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Speaker 1: From Fuduro Media. It's Latino USA.

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Speaker 2: I'm Maria Nohosa today for our How I Made It

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Speaker 2: series Fluksus Photo a group of Ecuadorian photojournalists telling their

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Speaker 2: own stories. In October twenty nineteen, Ecuador went through a violent,

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Speaker 2: large scale uprising. Demonstrations paralyzed the country for twelve days

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Speaker 2: straight after former President Lenin Moreno cut decades old fuel

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Speaker 2: subsidies and implemented tax and labor reforms. Indigenous communities were

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Speaker 2: hit especially hard by the changes. Tens of thousands marched

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Speaker 2: from the Andes Mountains into Ecuador's capital city, Quito to

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Speaker 2: protest the Moreno administration. The tamos aki parat defender los

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Speaker 2: retios klikitimamente temos como peblos indijnaz e equadors protesters declared

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Speaker 2: they were defending their rights as indigenous people from Ecuador.

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Speaker 2: For decades, indigenous communities have demanded the government's support to

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Speaker 2: protect their land from exploitation by domestic oil companies and

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Speaker 2: to be included in national political dialogues. During the twenty

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Speaker 2: nineteen demonstrations, Guito's streets were covered in debris and smoke,

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Speaker 2: government buildings burned, police through molotov cocktails and tear gasset

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Speaker 2: protesters who lobbed them right back. Amid the turmoil, one

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Speaker 2: photograph from the ground became instantly iconic. In it, a

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Speaker 2: woman from the Andes, dressed in a traditional garment and

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Speaker 2: a face mask, stands in the middle of a street

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Speaker 2: with her back towards a cloud of smoke. People stand

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Speaker 2: behind her wearing face masks to prevent breathing in the gases.

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Speaker 2: That photo was taken by a member of a collective

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Speaker 2: of Ecuadorian photojournalists called Fluksus Photo. Founded in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 2: The collective aims to capture ecuadorians struggles to have their

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Speaker 2: human rights guaranteed and respected. During the demonstrations, Fluksu's photographers

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Speaker 2: were right in the middle of the action, capturing critical

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Speaker 2: moments to show indigenous people's side of history. The photo

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Speaker 2: they took caused commotion all over Ecuador. Indigenous communities today

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Speaker 2: still use the image as an insignia, and some young

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Speaker 2: people even got it tattooed on their bodies. In this

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Speaker 2: segment of our How I Made It series, we'll hear

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Speaker 2: from the founder of the Fluksus Photo collect active Johis

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Speaker 2: al Arkon and Fluxus photographer and Amara Bitron. But first

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Speaker 2: we'll hear from Tabids, the Fluxus photographer who took that

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Speaker 2: iConnect twenty nineteen protest photo.

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Speaker 3: For days, I had noticed that the ones making all

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Speaker 3: of the demonstrations possible work woman. They were the ones

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Speaker 3: who had organized the communal march into Quito. They were

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Speaker 3: even preparing food and facing water for the other woman

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Speaker 3: and men who stood on the front LINESITOI so I

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Speaker 3: wanted to take a picture that reflected that. I wanted

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Speaker 3: to show woman behind the trenches. But while trying I

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Speaker 3: go to expose a Rubert ballet hit me on the leg.

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Speaker 3: So much violence I was retired from saying in everything

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Speaker 3: I saw an adenna woman in the middle of a.

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Speaker 5: Transposes yabasta it fuera lending Moreno.

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Speaker 3: When the Adinas joined the protest, it was in Onnison.

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Speaker 3: They all concurred that it was time to act, time

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Speaker 3: to fight battle that had been necessary to fight for

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Speaker 3: years and that is now very much part of a

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Speaker 3: for people to be heard in relation to a mother

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Speaker 3: that affected them the most, and it didn't work. The

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Speaker 6: The government has decided to abandon this policy measure and

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Speaker 6: instead form a commission and inclusive commission that takes into

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Speaker 3: And the irony is that indigenous people are more self

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Speaker 3: sufficient than the rest of us. We need the working

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Speaker 3: in agriculture, in farming to me more valuable than being

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Speaker 3: published by Bloomberg, the Washington Boss or the other international media.

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Speaker 3: Is having been asking by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationality

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Speaker 3: indigenous communities. I got into photojournalisms because of an experience

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Speaker 3: in the ceremonious hate to try to find myself, participate

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Speaker 3: like Awakoya and Ayauasca to cure myself from egos and fears.

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Speaker 3: There I understood that I was my cot to show

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Speaker 4: When I met David, I feel like he was my brother.

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Speaker 4: I met David during a worshop. After that we always

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Speaker 4: work together, and the idea of creating a collective started

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Speaker 4: with him. I worked in different collectives in Argentina and

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Speaker 4: Bolivia and Ratil. I loved how efficent and effective it was,

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Speaker 4: don't have a school of photojournalists or documentary photography. We

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Speaker 4: learned in the way doing it's difficult for young photographers

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Speaker 4: our own army photojournalists. We formed Fluxus on the streets

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Speaker 4: all the photography realities that we want to show everyone.

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Speaker 4: I identify as an and in a woman, and Fluxus

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Speaker 4: was formed with and in Cosmo vision that Fortifi is

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Speaker 4: from an encounter with each other and with people with photographs.

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Speaker 4: I even feel like inviting someone to join is like

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Speaker 4: falling in love. We see each other's work, then we

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Speaker 4: meet and if there is chemistry, we go out. Each

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Speaker 4: members were has run as to them. We have very

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Speaker 4: different visions and different way to work, but we are

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Speaker 4: all passionate about photographing to defend human rights, gender equality

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Speaker 4: and our collective vision of a more justituation Always of

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Speaker 4: working keep evolving constantly, but so the challenge that we

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Speaker 4: take on. In some occasions we have put our lives

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Speaker 4: on the line. I remember that during the first day

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Speaker 4: of the twenty nineteen on pricings, we were in the

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Speaker 4: middle of a mass of people and when the police

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Speaker 4: started running. I felt and I couldn't stand up. Suddenly

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Speaker 4: David pulled me up, grabbed my camera and put me

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Speaker 4: the gas cults. It's hard to see the things that

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Speaker 4: we see through days like those, and we support each

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Speaker 4: other because we all know what it is like. We

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Speaker 4: New York Times, the Washington Post routers. It's just a

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Speaker 4: confirmation that we are doing it right. We are sprending

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Speaker 4: the truth and it is all mainly about telling the

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Speaker 4: story of Equatorians. We have working down borders. We are

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Speaker 4: working with collectives all throughout Latin America. Most recently we

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Speaker 4: got a grunt for National Geographic with which we portrayed

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Speaker 4: how for FRO six million children were impacted by the

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Speaker 4: cancelation of in person classes.

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Speaker 1: Plast classes and totals and suspendedas in total form elector.

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Speaker 4: The result made it to the photo exhibition for the

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Speaker 4: It by Annie and Amara. Vitron was printed out in

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Speaker 5: I'm an Amria withdrawn. I'm one of the members of

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Speaker 5: Fluxus Photo collective. So we create a project to talk

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Speaker 5: about public private intercultural education during the lockdown in in Quito,

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Speaker 5: and we won the most important price for foreign journalists

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Speaker 5: in Ecuador. This prize is called hor Human pigam and

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Speaker 5: one for our photo story about this project that is

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Speaker 5: called education through WhatsApp. My photo is about Laura's Antian.

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Speaker 5: She is the principal of Yachias His school in Quito.

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Speaker 5: This is the school received indigenals children from all over

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Speaker 5: Ecuador and they focus on an intercultural way of teaching,

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Speaker 5: so they teach in Quichua, Spanish English. So in this photo,

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Speaker 5: Laura's Antian is teaching her students using her cell phone

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Speaker 5: connected with a selfistick. Laura is teaching her students about

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Speaker 5: medicinal plants that they have in the in this huge

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Speaker 1: It was it was a.

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Speaker 5: Really nice experience while Laura was teaching, walking through this

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Speaker 5: huge garden that looked like and chanted forest. I was

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Speaker 5: like walking really slow behind Laura because I don't want

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Speaker 5: my feet on these flowers and plants, and she told

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Speaker 5: almost destroyed some of hair plants. But it was so

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Speaker 5: incredible for me how she walked through this garden forest

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Speaker 5: and she stopped in each plant and told how important

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Speaker 5: is the plant for our lives, for the conservation or

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Speaker 5: education that in the pandemic everything was not loose, that

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Speaker 5: we can have faith and educationa de.

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Speaker 1: Oil so on. Those are the sims.

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Speaker 5: Because we developed this project in the mountains or in Quito,

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Speaker 5: we want to portray other educational spaces of this from

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Speaker 5: this country, the coast, the Alapacos, the jungle. You know,

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Speaker 5: that will be totally different, visually different. We really think

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Speaker 5: that it's important for us, for the community, for other countries.

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Speaker 5: Some of the Fluxus members are really young. They are

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Speaker 5: in the year twenties. I learned a lot from them. Karen,

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Speaker 5: she has hands that turn everything in golf. She is

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Speaker 5: in church of sending out pitches. From Bani, I've learned

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Speaker 5: to simplify and resolve from Andrees his artistic conception. From Johis,

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Speaker 5: I learned her editing is killed. From Koso, I learned

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Speaker 5: his vision of how to relate with other organizations. From David,

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Speaker 5: I learned to not always say everything has big things

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Speaker 2: That was Davids Yohi's alercon and an Amara Bron they're

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Speaker 2: members of the Fluxus Photo collective reporting an Ecuador through

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Speaker 2: their photographs. Fluxu's next move will be the Opener School

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