First installment in a series of films taken from a interview with mark konard owner of Global Importune, a non-profit dedicated to the reslease of political prisoners worldwide.
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Unknown
Hello. My name is Mark Conrad, and I’m the executive director of global.
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Unknown
It’s a nonprofit human rights organization originally based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But now I’m here in London, Ontario.
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Unknown
one of the most common questions that people ask me is, how did you get involved in human rights and what you’re doing here?
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Unknown
And I like to talk about basically my childhood and saying, first of all, I was born in 1955. Yes, I’m an old guy. I’m born in 1955, July 17th, actually in 1955, which is the exact day that Disneyland actually opened. So Disneyland and myself were both the same age. So I was born in 1955, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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Unknown
the thing about that is that I was never involved in the civil rights movement or the anti-war movement or things like that.
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Unknown
It was just a normal childhood. Quite frankly, I went to school and I was never involved in politics or anything while I was in Philadelphia during the 60s and 70s, which were really turbulent times, obviously, but for whatever reason, I was just being a normal person, and I think it was my first foray into politics and understanding what was happening around me,
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Unknown
the the Nixon administration, the Watergate scandal.
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Unknown
Now, to many people who don’t know about the Watergate scandal, who may not be from the United States, Richard Nixon, the president at that time, was involved in a scandal, whereas he was he and his administration were involved in a cover up, which where they had people breaking into the Democratic National Convention in 1972,
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Unknown
Richard Nixon was a Republican candidate at that time. He was he was president and he was ready for reelection.
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Unknown
eventually led to his political downfall, which was in 1975, I think, where he resigned and was left office. But my point is that up until that time, I was never really interested or involved in anything at that time about politics.
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Unknown
One of the things is I would see people demonstrating and protesting on television. I couldn’t figure out what I mean. What is it? How did they doing this? What was it all about?
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Unknown
so at that time, I think that was the my first inkling of actually things happening. And my first time actually volunteering for something was called the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, the Jerry Lewis Telethon at that time.
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Unknown
And I was the first time I’ve actually volunteered my time. And I think I was maybe 16, 17 years old at the time and volunteered to do something. And one of the things that happened as I was doing that was that I got to interact with people from different people, from different cultures. You see, I was from North Philadelphia, which is a black area and ghetto and Philadelphia.
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Unknown
Let me point out also, it’s a city of ethnic groups. So you have the Asian area of Philadelphia, you have a Jewish area. So it’s Philadelphia, you’d have the Italian area of Philadelphia and black area in Philadelphia. And especially during the 60s, they very rarely mixed. Now obviously it’s different now,
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Unknown
when I was 15, 16 and 17 years old, I worked in Wildwood, new Jersey, during the summer on the boardwalk at an auction house where they actually auctioned off articles. And one of the things they were doing there is encouraging people to come into the auction house and actually purchase materials there.
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Unknown
But I actually as a kid, I was also used to talking, and that’s also where I developed kind of a talking style or being feeling comfortable talking to people. So when I was 15, 16, no, 16, 17 and 18 years old, that’s when it was because I graduated Simon Gratz High School in 1973. So that’s also where I developed a whole feeling comfortable actually talking with people.
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Unknown
so 1976, as I said, so I began working in volunteering for a number of different organizations at that time of getting involved in demonstrations and just as a participant sign holder
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Unknown
see, 1979.
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Unknown
during this time, the the war that was in Northern Ireland was still going on at that time between the Catholics and Protestants. And I think one of my experiences in Wildwood, new Jersey, when I was a kid, when I was of 15, 16 or 17, I got an opportunity to meet the Irish girls who had come over from Ireland to work in Wildwood during the war, would new Jersey during the summer.
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Unknown
So they began talking about their experiences in in Northern Ireland, what was happening at that time. And so I found that really interesting. But this is my first foray into meeting someone from an international standpoint and finding out there’s a much wider world than the North Philadelphia ghetto that I was in. So I met and talk to them, and I was actually corresponding them once they went back to Northern Ireland.
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Unknown
The reason I mentioned that is that I was working in
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Unknown
a Wanamaker’s department store in 1978, I think 79, and I decided, for whatever reason, that I was going to take some time off. And so I actually went to northern to England and I went to visit them in Northern Ireland. So it was my first time I actually been out of the country.
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Unknown
and I hitchhiked up through Scotland and then into Northern Ireland at that time, and had a chance to meet with and talk to people in Northern Ireland and find out and talk about which was called the Troubles at that time. So I had the opportunity to talk to them and learn about what was happening from both sides of the experience that I had in Northern
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Unknown
And so I actually worked for years for about two and a half years in the, the unemployment office, the Office of Employment, actually for the state of Pennsylvania at that time. And this is doing the Reagan administration, when people began losing their jobs.
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Unknown
So it was a very interesting job in the sense that I got to meet people who were coming in collecting unemployment. And I must say that I was really good at that, actually. I’m talking to people and kind of making them feel comfortable, because it was very stressful. When one person loses their job and they’re standing in a line and you’re talking about people who had been for many of them, who had been working at the job for years, I mean, literally 20 or 30 years or so.
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Unknown
And then all of a sudden they get kicked out. This is what was happening during the 1980s or so, where they were just cast aside for younger people. So there were a lot of people who were traumatized. I’ve got really good at actually talking to people and listening to people as well. While their unemployment, while they were on the unemployment line coming on at that time was a weekly basis where they would actually come and actually sign a form, and then they would actually have to prove that they would have been doing an active job search.
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Unknown
And so I would kind of interview them for that. So
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