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00:02 Report by Felix Maringa
00:38 Joshua Okayo | Leader, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement
01:34 Sophie Njehia | Member, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement
02:42 Joshua Okayo | Leader, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement

Script:
00:02 
VO:
Joshua Okayo and his team are in hospital to visit young people injured during recent protests in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
He’s a lawyer and leader of a group known as the Revolutionary Gen Z Movement, which has over 3000 members across the country.
They hand out essentials, like soap and toothbrushes, and promise support.
Joshua Okayo knows how important this can be – he says he himself was abducted and tortured over the demos last year.
He believes being part of an organized group is the only way to get the political and social change that Kenya’s youth want, and to protect protesters.
00:37
SOT: Joshua Okayo – Leader, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement
We know if we organize we are going to be two steps ahead of the state, We cannot just be going to the streets people die others are maimed then we go back home and then plan another and we never care on the best way to reduce the deaths or even cancel the deaths completely but still ensure that the message is still conveyed. Organizing also helps us to be able to raise funds for some of these things we are doing.
1:08
They meet every Thursday evening in Nairobi’s Central Business district in a forum dubbed Bunge la Gen Z, which is Swahili for “Gen Z’s Parliament. 
Members come from various backgrounds and professions. They use the forum to speak about issues facing the country – police abuse and economic pain. 
They stream the event so more people can take part.
1:32
SOT: Sophie Njehia - Member, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement
Bunge la Gen Z was formed to offer Gen Z’s a platform where they could have conversations on issues that affect them conversations where we can agree to disagree and sort of come up with solutions in terms of issues that affect us. The plan is to ensure that we have a Bunge la Gen Z in every ward in Kenya while it’s difficult because you need financial resources to hit the ground and establish and mobilize so we started with Nairobi which is the easiest because in Nairobi people are Online. 
02:06
VO:
The protests have become increasingly violent over the past year. In the latest unrest, demonstrators and police clashed, leaving many dead and injured.
The group says being organized means they can help people who have been injured or offer legal support to those who have been arrested.
An outward display of their organization is this uniform. 
For them it’s not only a sign of their resistance but also a commitment to the constitution of Kenya which, they say, has been violated by the political class.
Joshua Okayo says getting organized is part of a long-term plan. 
02:40 
SOT: Joshua Okayo – Leader, The Revolutionary Gen Z movement
We could have achieved so much had we been intentional about organizing and just strategizing and being able to foretell what the state might do in case of anything...protests can be done even without leadership without structure without anything, but we are organizing to actually overhaul the system and we cannot overhaul the system and leave a blank, we do not leave a hollow space you have to actually occupy those positions.
03:12
VO:
Being decentralized has allowed the Gen Z protesters to challenge Kenya’s political establishment. Not everyone in this leaderless movement is happy with the emergence of people stepping up to lead them. But members of the RGM say that organization is the only way forward.
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