Podcast appearances and mentions of alan kurdi

Das Berlin der Zukunft ist eine Insel, umgeben von einer hohen Mauer und nichts als dem Meer. So hat es sich die Schriftstellerin Anne Reinecke ausgedacht. In ihrem zweiten Roman "Hinter der Mauer der Ozean" ist unsere Gegenwart nur noch "die Alte Zeit". Die Natur hat sich die Stadt zurückgeholt. Nur noch fünf Menschen leben hier. Zum Beispiel in einem Hangar auf dem ehemaligen Flughafen Tempelhof. Heute sind die früheren Start- und Landebahnen eine große Freifläche mitten in der Stadt. In ihrem Roman lässt Anne Reinecke hier Büffel grasen. Im echten Leben kommt die Schriftstellerin oft aufs Tempelhofer Feld, um nachzudenken und zu schreiben. Beim Spaziergang mit Nadine erzählt sie, warum sie eine Dystopie geschrieben hat, warum das Bild des ertrunkenen Flüchtlingsjungen Alan Kurdi im Text auftaucht, und dass das Tempelhofer Feld ihr einen ganz besonderen Moment im Leben geschenkt hat. Die Autorin: Anne Reinecke wurde 1978 in Meißen geboren, fünf Jahre vor dem Mauerfall reisten ihre Eltern mit ihr in den Westen aus. Sie ist Kunsthistorikerin und hat viele Jahre als Stadtführerin in Berlin, Potsdam und in der Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen gearbeitet. 2018 erschien ihr erster Roman "Leinsee" über eine Liebe im Künstlermilieu. Das Buch: Anne Reinecke: "Hinter den Mauern der Ozean", Diogenes, 240 Seiten. Buchtipps: Katharina Peter: "Erzählung vom Schweigen", Matthes & Seitz, 244 Seiten. Bov Bjerg: "Der Vorweiner", Claassen, 240 Seiten. Bernhard Kegel: "Gras", Dörlemann, 384 Seiten.

Bureau Buitenland maakt op NPO Radio 1 twee weken lang ruimte voor de Olympische Spelen. Daarom brengen wij hier, in de podcast, onze serie 'Waar is Sarah?' nog een keer ten gehore. Rob Timmerman vaart de helft van het jaar op een reddingsschip op de Middellandse Zee, op zoek naar mensen in verdrinkingsnood. Met name één drenkeling houdt hem nog dagelijks bezig. De pasgeboren baby Sarah, die hij in 2016 uit een rubberboot redde. ‘Wat is er van haar geworden?', vraagt Rob zich af. Radiomaker Laura Stek vraagt zich op haar beurt af: ‘Waarom wil Rob zo graag op zoek naar het inmiddels zeven jaar oude meisje?'.  Laura ontmoet Rob Timmerman in zijn huis in Houten, waar hij aan het inpakken is voor een nieuwe missie op zee. Hij beschrijft hoe hij zeven jaar geleden kortsluiting in zijn hoofd kreeg. Na een dag werken als programmamaker, keek hij s' avonds thuis met zijn kinderen naar het jeugdjournaal en zag hij de beelden van het verdronken Syrische jongetje Alan Kurdi. Hij besloot zijn baan op te zeggen en vertrok naar de Griekse eilanden als vrijwilliger. Niet veel later zat hij aan boord van zijn eerste reddingsmissie op zee. Rob vertelt hoe hij tijdens die eerste missie vanuit een zinkende rubberboot een klein pakketje kreeg aangereikt. Het pakketje bleek een pasgeboren baby, genaamd Sarah, die op hem een onuitwisbare indruk maakte.

“Civil War,” Alex Garland's divisive new action flick, borrows iconography—and actual footage—from the America of today as set dressing for a hypothetical, fractured future. Though we know that the President is in his third term, and that Texas and California have formed an unlikely alliance against him, very little is said about the politics that brought us to this point. Garland's true interest lies not with the cause of the carnage but with the journalists compelled to document it. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz debate whether the film glamorizes violence, or whether it's an indictment of the way audiences have become inured to it through repeated exposure. The hosts consider Susan Sontag's “On Photography,” which assesses the impact of the craft, and “War Is Beautiful,” a compendium that explores how photojournalists have historically aestheticized and glorified unthinkable acts. From the video of George Floyd's killing to photos of Alan Kurdi, the young Syrian refugee found lying dead on a Turkish beach, images of atrocities have galvanized movements and commanded international attention. But what does it mean to bear witness in the age of social media, with daily, appalling updates from conflict zones at our fingertips? “I think all of us are struggling with what to make of this complete overabundance,” Schwartz says. “On the other hand, we're certainly aware of horror. It's impossible to ignore.”Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Civil War” (2024)“Ex Machina” (2014)“Natural Born Killers” (1994)“The Doom Generation” (1995)“War Is Beautiful,” by David Shields“On Photography,” by Susan Sontag“Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” (2017)New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

Laura ontmoet Rob Timmerman in zijn huis in Houten, waar hij aan het inpakken is voor een nieuwe missie op zee. Hij beschrijft hoe hij zeven jaar geleden kortsluiting in zijn hoofd kreeg. Na een dag werken als programmamaker, keek hij s' avonds thuis met zijn kinderen naar het jeugdjournaal en zag hij de beelden van het verdronken Syrische jongetje Alan Kurdi. Hij besloot zijn baan op te zeggen en vertrok naar de Griekse eilanden als vrijwilliger. Niet veel later zat hij aan boord van zijn eerste reddingsmissie op zee. Rob vertelt hoe hij tijdens die eerste missie vanuit een zinkende rubberboot een klein pakketje kreeg aangereikt. Het pakketje bleek een pasgeboren baby, genaamd Sarah, die op hem een onuitwisbare indruk maakte. Rob maakte na de redding een foto van haar, vredig slapend in een boodschappenkrat. Het beeld staat in zijn geheugen gegrift. Hoe zou het met haar gaan? Rob wil naar haar op zoek om te weten wat er van haar terecht gekomen is. Laura vraagt zich op haar beurt af: waarom wil Rob dat zo graag weten? 

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Moore StThe threat of demolition to parts of the Moore St Terrace - that played a central role in the Easter Rising - has increased significantly. Last month the Executive of Dublin City Council rejected a motion by Councillors that Number 18 Moore St should be designated a Protected Structure. The Councillors had previously passed a motion in support of this.Coffin ShipsEight years ago the death of two year old Alan Kurdi brought a focus on the refugee tragedy that has turned the Mediterranean into a sea of death for thousands. The photograph of the child lying face down on a Turkish beach as the water washed over him was a distressing and evocative image.Last week at least 78 refugees are known to have drowned when the packed trawler they were on capsized. Survivors have said that as many as 500 more, including possibly 100 children who were in the hold of the trawler, are thought to have gone down with the ship when it sank off the southern coast of GreeceThe Pen Behind The Wire.  Thousands of republicans were imprisoned during the conflict. They created a commendable body of prison literature, in keeping with prison writings from other phases in the freedom struggle. Former POWs, as well as writing their memoirs, have written short stories, novels, plays and screenplays and, of course, poetry. The writings of Bobby Sands, for example, have never been out of print over the past forty-two years and have been translated into many languages. 

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/photography

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production of images that were read with epistemic authority. But the advent of modernity has at once shaken this certainty and reinforced it. No sooner than we reckoned with the singular history painting and illustrated magazines, we have landed in a mass-media world where any possible image can and does exist. And the more we are surrounded by images, the greater claims they make. Photographs are not only routinely used to convey news, they are used to establish what is and isn't true. The crime scene photograph is now as likely to be used in a court of law as in a newspaper infographic explainer. The artifact is at once the evidentiary carrier of truth and a visualisation used to confirm it. It creates meaning and it argues for it Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics (Routledge, 2022) bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 Interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations Interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Pierre d'Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

Visual Culture and the Forensic bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects. Angela Strassheim's Evidence Melanie Pullen's Crime Scenes, Hugo's Camera The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei's restaging of the scene Kathryn Smith's Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles' Shroeder, 1949-2012 Luc Delahaye Horace Vernet Trevor Paglen's Autonomy Cube Laura Poitras' Citizenfour Julian Charrière's Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013 Simon Norkfolk's When I am Laid in Earth Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries, 2003 My interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture Josef Mengele's bones used in forensic identification Forensic Architecture‘s investigations My interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus. David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics David Houston Jones 9780367420932 ************* Find many more interviews, projects, and my writing at https://petitpoi.net/ You can sign up for my newsletter at https://petitpoi.net/newsletter/ Support my work: https://petitpoi.net/support/

O resumo das principais notícias de 2015, pela voz de Rui Gustavo, jornalista do Expresso. O texto é de Rui Tentúgal, a edição do áudio pertence a João Martins e a sonoplastia a João Luís Amorim. A coordenação é de Mónica Balsemão e Joana Beleza. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IN THIS episode we speak with Bethany Rielly, the home affairs reporter at the Morning Star newspaper, about the scandal surrounding the Manston migrant centre in Britain.  Manston is a former military base in Kent, which opened as a processing centre earlier this year for those who arrived into the country by crossing the Channel.  Bethany tells us how people are being detained in awful conditions at the overcrowded camp for weeks, when they are only supposed to be held there for 24 hours, and about the outbreak of Victorian-era diseases inside there.  We discuss how the recent far-right terrorist attack on a migrant processing centre in Dover made things worse for those detained at Manston, and how the British Home Secretary reacted to it with far-right rhetoric and conspiracy theories.  She also tells us about the protests against the conditions inside Manston and why the union that represents border guards is joining legal action against the government over it.  ---Get in touch--- @FleetCivil info@civilfleet.com Support:  ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---Show Notes--- You can follow Bethany Rielly on Twiiter via @bethrielly And you can find all of her stories for the Morning Star newspaper here: bit.ly/3Gaqwm9 You can find the Morning Star's website here: morningstaronline.co.uk Or follow it on Twitter here: twitter.com/M_Star_Online For anyone not familiar with British Politics, "the Tories" is the nickname of the ruling Conservative Party.  The UK Home Office is similar to the Department of Homeland Security in the US or the Ministry of the Interior and for Community in Germany.  The Home Secretary is currently Suella Braverman. Before her, it was Priti Patel. Both have been controversial figures and frequently demonised people seeking asylum in Britain. Here are some links to stories about Braverman's controversies:  • A general overview of her career in politics: bit.ly/3tt9d88 • A look at five controversial statements she has made: bit.ly/3UY3rat • And the time she made reference to "cultural Marxism," an antisemitic, Nazi-conspiracy theory: bit.ly/3TyteVq Confused by, or never heard about, cultural Marxism? Check this video out about it: bit.ly/3E5KUC7 Near the beginning of the episode, Bethany mentions the death of Alan Kurdi. He was a two-year-old Syrian-Kurdish boy who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. Photographs of his body lying face down on a beach were shown across the world. You can read more about him, here: bit.ly/3TxMEtB Stand Up to Racism, which Bethany mentions in the podcast, is an anti-fascist organisation. You can find more about them here: standuptoracism.org.uk. Want to know more about Lesbos? Then check out episode 28 with Alice and Hamid from Borderline Lesvos about their work on the island running a welcome centre for registered refugees For more on what was happening in Italy as this episode was being recorded, see the stories linked here: bit.ly/3GhUvZh  For more on the British government's Nationality and Borders Bill, and the Rwanda deportation scheme, check out episode 21 with Doctor's Without Borders (MSF) UK advocacy officer Sophie McCann Read my exclusive story on the rising numbers of deaths at Home Office asylum-seeker accommodations here: bit.ly/3O2qHlg Here's some links to Bethany's stories mentioned in this episode: • Refugee families detained in tents for weeks at ‘wretched' holding centre in Kent: bit.ly/3WWYLU3 • Migrant centre in Kent ‘catastrophically overcrowded', ministers warned: bit.ly/3EuheA9 • Protests break out inside ‘catastrophically overcrowded' asylum processing centre: bit.ly/3WUHXNz • Children cry for help while trapped ‘like animals in a cage' in overcrowded asylum centre: bit.ly/3X4jCVE • Harrowing conditions at Manston made me suicidal, former resident tells Morning Star: bit.ly/3tq9jNS • Hundreds demand end to ‘illegal and inhumane' Manston detention centre: bit.ly/3URoMST •  Dover petrol bomb attack on migrant centre not treated as terror incident until two days after: bit.ly/3X4jJAy The RAF stands for The Royal Air Force Ben compares the Mantson Camp to Moria, which was an overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. You can read more about that here: bit.ly/3O6kMvv Here's a link to Diane Taylor's story in the Guardian newspaper about the outbreak of MRSA at Manston: bit.ly/3Ob5YMk Here's the clip of BBC journalist talking about the UK 'defending itself on the frontline against migrants' that Ben mentions: bit.ly/3TACHf4  For more on The Channel, see here: bit.ly/3hBmads Check out Hope Not Hate here: hopenothate.org.uk For more on Action Against Detention and Deportations (AADD), see here: bit.ly/3UH6kNe

De wachtrijen bij transgenderklinieken worden almaar langer, en binnenkort komt een debat over een wijziging in de transgenderwet. Hoe kan het dan dat het publieke debat over dit onderwerp nog altijd ontbreekt? En: We spreken met prof. dr. Evert van derZweerde over Alexsandr Doegin en de denkbeelden van deze Kremlin-ideoloog. Ook: De iconische foto van het overleden Syrische jongetje Alan Kurdi op het Turkse strand werd gretig gedeeld op Instagram. Goed dat er meer aandacht komt voor oorlogsgeweld, zou je denken. Toch moet je daarmee uitkijken, vindt dr. Marloes Geboerse.  De Jortcast - de podcastspinoff van dr Kelder en Co - komt naar je toe! Presentator Jort Kelder gaat langs verschillende universiteiten door het land. Hij spreekt met wetenschappers over actualiteiten en de laatste inzichten in wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Wil jij daarbij zijn? Lees meer en meld je aan! (https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/binnenland/b9b1ca61-06a9-4fda-ba84-081e2b9a11cd/jortcast-grand-tour-praat-mee-en-meld-je-aan)

Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 11:23-33 Three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. 2 Corinthians 11:25-26 On September 2, 2015, news outlets around the world reported a horrible tragedy: the body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi had washed up on a beach near Bodrum, Turkey. Alan's family of Syrian refugees were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to a Greek island when their inflatable boat capsized. This tragedy testified to the refugees' desperation: they chose to risk the harsh sea in a raft to escape the threats of terrorists in their homeland. The accident also reminds us of the long history of shipwrecks in that area. The Mediterranean Sea was a key part of the apostle Paul's missionary travels. He tells of being shipwrecked three times and being stranded on the open sea. In Paul's work of spreading the good news of Jesus, he was also sometimes beaten, pelted with stones, and thrown into prison. That happened because people in some places were hostile to the message of Christ. In addition, there were false teachers who twisted the message of Jesus for their own profit, fame, and power. Sadly, false and corrupt leaders are still doing similar things today. As Paul (and Jesus) explained, challenges and dangers often go with sharing the good news because the devil is opposed to it. Satan doesn't want anyone to be saved. But in God's strength, the good news of Jesus keeps spreading. Will you help to share it too? Lord, guide us to share your good news everywhere, and help us to deal faithfully with challenges that arise. Amen.

Co mají společného žárovky na Pražském hradě a Rolling Stones? Jak spolu souvisí kolonialismus a kubismus? A jak jeden český umělec předpověděl Brexit? Umění a politika se mohou zdát jako velmi odlišné disciplíny, přesto jdou často ruku v ruce. Umělecká díla vstupují do vztahů mezi státy i občany, státy samotné v kulturních otázkách rozhodně nemlčí a v neposlední řadě i umělci se chtě nechtě stávají politickými aktéry. Dozvíte se, kolik beden potřebujete na jednu Sochu svobody, na jaké nákupy se vydalo prvorepublikové Československo do Francie i to, jakou historickou roli sehrál žižkovský bohém Franta Sauer. Herohero: https://herohero.co/zahumnypodcast Zdroje: Will Gompertz - What Are You Looking At? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310250/what-are-you-looking-at-by-will-gompertz/ Tomáš Lindner o Beninských bronzech: https://www.respekt.cz/tydenik/2021/26/kam-patri-tyto-sochy O Národní galerii: https://cs.isabart.org/institution/87 Sacklers a kupování si kultury: https://www.ft.com/content/1db7800f-78d5-474e-9b1e-744b1c1a837c?fbclid=IwAR2KNDmwhwkITmoCn_P77fwlD57yQxykvkv9lgcaKcWbBwaBklT7hEAEkE8 BLM epizoda: https://soundcloud.com/za-humny-podcast/22-zrusit-policii-jako-brno-aneb-o-rasismu-v-americe BLM sochy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_and_memorials_removed_during_the_George_Floyd_protests Index CEO projev: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/10/jodie-ginsberg-art-authoritarianism/ O koncertu Rolling Stones v Praze: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_v_Československu Rolling Stones 1998: https://www.idnes.cz/revue/spolecnost/zvlastni-parta-jmenem-rolling-stones.A_981110_165141_rozhovory_pez Guerilla Girls: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guerrilla-girls-do-women-have-to-be-naked-to-get-into-the-met-museum-p78793 Ai Weiwei jako Alan Kurdi: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/30/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-poses-as-a-drowned-syrian-refugee-toddler/?postshare=1221454227853591 Banksy: https://craftinga.com/robin-gunningham-banksy/ Zvuky: Bob Dylan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QElRIP-r9l4 Trojská válka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td1uPq9K--E Adam ruins Mounth Rushmore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QQBRIqZmw Colston in Bristol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEzVHq1OFQ She's so cold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4D_th0j2o V+W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi1TP7khjZk

The scene is familiar. A small child lies on a beach with his head towards the ocean and feet on dry sand. The image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Kurdish Syrian boy has become part of the global psyche and in his book, What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad begins with the same image. But in this version Amir is a few years older. And he gets up. Omar El Akkad is the author of American War which looked at the possible outcome of another civil war in the not too distant American future. This new book, What Strange Paradise, looks at the migrant crisis, and by crisis I mean migrants in a crisis that the west has created. Join us for a difficult, and spoiler-free, conversation about being unmoored and displaced, the losses that create us.

For a few days in late 2015, global outrage coursed at the photo of Alan Kurdi, the lifeless two-year old Syrian boy found washed ashore in Turkey after the boat carrying him and other migrants sank on its way to Greece. Omar El Akkad's new novel "What Strange Paradise" imagines an alternative narrative: a young migrant child survives a shipwreck and tries to forge his way to safety. El Akkad, who's also a journalist and former war correspondent, says he wrote the novel to counter what he calls "the privilege of instantaneous forgetting." We talk to him about the ongoing global refugee crisis and the human stories that inform his work.

In today's episode, we speak with Sea-Eye spokeswoman Sophie. She tells us about saving 409 people aboard the Sea Eye 4 in May, what happened when the ship encountered the Libyan Coastguard during a rescue operation, and how the Italian authorities misused safety laws to stop the ship going back to sea. Sophie also talks about why Sea Eye's previous ship was named after Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian-Kurdish boy whose body was photographed face down on a Turkish beach in September 2015 --- Show notes --- For more on The Civil Fleet visit civilfleet.com You can find a glossary of the terms used in this episode here: bit.ly/3kGhkt0 For more on Sea Eye visit: sea-eye.org/en/ Or follow them on Twitter: @seaeyeorg Read more about the Amnesty International report on the detention centres in Libya here: bit.ly/3s2JOkn Get in touch: @FleetCivil info@civilfleet.com Support: patreon.com/civilfleet

A photograph of the body of two-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey shocked the world in 2015, and motivated Canada into action to aid refugees fleeing the war in Syria. The war occurred after the country became swept up in the civil protest known as the Arab Spring, and caused millions of Syrians to flee the country, often by unsafe means. This Agenda discussion took place just one week after Kurdi's discovery. The best course of action to take became a topic of discussion in the federal election that year, leading to a promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode my guest is Hail the Ghost frontman and songwriter Kieran O'Reilly . In this episode Kieran talks about his love for music. He also tells about how a conversation in the pub one night lead to him becoming the new drummer for the band Doris, despite not knowing how to play the drums at the time. He also talks about his time in White McKenzie, and playing live at the Battle of the Bands and how uncomfortable it felt for him.Hwe also discusses his latest band Hail the Ghost,  and talks about how his acting career came about, and his time in the likes of Love/Hate and Vikings. He also discusses Hail the Ghosts 2020 single Wishbone, which was in tribute to 3 year old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who died in September 2015 and whose body was found washed up on a Turkish beach, and how the image of that boy affected him so much.Kieran also gives us some of his top albums and bands/artists of all time. 

Charlie Bird meets Trinity graduate and humanitarian Seán Binder who has travelled to Lesbos, Greece, to save and rescue people at sea. In 2018, at the age of 23, Seán took his seafaring, search and rescue skills, learned off the coast of Kerry, and began his own rescue operation for refugees in Lesvos, Greece. Seán was moved to do this by the death of the three-year old boy, Alan Kurdi, whose image, lying drowned on a beach near the Greek islands, shocked and outraged people all across the world. Little did Seán know the journey that his instinctive reaction would bring him on. “I wanted to find out why one young person, out of thousands, decided to say, ‘I’m not going to accept this, I’m not going to just sit around and do nothing’,” said Charlie Bird. “In Seán, you had a young man with the world at his feet, an intelligent, articulate Trinity College graduate, who could have chosen any path. “But Seán isn’t just anybody and listeners will learn about his unique background, why he was spurred to take action in the Mediterranean and, shockingly, how his humanitarian actions led to him serving over 100 days in a Greek jail. “Although he still faces the threat of charges under Greek law, I have no doubt that listeners will hear an outstanding young role model, and an incredibly courageous person, in Seán Binder.” Charlie’s interview with Seán isn’t all about the hardship of the trials that he has faced, however. Over the course of the podcast, the pair also discuss Seán’s upbringing near Castlegregory, west Kerry, his love of the ocean from an early age, and the story of a pilgrimage taken by boat to the ancient monastery of Iona, in order to fulfil the lifelong dream of an old friend and County Kerry priest. “People will identify with Seán Binder, with his values and his passion,” added Charlie Bird. “If there is a perfect role model for young Irish people - although there is no such thing - Seán Binder comes extremely close.” Seán Binder is also in the finals of the UK’s Big Idea Environmental Entrepreneurship Competition. “I've been interested in the environment since growing,” he says. “But because it’s been so difficult to move forward with my career, I thought I'd make myself a job. So, I am setting up an initiative that helps plant trees. Nice and simple.”

  Vi gjennomlever store teknologiske endringer og man skulle tro myndigheter og eliter ville forsøke å bevare den sosiale balansen. Men de gjør ikke det. I stedet river de opp alt tilvant og skaper en enorm usikkerhet om hvor vi er på vei. Det synes ikke å affisere dem at de destabiliserer samfunnet. Slike voldsomme endringer forbindes vanligvis med revolusjon. Dette er en revolusjon fra oven. Demokratenes vil revolusjonere USA og sier det er til forsvar for folket. Dette er samme språk som kommunister og nazister førte. Det var alltid noen annens skyld. De bare forsvarte seg. Venstresiden har kjørt frem en offerideologi gjennom mediene. Alan Kurdi er blitt selve ikonet for denne offer-dyrkelsen. På bare noen få år er offerdyrkelsen blitt et massefenomen. George Floyd er det siste og i hans navn har venstresiden vandalisert, brent ned sig plyndret i by etter by. I natt var det en 13 år gammel gutt som var drept og bare det at han var svart og ble skutt av politiet gjør ytterligere opplysninger overflødige. Det er verdt å merke seg at både kommunister og nazister drev en ligende dyrkelse av sine martyrer. Vi snakker her om et kvasi-religiøst fenomen som kyniske krefter utnytter og dyrker. I navnet til disse ofrene kan man foreslå å «pack the court» og snu opp ned på en institusjon amerikanerne har sett opp til. Pandemien ble en anledning for eliten til å dra fra befolkningen som hadde mer enn nok med sitt eget. Men USAs elite møter seg selv i døra i Kina. Kina slynger tilbake i ansiktene deres at de er systemiske rasister, så hvorfor skulle Kina finne seg i å bli belært av USA om menneskerettigheter? Klima-tsar John Kerry er i Shanghai. Når han får spørsmål om det går an å frikoble klima og tollsatser svarer han at det mener Biden. -Men tror du kineserne ser det på samme måte, spør journalisten fra the Wall Street Journal. Kveld kom svaret: Kina finner seg ikke i å koble klima og handel. Kontekst var EUs forslag om klimatoll. Det ville ikke Kina høre snakk om.

Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Montag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.Mehr als drei Millionen Corona-Fälle in Deutschland In Deutschland haben sich seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie mehr als drei Millionen Menschen nachweislich infiziert. Laut Robert Koch-Institut wurden zuletzt 13.245 neue Infektionen und 99 Todesfälle binnen eines Tages registriert. Die Gesamtzahl liegt nun bei 3.011.513 gemeldeten Fällen, die Dunkelziffer dürfte jedoch weitaus höher liegen. Rechnerisch gelten 2,68 Millionen von ihnen als genesen, wobei jedoch Long-Covid-Effekte nicht berücksichtigt werden. Deutschland erlebt derzeit die dritte Corona-Welle, laut DIVI-Intensivregister sind zurzeit 4.581 Patienten in intensivmedizinischer Behandlung. Wieder Schwarzer in Minneapolis von Polizei getötet Zehn Monate nach der tödlichen Polizeigewalt gegen George Floyd hat in der US-Stadt Minneapolis ein neuer Fall Proteste ausgelöst. Hunderte versammelten sich vor einer Polizeiwache, die Beamten setzten Tränengas und Blendgranaten gegen die Demonstrierenden ein. Zuvor war der 20-jährige Schwarze Daunte Wright von Beamten bei einer Verkehrskontrolle erschossen worden. Eine Beifahrerin wurde durch Polizeischüsse leicht verletzt. Der Vorfall ereignete sich etwa 16 Kilometer entfernt von der Stelle, an der George Floyd durch einen Polizeieinsatz starb - der Fall hatte weltweit Proteste ausgelöst. Union vor der Entscheidung zu Kanzlerkandidatur In den Regierungsparteien CDU/CSU steht eine Entscheidung über die Kanzlerkandidatur womöglich unmittelbar bevor. Der CDU-Vorsitzende Armin Laschet sagte in einem Interview mit Bild-TV, er gehe davon aus, dass er eine Mehrheit für seine Kandidatur im Präsidium seiner Partei habe. Laschet, Ministerpräsident von Nordrhein-Westfalen, hatte ebenso wie der bayerische Ministerpräsident und CSU-Chef Markus Söder seine Bereitschaft zur Kanzlerkandidatur erklärt. In Berlin und München waren Gespräche in mehreren Gremien der beiden konservativen Schwesterparteien geplant. Konservativer Bankier wird neuer Präsident in Ecuador Im zentralamerikanischen Ecuador ist der konservative Politiker Guillermo Lasso zum neuen Präsidenten gewählt worden. Nach Auszählung von knapp 98 Prozent aller Stimmen lag der 65-jährige Bankier mit rund 52,5 Prozent vorne. Der Sozialist Andrés Arauz räumte seine Niederlage ein und schwor die Fraktion seiner Partei auf konstruktive Oppositionsarbeit ein. Auf den designierten neuen Präsidenten Lasso warten nach der Amtseinführung Ende Mai viele Herausforderungen: Pandemiebedingt ist die ecuadorianische Wirtschaft eingebrochen, die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich ist so groß wie seit 2010 nicht mehr. Iran meldet Attacke auf Atomanlage in Natans Inmitten der Gespräche über eine Wiederbelebung des internationalen Atomabkommens mit dem Iran hat das Land von einem "terroristischen" Angriff auf eine seiner wichtigsten Atomanlagen gesprochen. Nach Angaben der iranischen Atomenergiebehörde gab es in der zentralen Anlage zur Urananreicherung in Natans einen Zwischenfall, bei dem aber keine Radioaktivität ausgetreten und niemand verletzt worden sei. Ein israelischer Rundfunkbericht verwies in dem Zusammenhang auf den israelischen Geheimdienst Mossad als möglichen Drahtzieher. Rettungsschiff "Alan Kurdi" wird nicht mehr blockiert Nach sechs Monaten wird das deutsche Seenot-Rettungsschiff "Alan Kurdi" nicht länger von der italienischen Küstenwache festgehalten. Das Verwaltungsgericht in Cagliari auf Sardinien habe entschieden, dass das Schiff freikommen müsse, teilte der Betreiberverein Sea-Eye mit. Der Richter habe seine Anweisung damit begründet, dass Sea-Eye schwere finanzielle Schäden durch die Festsetzung erleide und weitere Schäden entstehen könnten, wenn das Schiff nicht rechtzeitig zu Wartungen nach Spanien überführt werde. Sea-Eye hat nach eigenen Angaben seit 2015 rund 14.000 Menschen aus dem Mittelmeer gerettet. Erster Sieg eines Japaners beim Golf-Masters in Augusta Der Golf-Profi Hideki Matsuyama hat das traditionsreiche Masters im Augusta National Golf Club gewonnen. Der 29-Jährige siegte vor dem US-Amerikaner und Masters-Debütanten Will Zalatoris. Es ist der erste Sieg eines Japaners dort. Als Trophäe bekam Matsuyama das legendäre grüne Sieger-Jackett von seinem Vorgänger Dustin Johnson angezogen und zusätzlich ein Preisgeld von rund zwei Millionen US-Dollar überreicht.

As we journey through this Lenten season, we find ourselves caught between the elements of death and life. Join me, as we wrestle with the difficulty of our times, searching for grace among the sea of faces. Order of the Day ● Greeting ● Opening Prayer ● Scripture: Micah 6:1-8 ● Section V of Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot ● Reflection ● Prayer. You can find more information about the photo of Alan Kurdi used here: http://100photos.time.com/photos/nilufer-demir-alan-kurdi and here: https://time.com/4022765/aylan-kurdi-photo/. You can always send questions or comments to pneumaturgical@gmail.com.

On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis (Part 2) In 2012, Ruba Bilal was living in Damascus, Syria with her husband and two sons; she had reached a level of stability in her life, but the country where she had lived her whole life was in the middle of a dangerous civil war. Bilal said she was an activist in her community and worked on providing aid to people who were in areas that were under siege, but her family had concerns that she would be taken and detained because of the work she was doing. That year, Bilal and her family felt tensions beginning to mount and she said they made the decision to temporarily relocate to Lebanon. As the civil war continued, it was clear Bilal and her family would never have the chance to return to Syria and she submitted an application to LifeLife Syria, an organization that connects Syrian refugees with potential sponsors in Canada. In 2016, she learned her family would be coming to Canada as privately sponsored refugees. Bilal and her family were one of thousands who came to Canada in 2016, after the federal government made promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. The commitment came after a photo of two-year-old Alan Kurdi garnered international attention on the dangers refugees undertake to seek safety. Kurdi and his family were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea by boat after fleeing war-torn Syria. On the journey Alan, his brother Ghalib and mother Rehana perished; Abdullah Kurdi, Alan and Ghalib's father, was the only one to survive. On this episode of Whatever Happened To…?, Erica Vella speaks with Bilal about how she and her family adapted to life in Canada. She also finds out what happened to the Kurdi family and if the federal government has continued its commitment to resettle refugees in Canada. Contact: Twitter: @ericavella Email: erica.vella@globalnews.ca See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In early September in 2015, a photo of a young boy lying lifeless on a beach in the Mediterranean captured the world’s attention. The picture showed two-year-old Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand. Kurdi and his family were attempting to cross the Mediterranean by boat after fleeing war-torn Syria, but on the journey Alan, his brother Ghalib and mother Rehana perished; Abdullah Kurdi, the family’s father and husband, was the only one to survive. Tima Kurdi, Abdullah’s sister and Alan’s aunt, spoke about the night the family boarded the boat in Bodrum, Turkey. Tima said she went to grab her phone and noticed she had dozens of missed calls; she called her sister-in-law who was living in Turkey. The journey the Kurdi family took was one thousands of Syrians attempted at the height of the civil war. On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis and speaks with Tima about the Kurdi family’s devastating journey and finds out how the photo of Alan mobilized Canada to take action and help thousands of Syrians fleeing persecution. Contact: Twitter: @ericavella Email: erica.vella@globalnews.ca See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Among constant crises involving migrants in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, in Italy steps were taken in the name of justice: Sea-Eye filed a lawsuit against the detention of its ship, Alan Kurdi and the judge presiding over the preliminary investigations for Palermo's court in the case against the ex-minister of internal affairs, Matteo Salvini (accused of illegal confinement and misuse of authority), has accepted the request to establish Mediterranea Saving Humans as a civil party in the case.

Alpha and Sophie met exactly 2 years ago TODAY. In the first English episode of the Sea-Eye podcast: Honestly Speaking - I (30, born and still living in Austria) get to talk to one of my dear friends: Alpha (18, born in West-Africa, now living in Slovenia). He's a former guest aboard the ALAN KURDI on its very first mission in December of 2018. Alpha and I talk about the day we met from our respective points of view. He shares his experiences aboard the ship, thoughts on German cuisine, his life in Slovenia and a special message to the European Union and to all of you. Alpha is a master of driving his point home in clever one-liners - listen to what he has to say now and join our conversation! More information about Sea-Eye: https://sea-eye.org/en - Feel free to support us with a donation! [Intro&Outo: Thanks to Jan Wohlfahrt]

Aodhan O’Riordain is Labour TD for Dublin Bay North & former Minister of State with Special responsibility for Equality, New Communities and Culture. He joined Kieran on Tuesday's edition of The Hard Shoulder to talk about the refugee crisis. The death of Alan Kurdi, and the outpouring that followed in 2015, is the latest moment to be voted into Newstalk's 20 Influential Moments of the last 20 years.

Ana França acaba de publicar uma reportagem multimédia sobre a visita que fez aos campos de refugiados na ilha grega de Lesbos. Marta Gonçalves, depois de ter publicado vários podcasts e artigos, está também a preparar uma reportagem multimédia sobre o navio de resgate Alan Kurdi, onde estava no momento em que as autoridades italianas o aprisionaram. Neste episódio, falamos dos que vão ter um Natal longe de casa e da família See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ein kleiner Junge liegt bäuchlings am Strand - tot. Das Bild von Alan Kurdi ging vor fünf Jahren um die Welt und wurde zum Symbol für die Notlage von Millionen Flüchtlingen aus Syrien. Seine Tante Tima Kurdi hat nun die Geschichte des Kindes aufgeschrieben – ein erschütternder Bericht. Von Birgit Morgenrath www.deutschlandfunk.de, Andruck - Das Magazin für Politische Literatur Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

In dieser Folge habe ich mit unserem Rechtsberatungs-Team gesprochen, den JuristInnen Nassim Madjidian und Valentin Schatz. Sie erzählen uns über ihre Arbeit bei Sea-Eye, über den aktuellen Stand der Festsetzungen der ALAN KURDI und anderer Seenotrettungs-Schiffe, internationales Seerecht, Pushbacks, europäische Gerichtshöfe und welchen juristischen Hürden sie bei der Arbeit mit einer Seenotrettungsorganisation begegnen. Wir stellen Fragen wie: Warum können wir Europa nicht einfach verklagen? Wieso werden unsere Schiffe festgesetzt? Was ist die juristische Taktik der EU? uvm.! Hört jetzt rein und bekommt einen Einblick in die Welt der ehrenamtlichen Jurist:innen, die sich für Menschenrechte auf See bei Sea-Eye einsetzen!

Ein ertrunkener Junge am Strand: Dieses Foto ging um die Welt. Der kleine Alan Kurdi wurde zum Symbol. Seine Tante hat die Ereignisse von damals in einem Buch festgehalten: eine tragische, unsentimental erzählte Familiengeschichte. Von Carsten Hueck www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Buchkritik Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Ich durfte für unsere zweite Ausgabe des |Bordfunk: Neues von Bord der ALAN KURDI| mit Kai, dem Menschenrechtsbeobachter der letzten ALAN KURDI Mission sprechen! Kai berichtet uns von seiner Arbeit und den Menschenrechtsverletzungen, die den geretteten Menschen widerfahren sind. Allerdings bringt er uns dabei nicht nur die schlimmen Schicksale der Gäste näher, sondern lässt uns auch daran teilhaben wie es ist, sich mit ihnen nicht nur über Folter und Misshandlung zu unterhalten, sondern auch über alltägliche Dinge wie Fußball, Berufe, Träume, und Schachspielen und auch - was sich für ihn persönlich durch diesen intensiven Kontakt verändert hat. Diese Bordfunk-Folge wurde aufgenommen, während die Crew die Quarantänezeit auf dem Schiff, in einem sardinischen Hafen abwarten musste. Mehr Infos zu Sea-Eye und zu der letzten Mission gibt es auf: https://sea-eye.org/ - Wer möchte, kann uns dort auch gerne direkt unterstützen! [Intro&Outo: Danke an Jan Wohlfahrt]

As the trial for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris enters its sixth week, does the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” or “I am Charlie” still resonate today?In January 2015, after two brothers forced their way into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, Paris was under siege as police launched a manhunt for the gunmen. Two days later, another attack occurred at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, where several people were held as hostages. Related: France combats extremism with secularism — and a hotline In the days after both attacks, over 1.5 million people took to the streets of Paris in a demonstration of unity against terror, with many wearing headbands and waving banners with the words “Je Suis Charlie." The slogan became a symbol of solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a statement of unity among French citizens. But Yasser Louati, who was teaching English in Paris at the time, says that sense of togetherness didn’t last long. He says January 2015 represented a turning point in terms of how Muslims were treated in France.“I mean, there was a before and an after January 2015. Unfortunately, after January 2015, Islamophobia exploded in France."Yasser Louati, human rights activist, Justice and Liberties For All Committee, Paris, France “I mean, there was a before and an after January 2015. Unfortunately, after January 2015, Islamophobia exploded in France,” Louati said.In the days after the shootings, it emerged that the perpetrators of the attacks, the Kouachi brothers, were born, raised and radicalized in France. Yasser Louati is a human rights activist with Justice and Liberty for All Committee.  Credit: Courtesy of Yasser Louati Louati, now a human rights activist with a group called the Justice and Liberties For All Committee, vividly remembers the terror of January 2015. One of Louati’s students got a phone call during class about the supermarket attack. Louati’s 6-year-old son was attending school two blocks from the store, so he rushed to the area on his motorcycle but police stopped him a mile away from the scene. Louati says he vividly remembers that long walk. “Try to imagine that mile of walking, just not knowing whether my son was hurt or if anything happened to his school. Because they spoke of an ongoing shooting in that area,” Louati said.All the children were ultimately moved to safety. Related: Three years after being attacked, Charlie Hebdo questions their survival Ten months later, on Nov. 13, 2015, Islamist terrorists struck again — this time, in a series of coordinated attacks across Paris, killing 130 people. President François Hollande announced a nationwide state of emergency. The new laws granted police exceptional search-and-arrest powers but Louati says the main target was the Muslim community. Louati believes that while many in Paris have focused on the role that religion played in driving the gunmen to carry out such abhorrent acts, few questioned if their upbringing in Paris may have also played a part. Many families, he says, were raided by the police because of calls from their neighbors — who understood little about their religion.“For example, if the wife wears the hijab, if the husband wears a beard. If there is a  mere suspicion that you are a Muslim ‘radical,’ then you lose all of your basic fundamental freedoms.”Related: Lallab aims to give Muslim women in France a voiceFrench legal scholar Rim-Sarah Alouane says the Charlie Hebdo attack allowed those who were already suspicious of Islam to openly display their bigotry. The emergency laws were extended every six months, and eventually, Alouane says they were effectively adopted into common law. Anti-Muslim rhetoric — once seen as the preserve of far-right politicians like Marine Le Pen — was being spouted by centrist politicians and journalists on national TV, says Philippe Marlière, a professor of French and European politics at University College London. “Je Suis Charlie” appeared no longer to be about unity, but about conforming to a vague idea of French identity that left little room for religious diversity.Related: Burkini ban in France is suspended after court ruling“Whatever your background, ethnicity, religion, you needed more and more to conform to a kind of elusive French identity, which, when you read between the lines, is the sort of ‘standard’ French person: White, Catholic or atheist, but certainly there's not much room for Muslims in there."Philippe Marlière, professor of French and European politics, University Collge London“Whatever your background, ethnicity, religion, you needed more and more to conform to a kind of elusive French identity, which, when you read between the lines, is the sort of ‘standard’ French person: White, Catholic or atheist, but certainly there's not much room for Muslims in there,” Marlière said.The drift of Macron’s party La République En Marche further right appears to be compounded by the French president’s recent announcement of a proposed new law to tackle radical Islam, or “Islamist separatism,” as he calls it. The legislation aims to curtail foreign funding of mosques and requires that imams are trained and certified in France. Many Muslims believe they are once again being unfairly targeted. But a recent survey in France shows 75% of respondents approved of the new bill. French author Alexandre Del Valle is among those supporting the president’s plans.“Mr. Macron is very courageous against the Muslim Brotherhood, against radical separatism. It's suicide if we accept radical Islam. Allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to control mosques and Muslim associations, it's like if you accept Nazis to take control of schools,” he told The World.  A mural depicts several of the Charlie Hebdo journalists who lost their lives in the attacks on their offices in Paris in January 2015. Photo taken in 2017 on Rue Nicolas-Appert, near the former office.  Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Ervine  Del Valle doesn’t buy the Charlie Hebdo magazine or particularly like its coverage. Nor did he approve of the newspaper’s recent decision to reprint the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which provoked the 2015 attack. But Del Valle does believe Charlie Hebdo should have the right to publish what it wants. Freedom of speech is an “essential freedom” in France, he said.Professor Marlière says the tone of the magazine changed over the years from a liberal satirical newspaper to one that seems to repeatedly target Muslims. Louati, who is Muslim, says reprinting the cartoon was deeply offensive. “If Charlie Hebdo is truly about freedom of speech, well, how about Charlie Hebdo makes fun of the journalists who got killed in the newsroom? That would be extremely unacceptable. But it wouldn't be more immoral than making fun of the poor Kurdish boy who was found dead on a beach because his parents were trying to flee war-torn Syria for a better life,” Louati said.The magazine printed a mocking cartoon of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose body was found washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015 after the dingy his family used to try and reach Greece capsized.The freedom of speech debate in France after the Charlie Hebdo attack extends beyond newspapers and magazines. After January 2015, French comedians found themselves questioning which subjects were fair game for their jokes. Jonathan Ervine, senior lecturer in French at Bangor University and author of “Humour in Contemporary France,” says several comedy programs were dropped from TV schedules in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Famous French comedian Stéphane Guillon has spoken about his fear of the consequences of mocking the Prophet Muhammad, Ervine says.“If you can die due to a drawing, you can die due to a sketch,” Guillon said in 2016.Related: In Québec, teachers return to school under new religious symbols ban Portait of Rim-Sarah Alouane, a French legal scholar.  Credit: Courtesy of Rim-Sarah Alouane Muslim comedians, too, are questioning what they can and cannot say, but Ervine says he has spoken with Mustapha El Atrassi and Sophia Aram, both of French Morrocan descent, who believe that tackling sensitive subjects with humor is more necessary now than ever. For five weeks, the trial of 14 people accused of being accomplices to the Charlie Hebdo attack, has heard harrowing testimony from survivors. It’s a reminder of the sense of terror that prevailed in Paris in the months after the assault. French scholar Alouane said 2015 and 2016 were “heavy years in France.” But after a couple of years, people grew tired of hearing the word terrorism everywhere and no longer wanted to live in fear, she says. Today, Alouane says, they just want to get on with living. “Now, we think ‘carpe diem, seize the day.’”

Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Samstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.Aserbaidschan und Armenien einigen sich auf Waffenruhe in Berg-Karabach Unter Vermittlung Russlands haben sich Aserbaidschan und Armenien auf eine Waffenruhe in der umkämpften Kaukasusregion Berg-Karabach geeinigt. Der russische Außenminister Sergej Lawrow teilte mit, die Feuerpause gelte von Samstagmittag an. Beide Seiten hätten zudem "ernsthaften Verhandlungen" über die Zukunft der seit Jahrzehnten umstrittenen Region zugestimmt. Seit knapp zwei Wochen gibt es in Berg-Karabach neue schwere Gefechte, bei denen hunderte Menschen getötet wurden. Aserbaidschan soll in dem Konflikt von der Türkei unterstützt worden sein. Zweites TV-Duell zwischen Trump und Biden abgesagt Das für die kommende Woche geplante zweite TV-Duell zwischen US-Präsident Donald Trump und seinem Herausforderer Joe Biden ist offiziell abgesagt worden. Die Kontrahenten werden aber wie geplant am 22. Oktober aufeinandertreffen, wie die Organisatoren weiter mitteilten. Beide Seiten hätten bereits zugesagt. Die Planungen für das Streitgespräch am 15. Oktober gerieten durcheinander, als Trump an COVID-19 erkrankte. Die Veranstalter wollten das zweite Duell der Präsidentschaftskandidaten zum Schutz vor einer Corona-Ansteckung per Videoschalte austragen, das lehnte der Präsident ab. Steigende Corona-Zahlen in Europa sorgen für Beunruhigung In Europa ist die Zahl der täglichen Corona-Neuinfektionen nach Angaben der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) erstmals über die Marke von 100.000 gesprungen. Spanien ist wieder besonders betroffen. Über die Hauptstadt Madrid verhängte die spanische Regierung den Notstand. In mehreren Großstädten Frankreichs gilt bereits wieder die höchste Corona-Warnstufe. Frankreich registrierte am Freitag mit mehr als 20.000 Corona-Neuinfektionen binnen 24 Stunden einen Tageshöchstwert. In den Niederlanden wurden knapp 6000 Neuinfektionen gemeldet - die Zahl der Patienten in Krankenhäusern steigt. Operationen werden deshalb gestrichen. Italien setzt Rettungsschiff "Alan Kurdi" wieder fest Der deutsche Seenotretter "Alan Kurdi" darf den Hafen in Olbia auf Sardinien nicht verlassen. Bei technischen Kontrollen seien "Unregelmäßigkeiten" entdeckt worden, die die Sicherheit von Crew und Bootsmigranten an Bord gefährden könnten, begründete die italienische Küstenwache die Entscheidung. Erst wenn die Mängel behoben seien, dürfe das Schiff der Organisation Sea Eye auslaufen. Besatzung und Betreiber sprechen von Schikane und einer politisch motivierten Festsetzung. Im Mai war die "Alan Kurdi" in Palermo auf Sizilien mit einer ähnlichen Begründung am Auslaufen gehindert worden. Hurrikan "Delta" trifft auf die USA Der Hurrikan "Delta" ist mit Windgeschwindigkeiten von gut 150 Kilometern pro Stunde auf die Küste des US-Bundesstaates Louisiana getroffen. Der Sturm brachte heftige Regenfälle mit sich, die Behörden warnten vor Sturmfluten. Mehr als 200.000 Haushalte hatten nach Berichten von US-Fernsehsendern keinen Strom. Meteorologen rechneten damit, dass "Delta" auf dem Weg durch Louisiana schnell an Kraft verlieren wird. Nadal und Djokovic bestreiten Finale der French Open Titelverteidiger Rafael Nadal aus Spanien und der serbische Weltranglisten-Erste Novak Djokovic stehen sich im Endspiel der French Open gegenüber. Djokovic gewann gegen den griechischen Tennisprofi Stefanos Tsitsipas in einem packenden Fünf-Satz-Match. Zuvor hatte sich Nadal gegen den Argentinier Diego Schwartzman in drei Sätzen durchgesetzt. Nadal steht zum 13. Mal im Finale der French Open und greift nach seinem 13. Titel. Für Djokovic ist es das fünfte Roland-Garros-Endspiel.

Ich durfte für unsere erste Ausgabe des |Bordfunk: Neues von Bord der ALAN KURDI| mit dem Captain der letzten ALAN KURDI Mission Joachim Ebeling sprechen!

Forsendunefnd vegna Lífskjarasamningsins komst ekki að niðurstöðu í dag. Framkvæmdastjóri Samtaka atvinnulífsins segist gera þá kröfu til viðsemjenda sinna að þeir sýni sveigjanleika þegar allt hafi breyst eins og raunin sé nú. Íslenska ríkið var í dag dæmt til að greiða tveimur systkinum samtals rúmlega tvær milljónir króna, auk vaxta, í miskabætur vegna mistaka á Landspítalanum sem urðu til þess að faðir þeirra lést árið 2014. Miðflokkurinn bætir við sig fylgi samkvæmt nýrri könnun MMR, en fylgi Samfylkingarinnar dalar. Björgunarskipið Alan Kurdi er á leið til hafnar í Frakklandi með á annað hundrað manns sem var bjargað undan ströndum Líbíu um síðustu helgi. Það ræðst væntanlega á morgun hver niðurstaða forsendunefndar kjarasamninga verður. Ekki er vilji innan verkalýðshreyfingarinnar að rifta samningum. Það myndi þýða að ekkert yrði úr boðuðum launahækkunum um áramótin. Hins vegar eru blikur á lofti að atvinnurekendur segi upp samningum. Þeir hafa ítrekað bent á að ekki sé innistæða fyrir boðuðum launahækkunum. Staðreyndin sé að forsendur kjarasamninga Lífskjarasamningsins séu brostnar miðað við það efnahagsástand sem ríkti þegar samningar voru undirritaðir í apríl í fyrra. Þorsteinn Víglundsson fyrrverandi þingmaður Viðreisnar og framkvæmdastjóri Samtaka atvinnulífsins benti á þessa staðreynd í grein í Fréttablaðinu í dag. Arnar Páll Hauksson talaði við Þorstein Víglundsson. Í gær greindust 57 ný kórónuveirusmit, tekin voru rúmlega fimm þúsund sýni og um hemingur þeirra sem greindust var í sóttkví. Reyndar er það svo að á fimmta þúsund eru komnir í sóttkví. Tveir eru á sjúkrahúsi með COVID-19 eins og verið hefur síðustu daga. Frá því í lok síðustu viku hefur á þriðja hundrað smita greinst. Þessi fjöldi smitaðra í gær kemur ekki óvart? Víðir Reynisson, yfirlögregluþjónn hjá Almannavarnadeild Ríkislögreglustjóra. Anna Kristín Jónsdóttir talaði við Víði Reynisson. Norska flugfélagið Norwegian er enn á ný nær gjaldþrota og peningar sem ríkið lagði til í vor á þrotum. Því er unnið að björgun félagsins fyrir veturinn. Helst eru bundnar vonir við að norska ríkið kaupi hlut í félaginu. Gísli Kristjánsson sagði frá.

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A photo of three-year-old Alan Kurdi's lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015 became a tragic symbol of the European refugee crisis and a rallying cry to help families fleeing Syria. Kurdi's mother and brother were on a mission to get to Canada with money sent by Alan's aunt, Tima Kurdi, when the boat smuggling them out of Turkey capsized. Since her nephew's death became a photo seen around the world, Tima has become a vocal Syrian-Canadian human rights activist, and recently wrote a book entitled The Boy On the Beach which recounted her family's escape from Syria. Tima is speaking with CKNW today about a disturbing photograph taken earlier this week - it's being shared widely today after it was published in a Mexican newspaper. It depicts a man and his 23-month-old daughter dead in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande. The photo highlights the deadly risks faced by Central American refugees crossing into the United States. For Tima, the image takes her back to a very painful time for her family

To celebrate her 50th birthday, the composer Roxanna Panufnik discusses her new album Celestial Bird which showcases the variety of her work, from religious choral music to an adaptation of a poem by the Indian polymath Rabindranath Tagore, as well as two major new commissions, one of which - Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light - will have its world premiere at the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday.Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, discusses his new illustrated book which is a response to seeing the photo of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015.As part of Front Row's Inspire season we'll be concentrating on dreams, and how they have provided inspiration for writers and artists over the centuries. The writer Matthew Sweet considers the influence of dreams on films and literature, neuro-scientist Prof Anil Seth gives us a clinical approach, and the artist Liliane Tomasko discusses the power of dreams and how she depicts them in her work.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May.

Simon Lewis is an International Humanitarian Lifeguard who has saved close to 2,000 refugees fleeing parts of Africa and Syria. These refugees are using ill-equipped vessels that are overloaded and travelling across parts of the Mediterranean sea which are seen as some of the most dangerous migration routes in the world. Simon with the aid of Mission Lifeline, is operating in these areas to assist where he can. The job is not easy and is plagued with legalities which add an extra layer of complexity to an already difficult situation. Heavily influenced by the story of Alan Kurdi that made world news in September 2015, Simon used his years of lifesaving here in Australia to raise money, awareness and begin a series of trips to Europe to do his part in saving the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable. I discovered Simon indirectly through the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre) who have played an integral part in supporting refugees seeking asylum here in Australia. Just recently, Simon participated in the ASRC's yearly telethon which raised over $800,000 for the organisation to continue to help those in dire need. Simon and I touched on the lead up to his big decision to take his skills abroad, the challenges he faced in the lead up and the many stories of adversity and also tragedy that he's experienced on the seas of the Mediterranean. It can be a divided topic which stirs up a lot of opinions. Simon's work is what I would class as true hero work. Human's saving humans. Doing the right thing by our fellow man no matter where you were born, the colour of your skin or your beliefs. It can be all too easy to feel disconnected from the adversity of others and I hope this episode brings further awareness and compassion to the many who need it. Show notes Follow Simon on Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | GoFundMe | Lifesaving Victoria ASRC - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Article - 'If I make a mistake, people die': The Aussie lifesaver with the hardest job (News.com.au) Article - Australian lifesaver Simon Lewis helps asylum seekers during 'harrowing' Greece volunteer mission (ABC News)

Podcast Show Notes - CanadianImmigrationPodcast.com S1 E29 – Ronalee Carey – Private Sponsorship of Refugees My Bio – Ronalee Carey is an immigration and refugee lawyer who practices in the beautiful capital of Canada - Ottawa, Ontario. Her practice focuses on finding immigration solutions for individuals and families through family sponsorships, the Express Entry program and provincial nomination programs. She assists with visa applications to visit, study or work in Canada, and helps those with criminal inadmissibility issues. Part of Ronalee's practice includes refugee work. She assists individuals who have arrived in Canada who wish to claim refugee status. She also provides pro bono assistance to a group in Ottawa who are privately sponsoring refugees from abroad. Question: How did you find yourself in the immigration field? Since I was a young child, I knew I wanted to be a lawyer, but immigration law was never something I'd thought about. I grew up in a small town in northern Ontario were we had a total of 7 racialized individuals in the entire town, one of whom was my fifth grade teacher. When I went to law school, I focused on criminal and family law. I articled at a general practice firm, and after my call to the bar, practiced mostly family law. My life then took a huge turn. My husband and I had been foster parents for the Ottawa Children's Aid Society for several years, and we had the opportunity to adopt a beautiful baby girl through the society. She was mixed race, with an East Indian birth mother and a birth father of African descent. We later adopted two additional children, both of Haitian descent. I took an extended leave from my career during this time. When I was ready to return to the practice of law, I wanted to start back part-time. I ran into a former classmate at a Law Society event, who had an opening for a legal researcher/law clerk with part-time hours. Her field happened to be immigration law. When I started working in immigration law, I was immediately hooked. I was able to meet people from all over the world, and every matter provided a new and interesting challenge to solve. I loved how political immigration law was; I could read an article in my morning newspaper that would affect how I would handle a client file that day. In 2012 the lawyer I had been working for moved from Ottawa in order to be closer to her aging parents. She left me a few files, and I ‘hung up a shingle'. Recently, I had to hire a junior lawyer to assist me with files. Question: How did you get involved in private refugee sponsorship work? Like many people in Canada, I was devastated at seeing the photo of Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the shores of a beach in Turkey. In September, 2015, I received an email from the University of Ottawa's Refugee Hub, which called for lawyers willing to volunteer with a new initiative designed to assist individuals and groups who wanted to sponsor Syrian refugees to come to Canada. I immediately signed on. Question: What is the uOttawa Refugee Sponsorship Support Program (RSSP)? http://refugeessp.ca/home/ From that initial email, grass roots organization continued, and volunteers in Ottawa put together the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program. The goal was to match volunteer lawyers with groups and individuals who wanted to sponsor Syrian refugees. Not all the lawyers were immigration and refugee lawyers – in fact the majority were not. As such, training had to be provided. Even for me, the procedures were new – though I'd assisted with inland claims for refugee protection, the overseas process was new to me as it was to many private immigration lawyers. We met in a room at City Hall for the training. A generous lawyer from our local bar bought pizza for the hundred or so attendees. Our next step was to reach out to the community, to let them know our services were available. The City of Ottawa was planning a community information night, to let interested sponsors know about the process and to allow local immigrant service agencies provide information on their services. Another grassroots organization called Refugee 613 had emerged, to connect people in Ottawa who wanted to donate money, volunteer or sponsors refugees with others. Refugee 613 was a big presence at the event. The event was overwhelmingly successful. Hundreds and hundreds of people from Ottawa showed up to the event. The information session itself was supposed to be held in the municipal council chambers, but it filled to overcapacity and the speakers had to be broadcast into the atrium for those who couldn't get into the room. Even the atrium was overflowing. The uOttawa RRSP had set up a free legal clinic, so that potential sponsors who speak to a lawyer at the event about the procedures for sponsoring. We gave legal advice to over 400 people that night. Question: How did you get matched to the G30+ Ottawa constituent group? The goal of that first evening, at Ottawa City Hall, was to provide initial legal advice to as many people as possible who wanted to sponsor Syrian refugees. Later, the goal was to match those individuals or groups who wanted to proceed with a lawyer willing to help them through the process. At the legal clinic, the first group of people I gave advice to was another lawyer who worked for the Federal government. She and two friends had both committed to finding 10 people each, all willing to donate $1,000. The money raised by these 30 people would allow them to sponsor a family from Syria. I requested to be ‘matched' to this group, so that I could be the pro bono lawyer for the group and help them with the sponsorship process. In addition, my husband and I requested to become members of the group of 30, and made a personal financial contribution. As such, I am not only the pro bono lawyer for the group, but also a group member. Question: How did this group of 3 turn into the G30+ constituent group? The three initial group members intended to do a Group of 5 (G5) sponsorship. This is a special program where 5 individuals agree to provide financial and settlement support to an individual or family. The plan was to find two other people who could join them in the Group of 5, as official sponsors, and the other individuals would provide a supporting role and assist in the financial aspect. The core three members were overwhelmingly successful in their efforts to find others willing to join them in sponsoring a Syrian family. They quickly found more than 30 people willing to help, which is why the name had to become the G30+. Their fundraising efforts were also much more successful than they'd originally hoped for. Our initial meeting of the group saw funds pledged in excess of $70,000. This meant the group could sponsor more than one family. Question: How did the group link up with the Anglican Diocese? Because the group had become so large, and had raised so much money, a Group of 5 sponsorship wasn't really appropriate anymore. We needed a larger focus. In Canada, the government has partnered with groups called Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAH), who are pre-approved to sponsor refugees. Many of these SAHs are religious groups. In Ottawa, the Anglican Diocese has a great deal of experience with refugee sponsorships. They agreed to take on the G30+ Ottawa group as a constituent group under their organization. This meant that funds raised could be channelled through the Diocese's charitable structure, which allowed members to receive tax receipts for their contributions. We also were able to tap into the Diocese's wealth of experience in making applications to sponsor refugees. Question: How did the group go about finding refugees to sponsor? The group had a very unusual problem. We had lots of money, lots of volunteers including Arabic speakers, and no one to sponsor. No one from our group was Syrian, so there were no family members we could help. At the time, neither the Canadian government, Refugee 613, nor the uOttawa RSSP was able to match potential sponsors with either family members in Canada or directly with refugees overseas. So, we had to look abroad ourselves. One of our group members had connections to a group of women who were Nobel laureates. This group directed her to a journalist working in a Syrian refugee camp in the Zaatari, Jordan. She further spoke to a translator she worked with, to ask him if he could identify anyone who the group could sponsor to come to Canada. The translators' brother was interested. Prior to the war he'd studied business in university, and he was desperate to get to Canada. He would act as an ‘anchor relative', to later assist his parents, and his siblings and their families to come to Canada. The translator also identified a family who needed our help. Both parents had worked in leadership roles in the camp, the father as a team leader and the mother as part of a health committee. They had six children ranging in age from six months to 17. We agreed to take on both the single individual and this family of 8. Working through the translator, we have completed the sponsorship applications for these 9 individuals. We have provided the applications to the Anglican Diocese, who is preparing them to submit to the government. However, they have to wait until the government opens up spaces in the queue. Question: Who has the group sponsored so far? While efforts were underway to sponsor these 9 individuals, another opportunity presented itself. The government of Canada, in addition to directly sponsoring individuals through the Government Assisted Refugee (GAR) program, partners with Canadians to jointly assist refugees through the Blended Visa-Office Referred (BVOR). In this program, refugees who have been identified by the UNHCR are referred by Canadian visa offices oversees. The government puts these individuals and families onto a list, and SAHs are able to offer to sponsor the individuals. The government provides for 50% of the financial cost of the sponsorship, and the SAH (or their constituent group) provides the remainder of the funds. From a pro bono lawyer's perspective, this type of sponsorship is great because the refugees have already been pre-approved – there is no need for us to complete the forms needed for the refugees, and we do not have to have any of their documents translated. All we do is submit an undertaking to provide for the family and a settlement plan stating how we will provide for the family's needs when they arrive in Canada. For sponsorship groups, getting a BVOR family is like winning the lottery. The list of eligible families is sent out by the government. Only a bit of information is provided – names, ages, occupations, where they'd like to live in Canada. Sponsors have only a few minutes to choose a family and respond – there is so much interest that any hesitation means all the refugees will be claimed by sponsoring groups. The G30+ Ottawa group was fortunate to be matched with a family of 4 from Syria, parents and two young children. This family arrived in Canada this past February. In addition, we were contacted by the Anglican Diocese to sponsor a woman whose son was already in Ottawa as a refugee. Though the woman is Iranian, not Syrian, the group agreed to sponsor her. We are hoping she will arrive shortly. Question: What have their experiences been to date, in settling the individuals who have arrived in Canada? We are blessed with many capable volunteers. An affordable apartment was found for them; it was furnished mostly by donations. After they arrived, they were set up in school and language classes, and things like health cards were applied for. For the summer, day camps were found for the children. We've had a potluck dinner to welcome them. It has been a wind whirl of activity. Because the family did not speak English when they arrived, a lot of the work fell onto the Arabic speaking members. Question: How is the government handling the sponsorship of refugees, now that the initial election promise to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees has been fulfilled? The government reached its target of 25,000 Syrian refugees in February, 2016. This 25,000 was made up of both government and privately sponsored refugees, including our family of 4. However, they also promised to bring in a total 25,000 government assisted refugees by the end of 2016. They appear on track to fulfil this commitment. You may remember at our national immigration law conference in April, our immigration minister appeared for a luncheon address. He said that he was probably the only immigration minister in the world being criticized for his failure not to provide enough refugees for those interested in sponsoring. However, he stated that the government's target of a maximum 300,000 immigrants for 2016 was firm, and that he would not be increasing that number in order to accommodate more refugees. Question: Is there still a strong interest from the Canadian public to sponsor refugees? How is the government responded to the interest in the private refugee sponsorship program? I spoke to Don Smith, from the Archdiocese of Ottawa about the problem of there being more interest from the Canadian public to sponsor than our government is willing to provide capacity for. He told me he was torn over the issue. He said on the one hand, we don't want to allow our government to back away from the UNHRC and the international community by failing to take in its share of refugees. On the other hand, there are so many people who have family they want to sponsor, and other individuals who want to help settle refugees in Canada, that restructuring the way refugees spaces are allocated might be the only short-term solution. That means less government assisted refugees, and more BVOR spaces along with priority processing to G5 and other privately sponsored refugee programs. And the evidence seems to be mounting that privately sponsored refugees do better than government assisted refugees. Our own refugee family is a case in point. They arrived in Canada to a 30+ new friends, willing and able to help them with anything they could possibly need. Shortly after our family arrived, the parents of the father of our family (the children's grandparents) arrived as government sponsored refugees. Though our group has provided some settlement assistance to them as well, they don't understand why they don't have their own group to help them. Question: If someone was interested in sponsoring a refugee, from Syria or elsewhere, how would they go about it? A minimum group of 5 individuals is necessary in order to be able to sponsor. Partnering with a SAH is not necessary, but provides numerous benefits. There are also community sponsorship programs, and a program for people willing to sponsor refugees with high needs, such as those with medical conditions or who have experienced severe trauma. But individuals and groups need to temper their expectations. I attended a session where Louisa Taylor of Refugee 613 spoke. She made the very poignant comment that ‘refugees are not pets'. These are individuals with their own personalities and temperaments, who may or may not want to accept the friendship and help you are offering when they arrive in Canada. We think that when refugees arrive in Canada, they will jump at every opportunity to learn English, find a job, and integrate into the community. But what if they are so exhausted by their ordeal they have been through that they only want to watch Arabic television? And what if the group wants to sponsor, has the funds, but there are no spaces left in the government programs? Some people will need to find another way to channel their goodwill. To get in touch with Ronalee: www.ronaleecareylaw.ca For more information about the uOttawa Refugee Sponsorship Support Program: http://refugeessp.ca/home/ For more information about Ottawa 613: http://www.refugee613.ca/ Government of Canada website – how to sponsor a refugee http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/sponsor/index.asp

Tasneem Jamal was three years old, the same age as Alan Kurdi, when she became a refugee. But her story had a happy ending. Now, she says Canada can do better when it comes to helping refugees, and has in the past. GUEST: Tasneem Jamal, author of Where the Air Is Sweet, a 2014 novel about the Ugandan Asian expulsion, living in Kitchener, Ontario See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.