    May 26, 2024 at 9:27 am

    Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting what’s for dinner.

  38. @curiouscynic4357

    May 27, 2024 at 12:21 am

    Life was horrific during the time of Karume. Idle talk without self-reflection. Phrases like democracy and freedom are favorite talking points. Corruption is rampant to this day.

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