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- [George W. Bush] American and coalition forces
are in the early stages of military operations
to disarm Iraq, to free its people,
and to defend the world from great danger.
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(rapid gunfire blasting)
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(crosstalk)
- There's been several
casualties already (crosstalk).
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(moves into syncopated digital tones, cultural cello music)
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- Because of the waves of migration
that happened in Amman,
first of all you have the Palestinian migrations to Amman,
then you have the Iraqis that are coming to Amman,
that came to Amman.
And then you have the Syrians,
and then you have the Somalis, and the Yemanis,
and the Sudanis.
And then you have the ex-pat community
that also coming to Amman to work in humanitarian work.
Everyone that's coming to Amman is bringing
their own culture, and their own music,
and their own food, and their own, you know ideas,
and the way they look at life.
And that's creating a rich, vibrant fabric.
(culturally rich and flowing acoustic bass and cello music)
Well my name is Mohammed Zakaria.
I'm 32 years old.
I'm a Palestinian, Jordanian.
I've always had a identity crisis.
I never had an identity crisis, I was like, yeah whatever.
And then I was traveling to the US once,
and everybody was asking me, "Where you from?"
And I was like, where am I from?
Am I from Jordan, am I Palestinian, what am I?
Now I say I'm a Jordanian Palestinian.
My parents are Palestinian, I never lived in Palestine.
Like any Palestinian family you always hear about Palestine
and the stories, and I have family there.
I visit quite often.
I got a skateboard when I was 10 years old
as a birthday gift.
From there I was just riding around.
And then when I was 16 we got the internet,
and I found out you can do tricks.
That was it for me, I was like yeah,
that's what I wanted to do.
- [Artist] Irritated?
No, I don't think so, I think just interested.
So many are interested in my music.
They come up and say things like,
"How do you write those songs?
"What do you do first?"
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How do you write those songs?
(buzzy digital music) ♪ Yo, yo ♪
♪ St-St-St-St- stop stop go ♪
♪ Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop go go ♪
♪ Yo yo ♪
♪ Oh my god ♪
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♪ Oh my god ♪
(scratching vinyl, chants and synthesizer music)
♪ Oh my god just look at me oh my god ♪
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(wheels scraping)
(Tamer laughs)
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- Skateboarding is 99% failure and 1% success.
And so in order to land the trick you have
to fall so many times.
And I think this shared struggle that all skateboarders
understand is something that's quite unique.
I understand your struggle to land the straight,
it's a sentimental battle that you have to go
to land this trick.
And so I relate to you on a deeper level.
We used to go to my friends house in Smeisani,
and skate in his backyard for a bit.
And then we'd go to cruise the streets looking for spots.
And we usually just ended up in the Burger King
of Smeisani, skating in the parking lot,
there's a small curb that we always like to skate.
From there,
the culture street was built.
And it was perfect it was like a big pedestrian plaza.
It was all marble, anything you might need really.
Benches, you know ledges, stairs.
Anything a skateboarder would need.
And so that was like, whoa that's our spot.
(wheels thuds)
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(man singing in foreign language)
We used to get in a lot of trouble with people there.
'Cause you know if you bring anything new into a culture
it's gonna be resisted.
That's like the initial reaction to it.
And so from there,
we started skated there.
And then the Iraq War happened.
And then there was a bunch of kids who moved
from Iraq, a bunch of ex-pat kids moved
from Iraq to Amman.
And they heard about the skate scene in the cultural street.
There was like four of us.
And was me and three other friends.
And from there it started growing.
And what happened after was Red Bull was having
a skate competition.
And I think this is the point where skateboarding
and the scene in Jordan actually blew up.
So this is when we found there was a bunch
of other people who skate.
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I think skateboarding's about abilities more than anything.
It's the way you see things.
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That tells you that there's not neccessarily
one way to look at things.
There's so many ways to look at things.
And like a single object that you look at
can be viewed from so many different perspectives,
creating so many different meanings.
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Basically, you know the city is like
a playground for skateboarders.
Regular people call it like obstacles,
skaters call it skate spots.
This is not an obstacle, this is a spot for me
to have fun, this is a spot for me to skate.
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At the end of the day it's just fun,
skateboarding is fun, and this is why I think
a lot of kids are hooked on skateboarding.
You go out with your crew and you're just goofing around
having fun, and you're challenging yourself.
This is the only challenge that you have,
it's a mental challenge inside your head.
It's the challenge you create for yourself.
Nobody's forcing you into doing a certain trick.
Nobody's forcing you to skate a certain way,
or certain style, you do what you want to do,
and you have the community around you to support you.
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I think the space in Amman is very discriminating.
If you're a young kid,
you don't have any money, there's really no where
for you to go.
So you end up on the street and this is where
problems start, and women are like foreign to you,
they're like aliens.
Because you never interacted with women.
You go to public schools it's segregated.
You weren't allowed in coffee shops,
'cause it's like they have a couples only policy.
You weren't allowed in malls.
The space in Amman is very discriminating.
It's either residential space, or a private space.
If you don't have a certain socioeconomic status
it was hard for you to do anything.
That's why skateboarding was very important to me,
because it was an outlet from all that stuff.
(wheels scraping)
And so in 2014
I got contacted by Make Life Skate Life,
which is a German NGO.
What they do is they build skate parks
in underprivileged communities, or areas.
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That was a really emotional time for me
to be able to raise that much money.
And then, the volunteers who came to Amman,
it was like a bunch of volunteers from Europe,
from the States, from England,
from like a bunch a different places.
They met up in Amman.
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The thing with skateboarding is that if you're,
if you're a skater and you go anywhere else,
you automatically have friends from the skate community.
And so, you know these people were friends
before they even knew each other.
The energy on the construction site was
the nicest energy.
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The idea is that you form the shape of a skate park
before you start laying any concrete.
The prepping alone was a lot of work.
And then the pouring of the concrete,
to make the concrete smooth it has
to go through three rounds.
It was all done by hand, you know.
I think the love for skateboarding manifested itself
in the skate park in the construction side.
And the cool thing about the construction is,
the construction period is that it wasn't something
that was fenced off.
It wasn't something that was dropped on to the community
without them knowing what was going on.
The community was really involved.
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(children playing)
The name 7 Hills came from Amman,
because it was built on seven mountains.
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(children playing)
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I think the city's also manifested in the skate park
in a way, 'cause you see the community at the skate park.
We have kids from Palestine, we have kids from Iraq,
we have kids from Syria, from Yeman, from Somalia,
from Sudan, boys and girls.
And they're all like mingling together in this community.
Just kids want to have fun, you know.
If you bring something that's fun into a community
and you say, "Here, go have fun,"
I think all the barriers kind of like disappear.
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- My name is Kas Wauters.
I'm the skateboarding director of 7 Hills.
I'm from Belgium from Rouvroy.
And I came for the first time to Amman in 2016,
the end of 2016.
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(Kas yells)
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Like the protein of skateboarding is having fun,
and having fun makes it possible for kids
to forget about all the differences they see between people.
And just interact in a positive way with each other.
(wheels scraping)
The tool to connect
refugees, locals, boys, girls,
just as like one thing, and that's skateboarding.
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If you teach the kids at a young age they're equal
they can take it with them.
And they can like, give it to the next generation.
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(wheels scraping)
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Whoa! (wheels scrape)
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- So my name is Matias.
It's kind of hard to introduce myself here,
because no one can spell Matias or pronounce it.
So I go with Matze, which is like easier for them.
I'm 28, I'm from Hamburg, Germany.
I got here like four weeks ago.
(upbeat percussion and digital music)
(kids playing)
- Hey, my name is Frederick.
I'm 23 years old, and I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark.
(wheels scraping)
When I first told my parents that I was going
to Jordan, Amman, they was first a bit afraid,
because it's here in the Middle East,
and so close to countries where you have war,
like Syria and Iraq.
But actually now I've been here for so long,
and I find it very peaceful.
The people are so kind here in Amman.
And I already make a lot of good friends
with some of the locals.
It really turned my mind.
I thought it was gonna be different.
It turned out really positive, I think.
And now I've been here for one month,
and I think it's been the most exciting
experience of my life.
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- The reason we are here is because Mohammad
is like the founder of Philadelphia Skateboards.
And also, the reason why we have this park here,
because he is like the go-to guy here.
He's the godfather of
Amman skateboarding, or let's even say Middle East.
Maybe that's a little much,
but he has like connection to all
over Middle East for skateboarding.
He's basically responsible that skateboarding
is still a thing in Jordan or in Amman.
And he tries to maintain the session like big time.
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- I mean for me the reason I wanted to build
the 7 Hills Skate Park was more of a selfish reason.
'Cause I always wanted a skate board for myself to skate.
But at the same time I didn't want it to be
for me only, I could have built a private skate park
and charged money for people to come in.
But I wanted to share this.
If you're happy in a group of sad people,
what is that worth?
What is that joy worth?
So I think joy is magnified and multiplied.
So it's something that I always wanted
is to share this joy of skateboarding
and kind of like push it forward.
I was given a gift of skateboarding.
This is something that I wanted to pass on to other kids.
I built 7 Hills because I wanted to share
the joy of skateboarding.
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You really see it, if you give kids
love, love is what you're gonna get back.
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With any partners that we work with
we always make sure to tell them that
we want 50% boys, 50% girls.
And I think that's important because what we're trying
to do is break the gender barrier.
I think it's important that the boys interact
with the girls, and the girls interact with the boys
in a public space.
They both feel respected because a lot of the girls
they have a lot of problems being in public spaces
most of the time.
Because there's a lot of harassment.
But it's very important to us that the boys
learn to respect the girls in a public space.
And the girls understand that they have the right
to the space like the boys do.
And that they are both equally responsible
for the space, as well.
- My name is Rand from Jordan, I'm 16.
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(Rand speaking foreign language)
- They never interacted with women.
And so that was something that's super foreign for them.
It's like, whoa, whoa women, I don't understand girls.
It's like something that's alien for them.
It's like, oh so we have maybe I want to cat call them,
be rough or like.
But then you see it like the kids start
to interact with the girls, and they understand
at the end of the day it's like,
oh they're just people like us, you know.
- [Narrator] Somalia continued to spiral out of control.
In particular, an offshoot of the failed ICU
began gaining power and committing terror acts country wide.
The group called Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility
for multiple bombings, particularly since 2012.
This Al-Qaeda align Jihadist group,
named after the Arabic word for youth,
has specifically targeted government institutions
and non-Muslims.
In short, Somalia has seen a massive increase
in terror groups involvement
since the start of its civil war.
Al-Shabaab represents only a small fraction
of the damage the country has undergone.
(children speaking in foreign language)
(Ramla speaking in foreign language)
- I can go on and on about the philosophy of skateboarding
and how it's,
how it effects your character, and how it builds
your character and how it teaches you,
you know, success is really made up of like
a bunch of small failures.
You fail once, you adjust your mindset
and the way you're doing a trick,
and then you're like, "Okay let me try it this way."
Then you try it, it doesn't work again,
and you're like, "Okay, okay, let me try it this way."
So you make small adjustments, small adjustments
until you get to a formula that works.
Even if you land it, even if you land a trick,
it doesn't mean you're gonna do it every try now.
It's still a constant struggle.
And so that teaches you about life, really.
Anything you can try is gonna be,
you're most likely to fail at first.
But that shouldn't stop you.
You look at your failures, you learn from it.
I think failure is the best teacher.
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(Abdul-Hakiem speaks in foreign language)
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(Abdul-Hakiem speaks foreign language)
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(Hakiem speaks foreign language)
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(Hakiem speaks foreign language)
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(Hakiem speaks foreign language)
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(Hakiem speaks foreign language)
- It wasn't until
maybe within the first year of me skating
that I got to go to a skate park.
And that's when I saw the possibilities.
That's literally when I saw people flying
out of swimming pools.
And that's when I devoted myself to it.
In the early days I didn't have
a hero, or an inspiration.
But as I got into it, I found them,
based on my style of skating, and based on my interests.
I mean for sure it was Eddie Elguera
who I thought was the most innovative skater at the time.
The guy who was concentrating on doing tricks.
And, that's what I wanted to do was
I wanted to do tricks.
Well skating felt very free to me.
Skating felt like this blank canvas
and something I could on my own terms in my own style.
So immediately I was drawn to it because of that.
But also because of the daredevil aspects of it.
And so any time I reached any sort of milestone
on my skating was a big deal.
And I'm talking about very simple things.
I remember the first time I was able
to ride up a curb by myself.
Before the Ollie was created,
I'm talking about like just literally
manually rocking the board up and forcing it up.
And that was a big deal to me,
'cause that changed the landscape all of a sudden.
I could leave the street and go on the sidewalk
without getting off my board.
And then fast forward to when I found pool skating,
I very much remember the first time I ever got
to the top of the pool,
and got my board out above the pool.
And I did a real aerial.
Those things, they're really gratifying.
Not just because they're a milestone,
but because a lot of times it's the goal
you put on yourself.
So it's all about your self motivation,
your self confidence.
And building that up, and maybe nothing else
provided that for you.
Nothing else provided that for me in my life.
That I felt like, oh I created this challenge
and I overcame it.
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Skating, it doesn't matter how far you get,
you can always do better.
And that's what I've loved about it,
you can continue to challenge yourself.
You're never going to master everything in skating.
Well the environment of the skate park,
first and foremost, is a place to hone your skills,
a place to develop your techniques.
But, I think more importantly and more deeply,
it's a place to find a community and to share ideas.
And, a home away from home.
I spent every waking hour at the skate park
when I wasn't in school, that was it.
I went straight from school to the park until it closed,
and then when my parents picked me up.
I found my tribe there.
I found a bunch of people that thought along the same lines,
had very creative aspects,
were willing to push the boundaries of all kinds of,
including skating, but also in terms of rules,
in terms of music, in terms of fashion.
It was all like this very creative
group of misfits, that's my best explanation of it.
The common bond was skating.
But beyond skating there was a deeper connection,
because I identify with these people,
that we love something completely different.
And we made that our identity.
And we embraced it, and we support each other.
- You have music that's related to the culture.
You have the street culture.
I remember when like in culture street
where skateboarding happened in Jordan.
I remember there was a time when there would be
break dancers, there'd be the beat boxers there,
the graffiti guys and the hip hop guys.
That was also the perfect name for a street culture.
Graffiti artists are like skateboarders in a way.
You people see a wall, they see a canvas.
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- My name is Ghaith Abudayyen, I'm 16 years old,
I'm from Jordan.
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(wheels scraping)
I used to watch movies and see skaters
and how they are having fun.
Then I met my friend Akem he's my classmate.
So he told me about 7 Hills.
And I just went there and start skating.
It's a really cool place.
It's full of positive energy,
and yeah it's my favorite place on Planet Earth,
I really like it.
There are a lot of street artists,
and graffiti artists in Jordan.
I want the art here in Jordan to get better.
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I'm trying to like make my own style.
Now I'm practicing to get my own style.
And I do like graffiti lettering.
So trying to make a style for me.
I really like Wize One.
He teach me a lot of things.
And he really helped me when I started.
He'd been doing graffiti for a long time.
He's the godfather of street art.
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- Hello, my name is Wesam Shadid, AKA Wize One.
I'm a full time graffiti artist.
And I've been doing that for almost 15 years.
(light beat and synthesizer music)
Whenever you go to skate park
you'll find that it's full of graffiti,
it's like a sports for graffiti.
So skate park it means always graffiti.
Skating is related to graffiti in somehow.
You find the graffiti designs and art on the skateboard.
You find graffiti artists painting and drawing skateboards,
and people skating, and jumping and all that stuff.
And fashion, and everything, they're all related.
Full circle together.
I draw women, I love to draw women.
It's something really powerful to draw.
It represents
community, society, everything in our life.
Woman is, it's all about everything.
(upbeat music)
You can use art as a tool,
and sometimes you express yourself.
Art is a sender and a receiver.
You send a message through art.
And people they receive that message through your art
when they pass by your artwork in the cities.
So it could be a powerful tool to express yourself,
and send messages to people, good messages.
(woman singing in foreign language)
(upbeat music)
- My name is Joanna Arida, and I am from Jordan.
Personally for me, I've never really felt the difference
between a male artist doing mural,
and me as a female artist doing mine.
I just felt that we're just two artists painting.
If you go to a village here that is very traditional,
they go back to, I think if you go to anywhere
that is very like goes back to its roots and tradition,
they're very focused on this idea of
I am man, and you are a woman.
And just when they say that you are a woman,
it feels like, did you just insult me?
I mean what do you mean?
It goes with the same thing, all of a sudden,
one day people they did this whole campaign thing,
on when you tell someone that you run like a girl.
Why is that an insult?
Why is running like a girl depicted
as something that's weak?
So I think that, you know it's something that
is embedded in most people's minds,
and it's just really sad that we just associate
women with something that's being weak,
while we're really not.
I was born in a family that believed in hard work.
And that believes that if you're passionate enough
to do something, nothing should stop you.
If you believe in this you go out and you get it.
I don't really think of it as oh look I'm a woman,
I'm doing this.
I just think about it as me, Joanna,
doing something and I have this mural that I need to finish.
And I want to prove it to myself.
I want to do this mural and I want to take
a step back and look at it and be like,
hey I did that, that's pretty cool, you know.
So it's kind of like me as me, not me as the female part.
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(people chattering)
- [Reporter] Investigators in Yemen
are looking into how an airstrike
in the northern part of the country
ended up hitting a school bus,
killing 40 children, and injuring 56 more.
It's one of the most horrifying episodes
in a grueling war that's already taken
more than 10,000 civilian lives.
(baby crying)
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(Sadiya speaking in foreign language)
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(Sadiya speaking foreign language)
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- Think about it, when you're living,
when you're sitting at your home and just chilling.
And then someday, just like that, you lose it all.
And then you try to escape to another country,
and all they do is just shut their doors and they say no.
What would that do to that person who lost everything?
When there's a child, a child who has lost his home,
and at that young age he loses his home,
he loses his own country.
And then he comes to this stranger country,
and it takes them in.
And then at some point someone says, "Hey let's go skate.
"Hey, let's go do art."
I think that that's just something that really
touches you spiritually and is like hey,
you can be okay.
Maybe it's not at home, maybe you will be at home,
maybe this is home.
But, at some point you are gonna look up
and be like, it's okay.
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- I can't say that I have
a deep knowledge of the refugee crisis.
But I can tell that it is something that is
bigger than ever, more overwhelming that ever.
And people are willing to sacrifice themselves,
and their families to escape some of the worst conditions.
And so, it's obvious that people need help.
And they need somewhere to go.
Thankfully there are a few countries that
will provide them some sort of assistance.
I love that skateboarding has been included
in that process.
I think the easy way out for,
especially people from America who have no experience
with the kind of strife that others are having to endure,
based on basically where they were born.
Is that, oh it's just you know, they're a problem,
and it's not my problem.
But to have true empathy for the people
who are going through these hardships is to at least
recognize that they're just people that were born
into a bad situation.
And they're trying to escape for the betterment
of their family, or for their kids.
Or for themselves.
They're not trying to come and take your job.
They're trying to come survive.
And that, I think that's the shift that needs to happen
in terms of the collective mindset of people who
just want to ignore those harder facts.
That's the stuff that is
is the most difficult to make people understand.
Is that it's just humanity,
and it's just people trying to live.
They're not trying to infiltrate
with their religious beliefs.
They're just trying to survive.
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- At the end of the day really we're all the same,
we're just people, you know.
We want the same things.
We want love, we want family, we want
to be accepted, we want to be understood.
It's a very basic human needs that we all want.
And it's similar everywhere, really.
I don't like labels, I think if you label something
you limit it, you build walls around it.
And then that's set, this is what you are.
This urge like have to define things,
because it's scary if things are not defined.
So this is why I don't like to define things,
or use words like refugee.
'Cause that's also like that takes the power
from people when you call them refugees.
It's like you're powerless, you're helpless.
You're here, you don't have a home.
You're here temporarily.
You're supposed to go back home.
But if you say, you're people,
then that's a greater understanding of people.
I don't see the kids that come to the park as refugees,
I see them as just kids who are going
through rough circumstances.
And it's our duty as a community to embrace them.
People reflect on themselves being called refugees.
They fall into this trap of like,
oh yeah I'm a refugee and powerless.
I'm not in like home.
And that goes back to the idea of home, also, what is home?
We're all people who are living on this planet.
And this planet is home.
And the idea of fucking borders, man.
That's like a man made concept.
I'm trying to think of the first person who
put borders around a piece of land and said,
"This is my land, I own this land."
Who was the first person to do that?
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A group of people coming together to form this jungle
that we live in, and then we create the systems.
And I don't understand where the hate comes from.
Why do we hate
refugees, or why do we hate people of certain color?
I don't understand it.
I don't understand how that works.
Why do you think you are better than them,
because you were going through,
you were given, that's your circumstances
that they haven't been given.
You were dealt a better hand.
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- [Reporter] Fighting in South Sudan
has spread outside the capital Juba,
after a reported coup attempt of the weekend.
President Salva Kiir has accused his former vice president
of orchestrating the fighting.
- [Salva] I promise you today that justice will prevail.
- [Reporter] A report released by the UN in early May,
is the first in depth examination
of the violent, ethnic civil strife
that is tearing apart South Sudan.
It states that thousands have been killed,
and more than one million South Sudanese
have been displaced.
6.9 million people in the region are facing
the threat of mass starvation.
- They were living at home, they were leading happy lives,
and then wars happened.
They find themselves in areas that are like,
in place where they, I even move or I die.
That was like the only option for them,
we need to think about it that way.
If you were in their position what would you do?
Will you stay in your place,
or will you try to save your family and your kids,
and try to lead a better life?
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So the Sudanese community unfortunately,
they're not considered as refugees in Jordan.
And I say unfortunately, because this means that they
don't get any support from international NGOs,
like the UN or the UNHCR, they don't get
any support from them.
'Cause they don't have refugee status.
But this also means that
they don't have refugee status
and they don't have citizenship status.
They're kind of stuck in this in between of
we're not in Sudan,
we're not refugees here, so we don't get any support.
We're not citizens here, so we don't get to work,
or go to schools.
The story is that there was a big number
of Sudanese refugees in Jordan.
And I think in 2014 they were protesting
the way they were being treated by the government.
- The deportations followed months of protests
by some of the 3,500 Sudanese refugees in Jordan.
They set up a protest camp outside the UN Refugee Agency,
to demand more aid, and resettlement to other countries.
The refugees say Jordanian security forces
put them on buses, telling them they were
going to be resettled.
Instead, they took them to the airport.
- And os the government was like, okay you don't like it,
go back to Sudan.
And this is what they did, actually.
They got all the Sudanese refugees together,
shipped them up and then, you know,
got them to the airport and shipped them back to Sudan.
Which is very shameful for me.
It's a very shameful act, really.
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- Resistance.
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- I found out that we're really racist people.
Which is quite a shock for me, because it's so embedded
in our culture, it's like interwoven with like
the way we think that we don't even notice it,
how racist we are.
I remember,
when the Sudanis started coming to the park,
like a lot of kids didn't want to deal with the Sudanis,
because oh they're black, I don't want to be with them.
But like you can't take on kids for something like that.
It's so embedded, this is the way they were being taught.
This is the way they were being raised.
And like I said it's just, it's not hate,
it's just ignorance.
We don't understand you, so we're afraid.
Seeing the way that perspective flipped,
is really something I'm proud of.
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We have at times
in their group to be community leaders.
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I was having a discussion with a friend of mine
the other day.
I think, I thought it was important to empower
the people and she said, 'You know if you're empowering
"the people it means that you're assuming
"that they have no power.
"When in reality they have all the power."
And I thought that's interesting,
that's an interesting perspective on things.
And it's reminding the kids of the power they have,
and giving them,
you know it doesn't matter where you come from.
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- My name is Waa, I'm from Sudan.
I want to stay in Jordan and go to USA
and play skateboard over there.
'Cause this skateboard I like so much
from my heart. (laughs)
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- [Narrator] Syria's war is a mess.
The first shots in the war were fired in March 2011
by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad
against peaceful Arab Spring demonstrators.
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In July, the protestors started shooting back.
And some Syrian troops even defect from
the Syrian Army to join them.
They call themselves the Free Syrian Army,
and the uprising becomes a civil war.
- It is in the national security interest
of the United States to respond to the Assad regime's
use of chemical weapons to a targeted military strike.
- [Reporter] Russia proposed on Monday
that Syria surrender control over its chemical weapons
to the international community for its eventual
dismantling to avoid a US military strike.
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- The Gaza Camp is in Jerash,
which is a city north of Amman.
And they come to the park every Saturday.
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These refugee camps started as a temporary solution,
and turned into permanent cities.
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- [Reporter] At least 25 Palestinians have died
and hundreds have been doing protests on the border
between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
- [Reporter] Six Palestinians have been killed
by Israeli forces.
It happened during protests along Gaza's border.
- [Reporter] 14,000 Palestinians gathered on
the Gaza Strip's border with Israel,
burning tires and throwing rocks,
fire bombs and grenades at soldiers.
That's according to the Israeli military.
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- [Reporter] (drowned out by yelling) Has just been shot.)
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- Donald J. Trump is calling for a total
and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
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They want to change your religion, I don't think so,
I don't think so.
(crowds murmuring) I don't think so,
not gonna happen.
It's gonna get worse and worse.
You're gonna have more World Trade Centers,
it's gonna get worse and worse, folks.
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- So the word Muslim in Islam,
the word Muslim in the Arabic language,
the actual word it means that you submit yourself to God.
And by submitting yourself to God,
you agree to be peaceful to all his creation, and be,
to be one, actually.
In Islam it says that the reason we are here
is to build the earth and to make it
a habitable place for creation.
For animals, for plants, like...
I'm a very spiritual person, I'm a Muslim as well.
I think Islam is a very interesting religion.
And the Quran is a really interesting book.
And of course you have like crazy people.
There's crazy Americans, there's crazy Chinese,
there's crazy Arabs, there's crazy Russians.
There's all sorts of crazy everywhere.
But focusing on that 1% that is crazy,
this is where the problem is being created.
This is where generalization is being made.
If you only think of people, of Arabs, for example,
or Muslims, and the only images that come to mind
is protest and
that image is in the media,
of course this is what you're gonna think about.
I do blame the Americans for their,
it's not hate, it is ignorance that developed into hate.
But at the end of the day it's really ignorance.
You don't know something and then you assume that
what you see is the truth, then you have a problem.
If you don't research, if you don't take the time
to get to know the different side of things,
then you have a problem.
And I think this is the problem with Americans is that,
they have created this lifestyle where you go to work
and you chase the money,
and you chase the certain lifestyle the American dream,
and then you don't have time for anything else.
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I think that skateboarding is creating this understanding
of humanity really, I don't know, maybe.
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♪ Shway, shway, shway ♪
♪ Got no shway ♪
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♪ Got no shway ♪
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♪ We're legitimate hypocrites under hippocratic oath ♪
♪ Using melodies, medicines up in the epiphanies, yo ♪
♪ Crack the shell back whoever converse with the ghost ♪
♪ There's no telling whatever it is ♪
♪ But I know what I know ♪
♪ That every so-so intelligence sows ♪
♪ The seed that influences our navigation ♪
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♪ If I leave you in bruises ♪
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♪ When I look in the mirror all I see is your face ♪
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