Podcasts about Statelessness

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Important Links: Hmong Innovating Politics: Website | Instagram Asian Refugees United: Website | Instagram Bhutanese American Refugee Rights website Transcript Swati Rayasam: You are tuned in to Apex Express on KPFA. My name is Swati Rayasam.  Since the onset of the Trump administration, immigrant and refugee communities have been under increased attack, being kidnapped in broad daylight, detained in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and deported to countries many of them barely know. All without due process or communication to their loved ones and communities. On tonight's episode, we're focusing on a particular segment of our immigrant and refugee community, Hmong and Bhutanese refugees. Both of these targeted communities are stateless with no land to call their own, and their deportation carries the very real danger of disappearance and death. Robin Gurung from Asian Refugees United and Kao Ye Thao from Hmong innovating Politics, discuss their community and personal refugee stories, and talk about the intersection of the US' deeply broken immigration and criminal legal systems, otherwise known as crimmigration. We also get to hear from the wives of two detained refugees, one Bhutanese and one Hmong, who are currently fighting to keep their families together and to protect their loved ones from the dangers of deportation as stateless people. I also want to note because this is a rapidly developing situation, that this episode was recorded on August 13th, 2025, and is being released on August 28th, 2025. For the most recent updates, please go to bhutaneserefugeerights.org or check out the Pardon Refugees campaign. Now, here's Miko. Miko: Welcome to Apex Express. Thank you so much for being here today. I'm so glad to bring you all together in this time. I'm wondering if I could ask you each to introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about the community your organization serves and what you do, and let's start with Kao Ye.  Kao Ye: Hello everyone, and thank you for making space- my name is Kao Ye Tao. I use she her pronouns, and I work as the director of policy and partnerships with an organization called Hmong Innovating Politics. We are an organization that serves Hmong youth and families in Sacramento and Fresno, which holds two of our largest Hmong American communities in California. And our work with Hmong youth and families is really about developing their leadership to organize towards social justice and to get the resources that their communities deserve. Miko: Thank you, Kao Ye and Robin, could you please introduce yourself? Robin: Sure. My name is Robin Gurung. I use he, him, his, I'm from the Nepali speaking Bhutanese community. I live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. my role at Asian Refugees United is the co-founder and the co-executive director. We have our program in California and Pennsylvania. California programs are, are serving Asian diaspora and then, Pennsylvania programs are focused serving the Nepal speaking Bhutanese community. We work in the intersection of arts and healing, storytelling, civic engagement, leadership development. Thank you. Miko: Thanks Robin and I am your host Miko Lee, lead producer at Apex Express. And all of us are part of a network called AACRE Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality, which is a network of progressive Asian American groups. So you all work with refugee populations. I'm wondering if you could tell a little bit more about the backstory of your community, and also if you feel comfortable about how you personally came to be a refugee in the United States. And, Robin, I'd love to start with you on that one. Robin: Sure. My community is Nepali speaking, Bhutanese refugee community. And we are ethnically Nepali, which means culture wise and language wise we speak Nepali and follow the Nepali culture tradition. Our ancestors like maybe in 18 hundreds, 19 hundreds migrated from Nepal to Bhutan and became the citizen of that country. And most people don't know about Bhutan, it's a very tiny country between China and India. And, if people know about Bhutan, then people know it through the cross national happiness concept, Bhutan is considered the happiest country in the world. So our ancestors were in mostly in the southern area of Bhutan for generations, they became the citizen. They had their own home, their own land. And then later, 1980s, early nineties, there was a policy by the government of Bhutan, which is the monarchy government system- king rules the country. They brought a policy called One Nation, One People Policy. Which means all different groups of people would have to follow the same culture, same religion, kind of follow the same dress code and because of that policy all people were forced to stay away from following our own culture or our own religion, which, most of our folks were Hindu. Our people protested against it and because of that, the government expelled over a hundred thousand of our community members. And, they expelled to India and then from like India wouldn't allow us to stay and we had to resettle in Nepal in seven different refugee camps under different international agencies like U-N-H-C-R and other agencies. Miko: And then Robin, can you tell a little bit about your personal story and how you came here? Robin: Yeah. Yeah. So 1992 is when my family had to leave Bhutan. And at that time I was three years old. I remember growing up in a refugee camp in Nepal, from three years until I was 23 years. So 20 years of my life I was in a refugee camp in Nepal. And in 2012, I came to US through the refugee resettlement program introduced to our camps in 2008, and through it US agreed to resettle 60,000 of our committee members. By 2017, I think US has resettled about 70 to 80,000 of our Bhutanese community members.   Miko: Thank you so much for sharing. Kao Ye I wonder if you could talk about your community and the refugee resettlement program that your community was a part of. Kao Ye: The Hmong American community, or just the Hmong community overall, is a group that's indigenous to East and Southeast Asia. And through our ancient history, we've always been a stateless, people fighting for our autonomy to live to practice our customs and our culture. And particularly where we come into this history of refugee is during the Vietnam War where many Hmong people, alongside other ethnic groups in Laos, were caught in the crossfire of the United States conflict in Southeast Asia. And so with the Vietnam War. The Hmong as well as many other ethnic communities that lived, in the hills and the mountains were recruited in covert operations by the CIA to fight back against the Vietnamese, the Northern Vietnamese communist forces, as well as the Putet Lao. And so once the US withdrew from Southeast Asia, it created a vacuum of conflict and violence that our people had to escape from in order to survive. And so after the Vietnam War in 1975, we saw the mass displacement of many Southeast Asian ethnic communities, including Hmong families. And that is where my history starts because my parents were born in Laos and because of this war, they fled to Thailand refugee camps and lived there for a few years until they were able to come to the United States in 1992. And I'm actually I'm a child of refugees and so what I know about this part of my history comes from the stories of my grandparents who raised me as well as what little I could learn in the textbooks of public education. And so it wasn't actually until going to college and. Being able to access more of this literature, this history that I really learned about what the United States had done in Southeast Asia and the ramifications of that for myself and my family and so many others, refugees that. Have to have had to resettle in the United States. And so it's definitely a history that runs very close, because we have relatives that live through that refugee experience. And so it is very well and alive. And so as we now approach this conversation around ICE and deportations, it really is a reminder of the trauma that our people face, but are still facing as a people that have been seen as disposable to the United States government. Miko: Thanks, Kao Ye. Let's talk a little bit more about that. But first I wanna say, did either of you ever hear about refugees in your textbooks? I never did. So I'm wondering if, you said you learned a little bit about that from textbooks. Was that something you learned in public education. Kao Ye: I did not learn about refugees or refugees experience. I learned about the war and as a Hmong kid it brought me so much delight to try to scroll through the history books just to see if Hmong people were mentioned. And even then the refugee experience was not ever something that we talked about. I felt like definitely not in, in high school. I think it was college really, that then started to articulate those terms and that Southeast Asian identity, that is really where I think I also became politicized in that. Miko: Yeah, because I think in textbooks there might be a little section on the Vietnam War, but it does not talk about the, all the Southeast Asian ethnic peoples that actually fought in the war. We have to dig that information out on our own, but I wanna move us to what is happening right now. So the Trump administration has created. Culture of fear among immigrants and refugees, these ICE raids and disappearances. It is so intense and using immigrants as a fear tool to prop up white supremacy is so blatant right now. I'm wondering if you can each talk about, how this administration's policies are impacting your communities. And, Robin, let's start with you. What is happening right now? I know since the end of March, can you share a little bit about what's been happening with Bhutanese Americans? Robin: Sure. Sure. So our people were settled to this country with the hope that this is going to be our home. But starting March of this year, with the new policies of this current administration, we started seeing abrupt, ICE arrest in our communities. People were picked up from home, their workplaces, and from their ICE, check-ins. And, since March, within I would say two to three months, more than 72 of our community members were picked up, mostly from Pennsylvania and then Ohio, and also from other states like New York, Georgia, North Dakota. So until now, we have, the records of at least 50 people who have been deported to Bhutan and at least 72 who are detained. So more than 30 people are [at risk] of getting detained. The nature of the ICE arrests that we have seen is we don't know whether the due processes were followed. They made it so hard for the families to look for attorneys, and also to track their family members. Within days family members would find their loved ones disappeared, and then they wouldn't be able to talk to them they wouldn't be able to track them and provide the support that they needed. So for us as a community organization we did not anticipate this and we were not prepared for this. And, and we didn't have the infrastructure to really address this, right? So it became such challenging work for us. Like within days we had to mobilize our people. We had to mobilize our teams to help family members with legal support, emotional support, mobilize our community members to update what's happening with this situation. The rapid response work, know your rights clinics that we had to set up. So on one hand it's the detention and deportation in the US and on the other hand, when our people were deported to Bhutan, what we're seeing is within 24 hours, they are being expelled from Bhutan to India, and then from India because India wouldn't accept them as well, they had to enter Nepal because for most of these Deportee, they're very young, they were born in refugee camps, and for most of them, the only known land is Nepal. Right. And they had to enter Nepal without documentation. And then some of them were found in refugee camps. And most of them are unknown. Like they're, they have disappeared. Miko: So that is so much over the last few months that ARU has had to step in and take a leading, role in this situation that has impacted the Bhutanese community from focusing on wellness and youth development to suddenly translating materials into Nepali, translating, know Your Rights materials into Nepali, hosting all these different events, the work that you have been doing is really powerful. I wonder if you could share with us the story of Mohan Karki, who is a community member that's currently detained in Michigan. Robin: Sure. So, Mohan Karki is now in detention in Michigan and he's a community member member who lived in Ohio. So he was detained by ICE during his regular ICE check-in , I believe in April, they detained him and then he was taken for deportation. And last minute, the families and the community had to come together and then appeal the deportation. Right now he's in Michgan detention center and his wife, who was pregnant and had due date, when Mohan was being deported on June 10, is now fighting day and night to stop the deportation and also to bring Mohan home. Right now, Asian Refugees United and other community partners, like AWPAL, Asian Law Caucus are working together to support Mohan's family, to bring Mohan home and also running a, GoFund me fundraiser, to help the family pay the legal fees. Miko: Thanks Robin. And we're gonna listen to Tikas story right now. Tika Basnet: Hi, my name is Tika Basnet I'm from Ohio and I'm fighting my husband deportation case.  So on April seven, a lot of people told us not to go to the ICE office, but my husband wanna follow the rules, he wanna go there. We went to the Westerville office inside And we sit down, we talk to each other. Nothing will go wrong. And suddenly ICE told us to come inside and they told us that my husband got travel documents from Bhutan. I told them like it is not safe for my husband to get deport in Bhutan, all the Bhutanese people run away in 1990s due to the ethnic cleansing and if my husband get deported in Bhutan, he will either gonna get killed, tortured, disappeared, imprisoned, I don't know what will happen, but they did not listen to me. So they detained my husband and I came at the parking lot and his mom saw me coming alone. So they start crying and I told them like, Mohan is gone and this is the last time I think I'm gonna see my husband. the time that my husband was taken away from Butler County on June 10 I was 41 weeks pregnant. I was supposed to deliver on, June 10. But no, I told the doctor I change my delivery time. I am not gonna go now like I need to fight for my husband. Like, When Bhutanese people started coming here in 2007. Third party promise us that in here in United States, we will get our identity. That identity will never taken away. They promise us that the way Bhutan take our identity, they will not gonna do that. we thought that this is our home. We thought that having a green card, having a citizenship, it is permanently, but no, we are, we all are wrong. And that identity is taken away within a second. And we became stateless again. So, my husband, Mohan Karki he just arrived in the United States he been here less than two years when the incident happened. He did not understand the law. He did not understand the culture. He did not know anything.  My husband he was only 17 years old, high school student coming from school to home. On the way to reach their apartment, there is one private house. They are just trying to go to the shortcut from the backyard. So some neighbor call 9 1 1. And that only one mistake lead to deportation.  The place that we come from, there is no boundaries. In Nepal, we are allowed to go anybody property We are allowed to walk somebody else house and because of the cultural difference, he's paying price right now.  At that time, nobody can speak English. They cannot understand what police were saying and Nepali interpreter told my husband that if you say I'm guilty, you'll out of prison soon. But if you did not say I'm guilty, you'll end up in prison for 20 to 25 years. High school student he's scared he just say, I'm guilty, and he did not know what is deportation mean. He did not know what he was signing. Nobody informed him what he was signing. That signing was deportation. What happened in 2013 is impacting us in 2025 and still he wish he did not cross somebody else backyard at that time. He wish he knew that he wasn't allowed to cross somebody else's backyard. I don't know what will our future is gonna be, but I hope that he gets second chance. His community love him. He love people. He was working as a truck driver. He paid taxes. He was supporting his parent. He was supporting me. My daughter deserve to have a father. You know, she's just one month. But now the dream that I was hoping one day I'm gonna build with my husband that is taken away and I'm left alone with this child. I already went through a lot without him, i'm the only one that fighting for my husband case. The deportation is not only breaking one family, but it is breaking everybody, the community and the family. And I hope that people can support me so I can fight for my husband case. Like I really need so many attorney. I need criminal attorney to open up his 2013 case. And I have wonderful, wonderful attorney, my husband get stay off removal, but that is not guarantee my husband can get deport anytime. The attorney fee are really expensive and he still needs support. The US made bhutanese people a promise of home. We belong here. Stop the detention and deportation. Stop deporting Bhutanese people. We are stateless. We don't have country, don't have a home. This is our home. US is our home. We belong here. Miko: Of the 72 people, Mohan is the first Bhutanese refugee that we actually have a stay of release on, as Robin was saying earlier, most of the folks were moved from state to state, so you can't really get a lawyer in that time. And as we all know, nonprofit immigration lawyers are under a lot of stress because of the attack of this administration. So it makes it incredibly complicated, let alone the legal fees that it costs to help support people going through this. And right now, Mohan has a stay on his, deportation and the lawyer that they do have is drafting up a letter to be able to release him into the community and also overturn his original case that happened as a minor in Georgia, which was a ridiculous case where he was leaving school, early high school, first year in the country, leaving high school early, and walked with his friends across a backyard. And the neighbor that they walked through their yard called the police, and they arrested him along with his friends for trespassing, they gave him paperwork that he didn't even understand. He signed it along with a interpreter they gave him false information to say he'd be locked up for 25 years, or if he signed this papers, that would be fine. He could go and what the papers said was it changed his charge into a felony and had him sign a letter of deportation. So this is part of the failure of our American legal system that we're not providing adequate information. It is a lack of due process. Thankfully, the work that Asian Law Caucus and United States of Stateless and other community activists are doing to call this out and help work with us is really critical. I wanna turn now to Kao Ye how this administrations is impacting Hmong refugees, and how is it similar or different to the experiences that Robin is describing for the Nepali speaking Bhutanese community? Kao Ye: I echoed many of the sentiments and the challenges that Robin shared around what we as nonprofit, grassroots organizations are having to build and grapple with just the limited infrastructure that we have to deal with the current ICE disappearances and deportation and all the support that's needed for the families. And so thank you Robin, for sharing that. I wanted to start broad a little bit because I think that this Trump administration is happening in the backdrop of the 50th year commemoration of the end of the wars in Southeast Asia and the refugee resettlement. We had over 1.1 million Southeast Asians resettle to the United States, the largest immigration resettlement, in American history. And so this year brings so many complexities, I think as a Southeast Asian community where there is a level of looking back at policies that have impacted us and have failed, but also looking forward what is the community that we are building together to move and progress together. And so there are those complexities, I think as the fact that it's the 50th year and like, this is what we're dealing with. This is the trauma that we are grappling with. And so I wanted to put that out front and center because even I think within our communities , there is no necessarily enlightenment in terms of how we talk about what is happening to our people and how they're getting deported unjustly. So that is why it is so important to have this dialogue within our communities as well as the solidarity that we also share with the Bhutanese community and other immigrant groups too. I think that in many of our Southeast Asian communities, their reasons for deportations is very tied to past convictions, and so this is the intersection between criminal law and immigration law. And it makes it complex because our people are now having to consult not just an immigration lawyer, but like criminal attorney so that they could really assess like what kind of relief they can get in order to mitigate, impending deportations. And then also miko you had shared about the lack of adequate legal service or representation because many of these folks, right, that have had these convictions that have now served their time and are simply members of our community that make our community rich. They are now having to revisit removal orders that they signed, thinking that, oh, nothing necessarily was gonna happen because they don't have a repatriation agreement. So, in our community, there was never a thought that we were going to be deported back to our home country because of that policy. And so that is a big contributing factor as to why the Hmong community, we don't have that infrastructure to really support our members who have gone through the criminal justice system and now have those removal orders. And so HIP, as well as many other grassroots. Sadly we did have to scramble to put this know your rights information together because again, I don't think that there was visibility in the need for us in this conversation around immigration Southeast Asians are a segment of our API community and so it just, I think, multiplied the invisibility that we already faced as a group of Southeast Asians. And so the support was definitely not there. And, to Robin's point, we did our best to try to put this information together to our community, starting with the Know Your Rights. And then we also realized like it was more complex than that, and that the legal supports were so necessary because everyone's case was different. I think what we're still dealing with now is that there's always been a lack of trust between our community members and government entities and nonprofit organizations. And so, if someone is dealing with the situation, they wanna go to, a partner that they trust to help them, even if they're not necessarily equipped to do that work, is that they're going to only the people that they trust because there is such a big mistrust. And so I think that, there is still the level of trust building that is needed to be done within our community so that folks feel comfortable to come to us or come to other people for support. And I think what makes me feel emotional is just when I hear about community members feeling hopeless and just feeling like there's nothing that they can do and that level of disempowerment to me, I think is something that is real. And I can't say that we can't combat it, but I think that it is about being able to find different outlets of support for them. Miko: Thank you for lifting that up. And just , in terms of the numbers, over three months, March, April and May, there were about 72 Bhutanese Americans that have been detained. And this is just kind of starting up with the Hmong community. So we had 15 that were detained from Minnesota and another 10 right now are being held in Michigan. And we also see this happening with Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodians, and Myan folks. All of these folks as Kao Ye you're pointing out, have had common threads, which is connections with the system, with the criminal legal/ justice system and crimmigration is something that in the AACRE network we've been talking about and working on, which is really about the education to prison, to deportation pipeline. And one of the things that this administration had talked about is, let's get rid of all the murderers and the rapists. You know, this like scare language about people that are convicted criminals, let's get rid of them all. But the fact of the matter. The vast majority of all of these people are people like Mohan Karki, a cultural misunderstanding that happened when he was a child. Like Lou Yang, who is Hmong refugee detained in Michigan right now. Somebody who was involved in something as a kid, but has since then become a leader in the community. So let's take a moment and listen to the spouse of Lou Yang, a Hmong refugee detained in Michigan in July. Anne Vu: My name is Anne Vu and I come before you today with a heart full of hope. Sorrow and a plea for justice. I am a proud American, a mother of six, the daughter of Hmong refugees who would gain their citizenship, and the wife of a man called Lou Yang, who is now detained and faced with potential deportation from the only country that he's ever known. Lou has lived in Michigan since October, 1979. He was born stateless in a refugee camp in Nongkai Thailand and his family fled Laos due to persecution. His father and like many others, served with the United States force during the Vietnam War as part of the Secret War, recruited by CIA in Laos, a conflict that most Americans do not know has happened. The Hmong were recruited by the CIA as part of the Secret War to help America during the Vietnam War. But when the war ended and the US withdrew, we were as the Hmongs declared enemy of the state. What followed was genocide, polarization and persecution by the state, and it was because of our alliance, the promise made by the US government that the Hmong refugees were legally settled here under certain migration of refugee laws and acts. And Lou arrived here as a young, toddler in infancy. In 1997, he was arrested on an alleged accomplice in an attempt home invasion, second degree. He was in the vehicle at the time. He never entered the home. He literally was still a juvenile at that time. He had a court appointed attorney and was advised to take a plea without being told it would affect his immigration status for the rest of his life. This is the reality of our immigration system – long, complex, confusing and devastating, unforgiving. It is not built for people like us, people like Lou, people who have served their time, rebuilt their lives and have nowhere else to go. We've walked this legal path, we've stayed together in the lines, and yet we are here punished today. Lou has no other charges, no current legal issues, no history of violence. He is not a flight risk. He is not a danger to our public safety. He is a father, my husband, a son, a son-in-law, a grandson and a brother to many, and our leader and a provider to our community, and to my family. He renews his work authorization and follows every rule asked of him no matter how uncertain the future felt. Together, we've raised six beautiful children. They're all proud Americans. Lou has contributed to Michigan's economy for decades working in our automotive industry and now he is gone and all that he is built is unraveling and the community is heartbroken. We didn't come from wealth. We didn't have every opportunity handed to us because we didn't come seeking a land of opportunity. We came here because of survival. We had to build from the ground up. But the most important thing was Lou and I, we had each other. We had our families, our friends, and our neighbors. We had a shared commitment to build a better life, grounded in love, respect, and purpose. And somehow that's still not enough. For years, we were told like other Hmong families that Laos in Thailand would never take us back. And that has changed. In June, 2025 the US imposed a partial travel ban on Laos, citing visa overstays, and lack of deportation cooperation. And in response, Laos began issuing these documents under pressure. Today over 4,800, including Hmong, Myan, and the other ethnic minorities are facing removal to Laos and to many other countries, many have never stepped foot in a country that they are now being sent to. Lou is Stateless like many others that is detained with him. None of these countries recognize him. He was born in the Thailand refugee camp, it does not recognize him nor qualify him for any sort of Thai citizenship and I'll tell you guys right now if forced to return, he will face danger because of his family's deep ties to the CIA and United States military. Deporting him turns him, a civil servant and respected community leader, into a political casualty, it would be a grave and irreversible injustice. To deport him now is to punish him to death. Once again, 50 years later, as we celebrate resilience this year across the nation, we are now celebrating a fight within our own grounds, right here in United States, right here in Michigan. We're now fighting the same fight within our own country. Thousands of Southeast Asian Americans, many that entered legally admitted as refugees are being deported for decade old offenses they've longed paid for. America is our country. All we ask is the right to stay in the home that we've helped to build and work hard to protect. We are not seeking special treatment. We are asking for justice, compassion, and a second chance in this country to claim what we believe in. To Governor Whitmer and members of Congress and all elected officials, please help bring Lou and the many others home. Urge ICE and DHS to release him on humanitarian grounds. Help his case. Help us preserve the integrity of our laws and the dignity of our families. And to the public allies and the media. Please call our elected officials. Please call these offices.  Please share Lou's story. We need voices. Voices louder than ours alone. It is hard times you guys. It is real. And I speak to you from the bottom of my heart. Please help me and our families in the many that are suffering. This is our home. These are our children. This is my husband and this is our fight. Let him come home. Let our families be whole again, and let America keep its promise. Thank you guys for hearing me. Miko: Lou Young is a community leader. Michigan, who actually runs a nonprofit in support of Hmong folks in that community, and is targeted and also has a stay of removal. So we're doing a targeted campaign for both of these folks, Lou Yang and Mohan Karki, to be able to get them released to overturn their original convictions and they also have spouses that are telling their stories and telling the impact these detentions have had. Because while this current administration talks about getting rid of criminals, what they are actually doing is breaking apart families and community. Swati Rayasam: You are tuned in to Apex Express on 94.1 KPFA, 89.3 KPFB in Berkeley, 88.1 KFCF in Fresno and online@kpfa.org. Coming up is Deporting the Pilgrim from the Anakbayan Long Beach Mayday Mix tape.   Swati Rayasam: That was please be strong, featuring Hushed, loudmouth and Joe handsome. And before that was deporting the pilgrim from the Unec Bayan Long Beach Mayday Mixtape. Now back to the show. Miko:  I wanna shift us a little bit to talking about Asian american representation in the larger fabric of immigration justice in the United States. Mostly many of our Asian communities have been like isolated, not really involved in the broader immigration movement. And I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about the difficulty and nuance of bringing your community struggle to the forefront because many of us heard about the Venezuelans and the Mexicans that have been deported and what was going on, but we don't hear as much about these stories of our Asian sisters and brothers. I wonder if one of you could give voice to that. Robin: Before going there can I add something to  Miko: of course.  Robin: crimmigration conversation? So when you all are sharing about that, I was thinking about, the justice system in this country and what we are seeing right now is a broken justice system. Like you said, Miko, where families are separated where families are broken, and what I don't understand is, when, let's say your loved one gets into trouble, makes a mistake, and gets into a trouble, then, as a human being, like, don't you want your loved ones to rebuild their lives? Like Yes, of course there is a system that you have to follow, the laws that you have to follow, but at the end, I think we all want our loved ones to come back, rebuild their lives, right? And what we're seeing in this country is they're constantly breaking the families. And I don't see how we are going to build a better future when we are constantly, hurting the families. And in the cases of detention and deportation, what we're seeing is the double punishment. Like the mistakes that they had made, but then throughout their life, they have to go through that, a continuous cycle of being punished. And not just the individuals, but their family members have also go through the challenges, the suffering, right? And in the case of Bhutanese from double punishment to double expulsion to this, the state of being statelessness. Right? So what kind of future we are imagining when an individual has to go through that continuous cycle of being punished and not having the opportunity to rebuild their lives. So that's a big question mark that I think, we all need to think about. To your later question around my community and the larger Asian American context or the national context. My community is relatively new to this country. We lived, almost two decades in a refugee camp, which was a enclosed camp. And our lives were dependent on foreign aids like UNHCR or ILWF. Pretty much I would say we had our own world over there. And for us to work outside the refugee camp was illegal. There was no laws that gave us the permission to work outside. So we were not pretty much exposed to the outer world. So for us to come to US was a big step. Which means pretty much from basic every day stuffs like, you know, using a bathroom, using a kitchen, taking a bus. All of those were foreign for us. So for our community to really tap into the education system, the political landscape of this country. And also like the experience of being expelled for voicing our, our opinions, for fighting for our rights. Right? So for us, for our community to kind of step in into the politics, it's like re-traumatizing ourselves. I would say there are a lot of barriers, multi-layered barriers for our community members to really tap into the larger political, like socio political landscape, from language barriers to culture barriers to education, to pretty much everything. So right now, the way our committee has been being attacked. It's a surprise to the community. And also it is like kind of traumatizing the community and taking us back to the same place of feeling, insecure, feeling like we don't have a home. And we did hope that this is legally, this is going to be a home. Because after coming to the US most of us became the legal citizens of this country and we started rebuilding our lives. Now it's kind of like going back to the same circle of statelessness. Miko: Thank you for sharing about that. Kao Ye, would you like to add to that? Kao Ye: When I think of the Hmong American community and even the Southeast Asian community and why the narratives of what is happening still feels very invisible. I think of how our community, we were assimilating for survival. And I speak on that as a child of my refugee parents and siblings where growing up we were taught to, listen, not speak out, not cause trouble. Go through the system, listen to authority, listen to law enforcement. And because of that, I feel it's shaped a culture of fear. Fear to dissent and fear to speak out because we care so much about the stability of our families. And we wanted to protect ourselves, because of everything we've gone through with the war. And we are finding that it's been challenging for our community members to come forward with their stories. Honestly, we're still sitting on that and we're still kind of sitting through like, why is there that tension? You know, I feel like folks are going through a lot and even folks have, our impacted loved ones, but they're afraid to tell their story because of fear of of retaliation. And so I think that there is a level of, I think that lack of even psychological safety, but real, physical, real financial safety that people have. And I think that being a factor to the assimilation, but also this facade of like the American dream and like if we don't just disrupt, if we don't speak out, we will be protected. And, white supremacy, right? Like we will be okay. And it's a facade because we know that because our communities are the ones getting kidnapped and getting deported. Right. And so I think there is that fear, but there's also recognition of this now, this facade that the silence doesn't protect us and that there is a real need for us to really, be strong in speaking out, not just for our SEA siblings that are impacted, but for all of our immigrant groups, even the Bhutanese community, right. That's been impacted during this time. And so I, yeah, I think it is that multi-layered experience of being a Southeast Asian refugee community on top of, being part of this AAPI umbrella. AAPI we are not homogenous. We all have very unique histories as to how we have dealt with the systems in this country and how we came into this country. And so I think it's been challenging to make space for those nuances. And at the end of the day, I still see the interconnections that we all have together too. And so, I think it's the willingness to make space for those different stories. And I am finding that more of our ethnic media, our smaller news outlets are more willing to cover those stories as opposed to, these larger mainstream outlets. Like they're not covering those stories, but we are. Miko: Thank you. Oh, both of you have brought up so much today about our failed criminal justice system, about us punishing people as opposed to rehabilitating people and punishing them more than once. We brought up questions around statelessness and the impact that it has, and I just recently learned that the United States does not have any policy on Statelessness. So one of the things that this coalition of folks is trying to do is to get a congressional hearing to help the United States develop policy around statelessness, because it is actually our responsibility and our duty to do that. The other thing I hear you both talking about is this good immigrant, bad immigrant trope, which we've heard of a lot, but I think that's also very much connected to why so many members of our communities don't wanna speak out because this connection with, you know, quote unquote criminal history might be something that's shameful. And I'm wondering if you both see that as a divide mostly between elders in the community and younger folks. Robin, do you wanna talk about that? Robin: Yeah. I mean, initially when we were mobilizing our community members to fight against the the unjust and unfair detention and deportation, this issue around the perception around good immigrants and bad immigrants became one of the main topic of discussion. We had to deal with people, and mostly elders, but I would say some young folks as well, who would pull themselves back on speaking against this issue because for them people who are being deported or detained are criminals and they deserve this kind of mindset. And not being able to see the larger picture of how the administration is targeting the immigrant and the refugee population of this country and really trying to dismantle community power, right? So, yes, it is a challenge that we are, we're going through and I think it's going to be quite a bit of work, to really build solidarity within our own communities. Kao Ye: I feel that the divide in the Hmong community is stemming from class and education. I feel as though when folks are articulating, regurgitating these justifications of the bad immigrant as to why folks should be deported it's folks that maybe kind of made it in their lives and now they're comparing themselves to folks that were not in that situation. And there is this growing within our community as well, where some folks are getting that education, getting, good jobs. But so much of our community, we still suffer from poverty, right? And so, I think that has been really interesting to witness the level of division because of class, because of income and also the education piece. Because oftentimes when folks are feeling this, it comes from a place of ignorance as well. And so that's why I think the education piece is so important. I actually feel though our elders are more understanding because these are their children that are being separated from them. And Robin's point is that when we have loved ones that go through the system, we just want them to rebuild their lives and be self-sufficient. And I feel like those are the values that I grew up in my community where our parents were always about keeping the family together to a fault, you know? And so they don't want separation. They just want us to be well and to do well, and to turn our lives around. And so, I feel strongly that our elders, they do understand that the importance of giving this opportunity for us to, to stay together and turn our lives around. Miko: Thank you so much, both of you for joining me here today to talk about this important conversation. I'm wondering if you could provide our audience with how they could find out more about what is going on and what are next steps for our audience members. Robin, let's start with you. Robin: Yeah. I just wanted to add what, Kao Ye talked about. I do agree the patterns around the divide is based on class. And I do see that in the community, and not just the class, but in our community class and caste, I would say. And in terms of the class, there were some instances where we had to deal with even the highly educated like PhD holders kind of, questioning us like, you know, what we are advocating for, and, I couldn't understand like, I couldn't relate the education, the title, the degree that he holds and the perception around this issue. Right. So, I just wanted to echo that. So, in terms of our work and Asian Refugees United, our website is www.asianrefugees.org And you can find us in our Instagram, Facebook, Asian Refugees United. Miko: And you can also get latest news about what's happening at bhutaneserefugeerights.com. Yeah. And Kao Ye how can folks find out more about your work? Kao Ye: Right now HIP is part of a statewide network in California called the Pardon Refugees Campaign, where we are really pushing Governor Newsom to pardon all refugees, not just Southeast Asians because of everything that we talked about, about how our families, they deserve to stay together. And so, I don't think we have a website up yet, but you can follow this campaign with us. We will be having a rally and press conference, coming up soon, in the next few weeks. And so, I would say that please follow us in that work where we are really moving in coalition with all of our uh, grassroots partners to advocate for our loved ones that are currently being impacted. Miko: Thank you so much, Robin Gurung, Asian Refugees United and Kao Ye Thao from Hmong Innovating Politics. Thank you so much for being with us here today, and I hope you listeners out there take action to keep our families together, to keep our people in the communities as loved ones where they belong. Thank you all. Have a great night. Swati Rayasam: I'm so grateful that Miko was able to talk to Robin and Kao Ye. And for those who missed it, visit bhutanese refugee rights.org for the most recent updates on the Bhutanese refugees. The press conference in rally Kao Ye mentioned took place last week on August 21st, 2025, but check out the Pardon Refugees Campaign for updates from the coalition supporting Hmong, Cambodian Laotian, Myan, and other refugees facing deportation. Thanks so much for tuning in to Apex Express. Please check out our website at kpfa.org/program/apexexpress to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating, and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Apex Express is produced by  Miko Lee, along with Jalena Keene-Lee, Ayame Keene-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar,  Anuj Vaida, Cheryl Truong, Isabel Li, Ravi Grover, and me Swati Rayasam. Thank you so much to the team at KPFA for their support and have a good night.   The post APEX Express – August 28, 2025 – “And we became stateless again” appeared first on KPFA.

Mo Amer is the creator and star of the hit Netflix comedy series Mo. It's a first-of-its kind Palestinian-American sitcom with a fraught plot line about the American immigration system and the hope to return, at least for a visit, to his family's homeland. We talk to Mo Amer what it's like to make a show so centered on the real facts of his own life, and to be thrust into the role of spokesperson for Palestinian-Americans at this particular moment.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

For memberships: join this channel as a member here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mGuY4g0mggeUGM6V1osdA/joinSummary:In this conversation, Kaivalya Apte and Rajesh Pandey talk about the engineering behind AWS Lambda, exploring its architecture, use cases, and best practices. They discuss the challenges of event handling, concurrency, and load balancing, as well as the importance of observability and testing in serverless environments. The conversation highlights the innovative solutions AWS Lambda provides for developers, emphasizing the balance between simplicity and complexity in cloud computing.Chapters:00:00 Introduction to AWS Lambda04:36 Use Cases and Best Practices for AWS Lambda09:34 Event Handling and Queue Management19:41 Idempotency and Event Duplication Challenges29:39 Cold Starts and Performance Optimization34:37 Statelessness and Resource Management in Lambda42:18 Understanding Micro-VMs and Cold Starts45:14 Resource Management and Recommendations for Developers47:04 Scaling and Back Pressure in Serverless Systems51:33 Cellular Architecture and Fairness in Resource Allocation55:23 Handling Problematic Events and Poison Pills01:01:03 Testing and Operational Readiness in Lambda01:14:11 Preparing for High Traffic EventsReferences:Handling Billions of invocations: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/handling-billions-of-invocations-best-practices-from-aws-lambda/Firecracker: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/Connect with Rajesh: https://x.com/RPandeyViewshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshpandeyiiit/Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insights!=============================================================================Like building stuff? Try out CodeCrafters and build amazing real world systems like Redis, Kafka, Sqlite. Use the link below to signup and get 40% off on paid subscription.https://app.codecrafters.io/join?via=geeknarrator=============================================================================Database internals series: https://youtu.be/yV_Zp0Mi3xsPopular playlists:Realtime streaming systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4se-mAKKoVOs3VcaP71X_LA-Software Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4sf6By03bot5BhKoMgxDUU17Distributed systems and databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4sfLDUnjBJXJGFhhz94jDd_dModern databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4scSeZAsCUXijtnfW5ARlrsNStay Curios! Keep Learning!#aws #awslambda #serverless #distributedsystems #scalability #reliability

Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea. So much has happened since we started to put this episode together. We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s not waste any time and dive right into it! On today’s episode, first we present a interview with an organizer on the recent “Statelessness” conference that took place in Evansville,... Read Full Article

For a year and a half, Israel has been bombarding the densely populated Gaza Strip in response to attacks staged by Hamas on October 7th, 2023. It was a rapid escalation of an old, old conflict and many people understand that it has created millions of displaced people and refugees. Not many people understand that many of those are also stateless. This third episode of Belonging Nowhere looks into it.

Standing for Collective Liberation “No one will be free if the others live under occupation. No one will be safe unless everyone is safe.” In this live SAND Community Gathering (November 2024) Zaya and Maurizio were in discussion with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists Osama lliwat & Rotem Levin who share their personal stories, describe the reality on the ground, and explain their vision for a path toward collective liberation. Osama lliwat was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Jericho, after his family was displaced in 1967. In the peace world for more than 15 years and the co-founder of Visit Palestine, he has dedicated his life to nonviolent resistance. He has worked with the Sulha Peace Project and Interfaith Encounter Association, appeared in several documentaries including Objector and The Other, and speaks regularly on peacebuilding at organizations and universities around the world. Rotem Levin was born and raised in Ein Vered. After his military service, he participated in a transformational intensive dialogue program in Germany, where he got to know Palestinians on a personal and intimate level. This instigated a change in perspective on the story he was born and raised with. After this experience, he started organizing similar programs in Aqaba, Jordan, where he offered the experience to other post-military Israelis and to Palestinian and Israeli medical workers. He is a committed activist and doctor by profession. Topics: 00:00 – Introduction and Welcome 00:45 – Context of the Gaza Conflict 03:33 – Osama Liwat's Background 04:05 – Rotem Levin's Background 09:41 – Rotem's Personal Journey 20:11 – Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 27:35 – Living in the West Bank 33:35 – The Statelessness of Palestinians 34:30 – Personal Stories of Displacement 35:38 – Growing Up Amidst Conflict 43:19 – Acts of Resistance 54:03 – Encountering Peace Activists 01:02:29 – A Call for Unity and Humanity 01:06:47 – Final Reflections and Gratitude Links: Watch Where Olive Trees Weep Purchase the full 23-video series Conversations on Palestine Learn more about the SAND Community Gatherings Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

On this episode of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, host Shahid Durrani welcomes Christoph Heuermann, a globetrotter and expert on living a life of true freedom. Christoph shares his expertise on cryptocurrencies, AI, and decentralized finance, highlighting how these technologies empower entrepreneurs to control their money and lives. He discusses the future of global mobility, the importance of having multiple residency and citizenship setups, and the integration of AI in business operations. Christoph also recounts his unique experiences, including a fascinating kidnapping story in Sudan. Chapter Stamps: 00:43 Meet Christoph Heuermann 01:37 The Impact of Blockchain and Decentralized Finance 02:43 AI and Tax Optimization 04:53 Flag Theory and Digital Identities 08:20 Balancing Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Banking 10:22 Christoph's Diverse Income Streams 13:01 The Future of Global Mobility and Statelessness 16:41 Christoph's Kidnapping Story 18:22 Conclusion and Final Thoughts   Pullout Quotes: “AI is influencing so many areas of people's lives... the future is very bright for entrepreneurs." "The nice thing about AI is that you don't need many of the typical people anymore. Like you don't need a typical tax advisor anymore because I will be able in very short periods to take over to do your accounting." "Flag theory is all about going where you're treated best... it's really tailored to everyone and his preferences." "In the end, crypto cannot be completely prohibited anymore. There will always be one country like providing the intermediary into and out of the system." "When like the U.S. or certain other big powers embrace Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, then many other countries will follow suit." "Our approach is not to specialize on one country. We specialize on basically every country because I also visited every country." "We administer and support a lot of businesses in the U.S. and we get like a recurring annual fee for administration. So that's actually the main income of my business at the moment." "At some point, we probably don't need passports anymore. Because we will be scanned and controlled anyway. And everyone is in some global database."   Social: Website: http://denationalize.me/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophtoday/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christoph.today/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000470020209   Disclaimer: Please be aware that the opinions and perspectives conveyed in this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent the views, ideologies, or principles of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, its associated entities, or any organizations they represent or are affiliated with. We provide a platform for discussion and exploration, and the content of each episode is understood to be independent expressions from our guests, rather than a reflection of the beliefs held by the podcast or its hosts. Notice to the Super Entrepreneurs community: Before we part, remember to join our Private Facebook group, 'Mindset for Business Success' Here we share mindset wisdom to elevate your life and business LIVE every Tuesday morning(EST), ready for a transformative journey? This group is your key to unlocking potential and achieving business growth. Don't miss out on this incredible free resource. Join us in 'Mindset for Business Success' Today! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindsetforbusinesssuccess/ The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. Bob Proctor  ▬▬▬ Free Clarity Call with Shahid▬▬▬  https://calendly.com/shahiddurrani/free-clarity-call-with-shahid-durrani ________________________________________________________________________ OFFERS: https://zez.am/officialshahiddurrani  ▬▬▬ Get my Free Webinar▬▬▬ How to super scale your business to the next level without chasing strategies and feeling stuck https://shahiddurrani.com/registration/  ▬▬▬ Business Funding▬▬▬  https://www.7figurescredit.com/superfunding  ▬▬▬ Fund Your Clients▬▬▬  https://join.7figurespartners.com/?a_aid=superfunding  ▬▬▬ The TEDx Talk Program▬▬▬ https://info.shahiddurrani.com/tedx ▬▬▬ Professional Investment Ideas Delivered to your Inbox▬▬▬ https://capexinsider.com/insider-newsletter/?orid=90906&opid=94 ▬▬▬ FREE DOWNLOAD Reveals Recession Proof Business▬▬▬ https://www.b2bfundingpartner.com/b2bfree100?a_aid=superfunding&a_bid=1f1eb0a5 ▬▬▬ START-UP INVESTOR READY TO HELP▬▬▬ https://info.shahiddurrani.com/ideas ▬▬▬ How to make $3,493 commissions without doing any selling▬▬▬ https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=superentre&vendor=ambsador ▬▬▬ Stock/Options Trading Academy That Works▬▬▬ https://lddy.no/1gqxb  ▬▬▬ Real Estate Investing on Terms! No Credit | No Down payment▬▬▬ https://smartrealestatecoach.com/?sld=super Affiliate Disclaimer: If you buy through one of the links provided, I may receive a commission (without any additional charge to you).  @SuperEntrepreneursPodcast   @officialshahiddurrani 

(Ep 218) State of Statelessness' First Tibetan Language Anthology Feature-Film by ctatibettv

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares Canada, spoke with Priya earlier last week about the regulatory landscape covering military usage of artificial intelligence, reflecting on the second Responsible AI in the Military Domain or REAIM Summit held during September in Seoul, South Korea. On today's program, we'll hear part two of this conversation (you can listen back to part one here). Branka leads Project Ploughshares' research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her work examines concerns regarding the development of autonomous weapons systems and the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on security provision and trends in warfare. Her research interests include trends in warfare, civilian protection, use of drones, and civil-military relations.// Dr Jordana Silverstein, Senior Research Fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the granddaughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors and stateless refugees, joins us to speak about the upcoming launch of the Centre's new oral history podcast 'Being Stateless,' which she hosts. The podcast consists of interviews with people living in so-called Australia who have been stateless, offering a space to share stories, insights, knowledge and experiences of statelessness from people who migrated to this country in the second half of the twentieth century. Jordana is also the award-winning author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders (2023) and Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2015). The launch event for 'Being Stateless' is from 5:45PM on Wednesday 9 October at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness in Arts West. Registrations are essential - you can register here.// Autistic disability activist Shaun Bickley caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the labour exploitation of disabled people in so-called Australia with a focus on the issue of wage theft by Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs. Today, you'll hear part one of that conversation. Shaun is campaigning for an end to subminimum wage for disabled people in Australia, and has created an open letter, which you can sign onto as an individual or endorse on behalf of an organisation [Plain English version linked at top of letter].// Louis is a regional campaigner with Frack Free NT, a grassroots community group that has been fighting back against the destructive fracking industry in the Northern Territory for over a decade. Louis joined us in the studio all the way from Larrakia Country/Darwin to discuss urgent demand to stop Beetaloo Basin gas fracking projects, as Tamboran Resources has already started drilling for its gas project and plans to soon commence fracking, leaving precious water resources at risk.// Calls to action:Attention Brisbane Lions supporters! We may have won the flag, but we've got some important work to do. Write to club@lions.com.au (especially if you're a paid member) to raise your concern about our club's partnership with Caltex, a service station company owned by Chevron and identified as a BDS target. Find out more about Caltex's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza here, and #BoycottChevron.//Frack Free NT Urgent Actions:Contact your local MP or Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek, urging them to provide an exact date or bring forward the advice requested from the Independent Expert Scientific Committee. This ensures that the advice is in before fracking starts, giving the Minister 28 days to act and stop the damage. She has the power, let's push her to use it! //Tell UniSuper to vote in favour of APA resolution. APA Group, Australia's largest gas pipeline operator, is pushing to construct pipelines to support fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. UniSuper, as APA's biggest shareholder has a crucial opportunity to live up to its climate claims and must commit to voting in favour of this resolution.//

Send us a Text Message.This episode delves into the complex intergenerational impacts of identity and citizenship within a Japanese American family, particularly focusing on the decisions made by Koji's grandfather, Takaiichi Sakai, during his incarceration in a WWII concentration camp. Featuring actor Derek Mio, the episode combines personal stories with historical analysis, exploring themes of loyalty, cultural belonging, and the heavy consequences of choosing between nationalities. Through candid conversations and reenactments, the hosts examine the lasting effects of their ancestors' choices on their own identities and the broader community.ABOUT OUR READERDerek Mio is an actor and comedian from Huntington Beach, CA. He portrays real-life recipient Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura in the Netflix anthology series Medal of Honor--executive produced by Robert Zemeckis--and is the lead actor in the second season of the critically acclaimed AMC anthology series The Terror co-starring George Takei and executive produced by Ridley Scott. He is the creator and host of 'The BudoComedy Show' held at the Terasaki Budokan non-profit rec center in Little Tokyo, downtown Los Angeles featuring comedians such as Atsuko Okatsuka, Al Madrigal, Sheng Wang, Ian Bagg and more--the show has raised over $10,000 for the facility. Derek earned a Bachelor of Arts from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. His hobbies include surfing, fishing, birding, and wrangling his 2-year-old son.ABOUT USWelcome to "Japanese America," where the Japanese American National Museum unveils captivating stories that add a Nikkei slant to the American narrative. In each episode, we explore Japanese Americans' unique experiences, challenges, and triumphs, illuminating their rich contributions to the mosaic of American life. From historical milestones to contemporary perspectives, join us for an insightful journey showcasing the diverse tapestry of a community that has shaped the American story in extraordinary ways.  Welcome to "Japanese America," where each story unfolds like a chapter in a living history book.For more information about the Japanese American National Museum, please visit our website at www.janm.org. CREDITSThe music was created by Jalen BlankWritten by Koji Steven SakaiHosts: Michelle Malazaki and Koji Steven SakaiEdited and Produced by Koji Steven Sakai in conjunction with the Japanese American National Museum

The Nakba Never Ended. Amid 76 years of Nakba and 7 months of genocide, Basma and Ahmed expose Israel's ongoing colonial project stealing as much Palestinian land as possible while erasing the indigenous population. Basma El Doukhi is a Humanitarian Scholar and Stateless Palestinian Refugee from Rashidieh Camp in Lebanon Studying a PhD in Migration Studies Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Please support our work: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDeepdive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdeepdivegram/ Daily news: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Summary This week, Anna and Tarun catch up with Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO of Paradigm and long-standing friend of the ZK Pod! First they cover the work Georgios has been doing since he last appeared on the show, covering everything from updates on Foundry to the more recent work on Reth. They then dig into what makes it different, what inspires its design, where it is heading and the eventual end goals of the project. They also chat about the general client node landscape, from the ETH 2.0 research days to present day, before diving into discussing different clients from different teams, how this diversity can protect a chain and how each client can differ. Here's some additional links for this episode: Georgios' GitHub Introducing Reth by Paradigm Reth GitHub Episode 224: Foundry with Georgios Konstantopoulos Loom Network CryptoZombies Geth: Ethereum Full BSC Node Guide: How to Run BNB Smart Chain Nodes GitHub: flashbots:mev-geth Arbitrum Verkle Trees for Statelessness Check out the latest jobs in ZK at the ZK Podcast Jobs Board. The next ZK Hack IRL is happening May 17-19 in Kraków, apply to join now at zkkrakow.com. o1Labs is excited to announce the v1 release of o1js, THE fastest way to build zkApps and deploy to the Mina blockchain. After 2 years and 70,000 downloads, o1js v1 is the externally-audited, enterprise-grade Typescript zkDSL the community has been waiting for. Are you ready to build the next killer zkApp? Then visit o1js.org and get started today. Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on YouTube

Was bedeutet es, keine Staatsbürgerschaft zu haben; also staatenlos zu sein? Weltweit sind mehr als 10 Millionen Menschen von Staatenlosigkeit betroffen. Allein in Österreich leben laut Melderegister über 20.000 Menschen mit ungeklärter, unbekannter oder gar keiner Staatsbürgerschaft. Welchen Problemen begegnen sie im Alltag, wie ist ihr Status rechtlich geregelt - und warum können sie keine Staatsangehörigkeit vorweisen? Dazu ist der Jurist Leonhard Call-Blaßnig im #wissenschaftsradio zu Gast. Er schreibt den Länderbericht über Österreich für das "European Network on Statelessness". Diese Sendung ist Teil des Radio Radieschen-Themenschwerpunktes "Staatenlosigkeit".

The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 0:08 Timelines for Verkle trees & Statelessness coming to Ethereum https://twitter.com/rudolf6_/status/1752966751254618547 03:47 EigenLayer Risks Q&A https://twitter.com/eigenlayer/status/1752819160546242857 07:40 Graphic explainer on how EigenLayer works https://twitter.com/0xAllen_/status/1752751762799309072 09:09 EigenDA is gearing up for its mainnet launch https://twitter.com/zkBri/status/1752765526969823580 15:47 Puffer Finance the latest to launch an stETH vampire attack https://twitter.com/puffer_finance/status/1752857887813300659 16:46 Ethereum Staking Dune dashboard https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-staking 20:20 EtherFi “mega week” for extra points https://twitter.com/ether_fi/status/1752754098984878536 22:22 Ethereum Foundation's year in review and look ahead https://twitter.com/ethdotorg/status/1752760162467577925 23:22 MovementLabs bringing parallelization & formal verification to Ethereum https://twitter.com/movementlabsxyz/status/1752799376458776789 26:20 A list of “The best Ethereum analytics sites” https://twitter.com/AlphaLemonade/status/1752849786552947154 This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hy-bI3OMv7g Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.

The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 00:09 Fidelity file ETH spot ETF https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1730257787593056562 04:11 Ethereum Beacon Chain 3rd birthday https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1730508532142014594 06:38 Dencun will be the last fork deployed on Goerli https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1730243410278178859 08:32 Best Prague + Electra Upgrade Name? https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1730238145038282932 10:24 Verkle Tress for Statelessness https://twitter.com/rudolf6_/status/1730191951100825615 17:44 Dappnode smoothing Pool for Solo Stakers https://twitter.com/DAppNode/status/1730257622744379729 20:11 Obol Mainnet Open Beta is now live https://twitter.com/ObolNetwork/status/1730504813572686025 23:26 Eigenlayer - “Intelligent DeFi” emerges downstream https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan/status/1730310412904599714 26:16 L2beat tracking transaction finality for rollups https://twitter.com/l2beat/status/1730258953404137481 This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U1hp1mNJLcg Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.

Early this year, the government announced that the constitution would be amended to provide equal rights to Malaysian mothers to confer citizenship to children born abroad on par with Malaysian fathers. While the proposal has garnered support from the Malaysian public, controversy arises from the government's plans to couple this with other amendments that some argue risk perpetuating statelessness, especially for children. What would happen should these amendments come to pass? Zaid Malek of Lawyers for Liberty weighs in on the issue.

Around 3 million Bengali Pakistanis now live in Pakistan it is estimated and a research project has been exploring their experiences, mixing oral testimony and art projects with analysis of recent history. Humera Iqbal explains their findings to presenter Sarah Jilani. And Ahmad Naji Bakhti discusses his novel about the dreams of a boy growing up in Lebanon and how writing it in exile in Wales has led him to reflect on the language and phrasing he uses and what audience he is addressing. Humera Iqbal is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at University College London. Her project is called Partition of Identity https://poistudy.com/ and has led to a film called BHASHAILI (ADRIFT) (2023) directed and produced by: Jawad Sharif and produced by: Humera Iqbal, Syeda Kashmala, Anushay Malik based on their research work and that of Maria Rashid. It is being screened at Rich Mix as part of the Being Human Festival on November 16th https://richmix.org.uk/events/paper-boats-the-pakistani-bengali-story/ Ahmad Naji Bakhti is a lecturer in creative writing at Aberystwyth University and the author of a novel called Between Beirut and the Moon published by Influx Press. He is also working on a project with Syrian residents in Aberystwyth. Dr Sarah Jilani is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London, looking at post-colonial world literatures and film and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council to put research on the radio. This episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI.

In the 5th episode of this podcast series Franziska Maria Lamp speaks with Ismee Tames about the problems faced by stateless people and past approaches to improve their situation. This episode takes a closer look at the evolvement of the Nansen Passports during the interwar period and the work of the Nansen delegates all around the world. Redaktion: Franziska Maria Lamp & Philipp Strobl Produktion: Franziska Maria Lamp

In this podcast episode, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven speaks with Dr. Jordana Silverstein, cultural historian, and senior research fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, in the Melbourne Law School. They speak about her recently published groundbreaking book, Cruel Care: a history of children at our borders, that describes the treatment of child refugees at our borders. Talking Child Development is brought to you by the Association of Child and Family Development. References: www.acfd.com.au www.centreforchildandfamily.com

The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 00:09 AusDefi meetup yesterday; video to come https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1... 01:12 Anthony on Bankless livestream https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/st... 01:58 Tornado Cash lawsuit update https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/stat... 07:00 ACDE recap  https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1... 07:13 dencun-devnet-8 live https://twitter.com/parithosh_j/statu... 07:27 Devnet screenshot shows all is going well https://twitter.com/terencechain/stat... 10:10 Statelessness explained https://twitter.com/rudolf6_/status/1... 11:15 Clarifying staking terminology https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1... 16:27 Scroll beta Sepolia testnet live https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP/status... 19:21 Arbitrum Orbit AnyTrust Chains https://twitter.com/OffchainLabs/stat... 20:24 Rollup Economics Spells dashboard https://twitter.com/0xKofi/status/169... https://dune.com/niftytable/rollup-ec... 24:08 Connext token distribution details https://twitter.com/ConnextNetwork/st... 25:59 Liquity update & Oracle matrix https://twitter.com/LiquityProtocol/s... 28:36 CowSwap integrate TWAP orders https://twitter.com/CoWSwap/status/16... 30:31 Zeros perp. product emerges from stealth https://twitter.com/zarosfi/status/16... 32:10 Fire releasing wallet https://twitter.com/_joinfire/status/... 34:08 Market talk https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1... https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/16... This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cQqR27jTWaM Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.

In today's podcast, Justin Drake and Tim Beiko help us explore Ethereum's uncharted roadmap.  You know about EIP-4844. You know about Proposer-Builder Separation. But the Ethereum roadmap does not stop there. It continues! Each component of the Ethereum roadmap has deeper frontiers than what you may be familiar with. 4844, PBS, these are just the first stops on a longer track of Ethereum's Sci-Fi roadmap.  Other areas Justin, Tim, and David explore statelessness, how VCs are subsidizing Ethereum L1 R&D efforts, enshrined rollups, how all of this stuff leads to Ethereum needing fewer and fewer honest actors to work trustlessly, what quantum computing has to do with the Ethereum roadmap, trustless mempools and so much more.  -----

Following the amendment to the Federal Constitution to allow Malaysian mothers to confer automatic citizenship on children born overseas, equal to Malaysian fathers, we speak to Suri Kempe, President of Family Frontiers for more details over proposed amendments that could exacerbate child statelessnessImage by: Shutterstock

This week's Wonderspace comes from a conference in Madrid where last week over 220 people came together around the issue of statelessness organised by the European Network on Statelessness in collaboration with Fundación Cepaim.Statelessness is an issue that impacts over half a million people in Europe and many millions globally which you can hear more about in our 100th Wonderspace episode with the amazing Christiana Bukalo from Statefree.Someone described this issue of statelessness as the 'phenomenon of invisibility' and so being at this conference was for us at Wonderspace about keeping the issue visible by signposting to people, organisations and networks who are leading the way in this complex issue. We did this in Madrid by capturing short stories of hopefulness from 24 amazing people and organisations working in the stateless arena.To find out more go to the website of the European Network on Statelessness where you will also find a link to member organisations from across Europe. Their web link is www.Statelessness.eu. To view the episode page with a summary of the interview, links to social media and projects mentioned, go to https://ourwonder.space/episodes/_114

On this episode of Consider This, Melisa Idris speaks to the lead author of a report on statelessness in Peninsular Malaysia, Dr Melati Nungsari, Faculty Director of the ASEAN Research Centre, Associate Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business, and Research Affiliate at the MIT-Sloan School of Management. Formerly stateless ​​Wong Yew Lee joins the conversation to help us better understand the intersectional lived experience of a stateless person.

As a continuation of our last episode, Dr. Amarilys Estrella and Ana Maria Belique join for a discussion on anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic. Together, we discuss how the Dominican government has legitimized some of the conflict through state documentation, leaving generations of Dominicans and Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless  due to the 2013 Ruling 168/13.  Amarilys Estrella is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a faculty affiliate for the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University. Her research interests broadly focus on the intersections of race and gender within transnational movements, Black Latin American and Latinx identity, as well as human rights and anti-racist activism. Her first book project investigates how Blackness and Black identity, is produced, employed and transformed through everyday encounters among stateless Black grassroots activists of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic. In her article, “Muertos Civiles: Mourning the Casualties of Racism in the Dominican Republic” she examines mourning as a practice of resistance within anti-racist movements. In her blogpost “Black Latinx Encuentros: Embodied Knowledge and Reciprocal Forms of Knowledge Sharing” Estrella and her colleague Dr. Meryleen Mena explore the importance of encuentros, understood as meetings or collective forums where Black Feminists throughout the Americas create spaces for intellectual and personal reciprocity enabling us to connect across our similarities and differences. Ana María Belique is a founding member and leader of Reconoci. do, a movement that mobilizes and empowers Dominicans of Haitian descent and campaigns for equality and citizenship rights. She studied Sociology and specializes in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean studies from CLACSO. Her activism focuses on the fight for the restitution of the right to nationality of Dominicans of Haitian descent affected by ruling 168-13 of the Dominican Constitutional Court, as well as promoting the empowerment of the Dominican population of Haitian descent residing in Dominican bateyes. In addition, she founded the initiative for women and girls, MUÑECAS NEGRAS RD initiative, which offers a learning space to break the patterns imposed on black Dominican women. She coordinated the publication of two books, Nos Cambió La Vida (Our Transformed Lives) and "Somos Quien Somos," which document the stories of members of the Reconoci. do. She recently coordinated the Critical Training Space for Dominicans of Haitian descent. Ana María Belique has visited various international academic spaces where she talks about the reality of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the DR, human rights, Afro-descendants, and the experience of working with women in the bateyes. She was a visiting student at Columbia University in the Human Rights Advocacy Program 2022-2023 cohort.Support the showConnect with Strictly Facts - Instagram | Facebook | TwitterLooking to read more about the topics covered in this episode? Subscribe to the newsletter at www.strictlyfactspod.com to get the Strictly Facts Syllabus to your email!Produced by Breadfruit Media

Claddy: actress and icon, community organiser Tori on 'Queer Joy is for Everyone', and Dr Jordana Silverstein's new publication 'Cruel Care'.  3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nations – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty. Claddy is a jazz singer, DJ, producer, booker, events progammer, actress and icon in the Naarm creative scene. She joined us earlier this week to chat about her latest role as Tanya in M-wan-gaza Theatre Company's 'Bare: the musical' and what it feels like to work in a production that truly honors diversity and cultural safety. We also spoke about the Bare cast bonding over Alicia Keyes, racism in the music industry, creating your own safer spaces, and showing up consistently with community. You can catch Bare: The Musical by Mwangaza Theatre Company at the Wyndham Cultural Centre for a limited show run from June 1, 2, & 3. You don't wanna miss it!  Queer community organiser Tori joins us to talk about tomorrow's event 'Queer Joy is for Everyone' which is being held at Warrawee Park in Oakleigh to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in the face of anti-queer and anti-trans threats to shut down public expressions of queer life. The event is being held in the wake of several councils, most recently the City of Monash, deciding to cancel their drag queen storytime event because of threats of violence from conservative campaigners and far right groups. Find out more and get involved in tomorrow's queer community celebration here, and support the Glitterific Gay Gathering Fund here.  Dr Jordana Silverstein, historian and Senior Research Fellow at Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, speaks with us about her new book 'Cruel Care', an eye-opening exploration of the construction and violent governance of child refugees in Australian law and policy. Cruel Care asks provocative questions about how policymakers are shaped by, and in turn shape, their histories, communities and the nation, and draws our attention to the importance of situating these concerns within ongoing settler colonialism in so-called Australia. It is a clarion call for better treatment for all who seek asylum on this continent. Cruel Care is published by Monash University Press.  Songs:Took the Children Away - Archie Roach

The Pemba live along the Indian Ocean, on the Kenyan coast. They arrived in the 1930s and have since been stateless – living without title deeds, social security, access to studies or fishing permits. But this is changing, as the Kenyan government has now officially recognised this community of several thousand people. The steps allowing the Pemba to obtain Kenyan citizenship have begun and they will receive their identity cards in a few months' time. It's a chance at a new life for a community that has been marginalised for 90 years. Our correspondents report.

The United Nations is appealing for nearly $900 million to help Rohingya who've fled to Bangladesh from their native Myanmar. So, how will the international community respond? And can the Rohingya ever hope for an end to the stateless limbo they're trapped in? Join host Mohammed Jamjoom. Guests: Razia Sultana - Founder of RW Welfare Society, a women's rights organisation.  Matthew Smith - Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Fortify Rights, a human rights organization. Regina De La Portilla - UNHCR Communication Officer for Cox's Bazar.

Today we reach the milestone of 100 Wonderspace Podcast episodes. Over the past two and a half years we have welcomed guests from over 50 cities around the world who have all shared their wonders and stories of hopefulness. We have decided to use our 100th episode to amplify the issue of STATELESSNESS which impacts over five hundred thousand people in Europe and over fifteen million worldwide. To bring the issue alive, we asked our six Wonderspace questions to an extraordinary and inspiring woman called Chistiana Bukalo from Germany who founded Statefree and is herself stateless. We also feature Chris Nash who is the Director of The European Network on Statelessness. We would love you to consider listening to this special 20 min episode and sharing it out as a way of bringing attention to an issue that is rarely talked about. To find out more go to https://www.statelessness.eu and https://statefree.world Thanks to all our amazing Wonderspace guests and to the team at Ask Nature and the Biomimicry Institute who have provided weekly moments of wonder. Finally thanks to Dan Potter and Sam Cole who have edited, designed and produced every episode. You can listen to all 100 episodes at https://ourwonder.space Here's to many more orbits! Love, Steve Cole (host) James Perry and the Panahpur Trustees (Wonderspace is an expression of Panahpur) To view the episode page with a summary of the interview, links to social media and projects mentioned, go to https://ourwonder.space/episodes/_100

All too often, people equate their nationality with a particular state. Yet, as Mises noted, nationality does not depend at all upon a formal entity tied to a government. Original Article: "Nationality and Statelessness: The Kuwaiti Bidoon" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. '

All too often, people equate their nationality with a particular state. Yet, as Mises noted, nationality does not depend at all upon a formal entity tied to a government. Original Article: "Nationality and Statelessness: The Kuwaiti Bidoon" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. '

In this episode, Ella discusses the complex issues facing stateless people. She shows how international legal systems often make citizenship difficult for these people. Ella also provides potential solutions to these problems. If you enjoy the podcast please subscribe and share it with a friend. Follow us on our social media @wartimeaide. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wartimeaide/ ISI: https://www.institutesi.org/what-we-do Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mUPOGr2IxvvidW9G4r3cm2dIJBF0SRmBd06hL8pi7i4/edit?usp=drivesdk

James Guzman is an expat living in San Miguel de Allende, host of the highly influential Borderless Podcast and founder of the Borderless Blog. James is a pioneer in the international living, offshoring, and perpetual traveler movements.

Law & Behold is a monthly series which aims to arm Malaysians with constitutional literacy, and is done in collaboration with The Malaysian Bar, the University of Malaya's Faculty of Law, and the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights (MCCHR). This month, we speak to lawyers Larissa Ann Louis (Hakita) and Simon Siah (Lawyer Kamek for Change), who are both actively working to resolve issues on statelessness in Malaysia. Who are considered stateless in Malaysia, and what rights are denied to them? What legal safeguards are there in the Federal Constitution against statelessness, and how can someone who has been deemed stateless through no fault of their own - especially children - attempt to obtain Malaysian citizenship? We discuss what law and policy reforms on citizenship are needed, so that we can address the endless cycle of statelessness in Malaysia.Image credit: Reggie Lee/Shutterstock.com

The Pacific's tourism sector faces the challenge of finding workers and a new study finds the drug Ivermectin helps treat Scabies in Fiji

A new study says climate change could put Pacific Islanders at risk of losing their nationality and citizenship if countries in the region do not strengthen their laws.

MLOps Coffee Sessions #98 with Brannon Dorsey, Racing the Playhead: Real-time Model Inference in a Video Streaming Environment co-hosted by Vishnu Rachakonda. // Abstract Runway ML is doing an incredibly cool workaround applying machine learning to video editing. Brannon is a software engineer there and he's here to tell us all about machine learning in video and how Runway maintains their machine learning infrastructure. // Bio Brannon Dorsey is an early employee at Runway, where he leads the Backend team. His team keeps infrastructure and high-performance models running at scale and helps to enable a quick iteration cycle between the research and product teams. Before joining Runway, Brannon worked on the Security Team at Linode. Brannon is also a practicing artist who uses software to explore ideas of digital literacy, agency, and complex systems. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // Related Links Website: https://brannon.online Blog: https://runwayml.com/blog/distributing-work-adventures-queuing-and-autoscaling/ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Vishnu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrachakonda/ Connect with Brannon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brannon-dorsey-79b0498a/ Timestamps: [00:00] Introduction to Brannon Dorsey [00:56] Takeaways [05:42] Runway ML [07:00] Replacement for Imovie? [09:07] Machine Learning use cases of Runway ML [10:40] Journey of starting as a model zoo to video editor [14:42] Rotoscoping [16:23] Intensity of ML models in Runway ML and engineering challenges [19:55] Deriving requirements [23:10] Runway's model perspective [25:25] Why browser hosting? [27:19] Abstracting away hardware [32:04] Kubernetes is your friend [35:29] Statelessness is your friend [38:17] Merge to master quickly [42:57] Brannon's winding history becoming an engineer [46:49] How much do you use Runway? [49:37] Last book read [50:36] Last bug smashed [52:21] MLOps marketing that made eyes rolling [54:11] Bullish on technology that might surprise people [54:39] Spot by netapp [56:42] Implementing Spot by netapp [56:55] How do you want to be remembered? [57:22] Wrap up

Recorded and produced by Irfan on 22 October 2017, Delhi NCR Kaveri Urmil is a Ph D Scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai Her focus subject is Rohingya's issue Statelessness and Citizen's Crisis Photograph used in the covert art (Courtesy): Kevin Frayer Cover Art: Irfan --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sm-irfan/message

The panel is missing Kirsten on the 9th episode of the season but is joined in the last segment by State Press politics reporter and fellow Blaze member, Tori Gantz. The stories this week are: John discussing a recent PBS NewsHour story on statelessness and how it affects people's lives Haley giving a rundown of some of the highlights of the MLB's long-awaited opening day Gideon and Tori explaining the Starbucks unionization campaign, both locally in Arizona and the larger context (for more on the national context Tori provided, see this episode of NPR's Up First podcast and More Perfect Union's coverage on Twitter @MorePerfectUS) This episode was recorded on April 8th. You can find Tori and their work on Twitter, @GantzTori. The intro music is "Dedicated to the Press" by Betty Davis, the transition from the (unheard on the podcast version of this show) break is "Broadway Shing-A-Ling Part 1" by The Soulsations and the outro is "We Are Heading to the East" by springtide. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates on the show and to see if Tori ever returns, both are @review_squared. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thereviewsquared/message

This episode is a joint collaboration between Jus Cogens and the George Washington International Law Review at the George Washington University, as a prelude to the upcoming The George Washington International Law Review's Annual Symposium - "The State of the Nation-State in International Law" taking place on March 18 2022. Website: https://www.law.gwu.edu/george-washington-international-law-review-2022-symposium-state-nation-state-international-law. Contact: Ryan Migeed (Symposium Editor) @ symposium.gwilr@law.gwu.edu In this podcast, I am joined by Professor Milena Sterio and Dean Rosa Celorio (participants of the GWILR Symposium 2022 statehood panel) to discuss numerous aspects and issues relating to statehood and statelessness under international law. Our Socials: Twitter: @JCLawPodcast Blog: https://juscogens.law.blog/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JCLawPodcast

This is a conversation with Amro Ali, author of the essay "On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin." He is also co-president of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, and lecturer in sociology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes What we talked about: Moving from the centers to the peripheries Why Berlin? And not London, Paris, New York or Istanbul Berlin as an incomplete city and Germany's past Germany and the Arabs The Koblenz trial, accountability in Germany (but not in the Arab world) January 25 and the legacy of the Arab Spring for the exile body Home as the place where all attempts to escape cease Valuing public spaces Survivor's guilt and impostor's syndrome Challenges faced by Arabs and other non-white people in Berlin Meeting other Arabs for the first time in Europe The need for a connection between Berlin and other capitals, such as Beirut or Tunis Politics of language and the use of Arabic in the diaspora Recommended Books: City of Exiles: Berlin from the outside in by Stuart Braun Representations of the Intellectual by Edward W. Said Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib Resources Mentioned: The Der Spiegel article: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/witness-defendant-deserter-case-in-germany-raises-questions-about-how-to-try-assad-s-atrocities-a-43d2817e-d85b-4378-b158-0c5001c345eb Branch 251 Podcast Previous episodes mentioned: My Father and Syria's Forcibly Disappeared (With Wafa Mustafa) Space Travel, Nostalgia, and Retrofuturism (With Nat Muller) That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon (With Hamed Sinno) Why I stopped writing about Syria (With Asser Khattab) Queerness, Literature and Revolution (With Saleem Haddad)

Um über das Konstrukt Staatenlosigkeit oder statelessness sprechen und für das Verständnis haben wir erst einmal über Nationalstaaten, Bürgerschaft, Teilhabe und das internationale Staatssystem gesprochen. Wir klären erst einmal Dinge wie was einen Staat überhaupt ausmacht. Als die Imperien zerfallen und Souveränitäten neu geklärt werden müssen kommt die Kategorie Staatenlosigkeit auf. Eine rechtliche Definition gibt es dann in den 1950ern. Was bedeutet das konkret für Menschen? Wie setzen Staaten dies als Machtinstrument ein? Das könnt ihr euch in der heutigen Folge anhören. Wer Gast sein möchte, Fragen oder Feedback hat, kann dieses gerne an houseofmodernhistory@gmail.com oder auf Twitter an @houseofModHist richten. Literatur und Quellen: Agier, Michel: Forced migration and asylum: stateless citizens today. In: Cédric Audebert & Mohamed Kamel Doraï (eds): Migration in a Globalised World. New Research ISseus and Prospects. 183-190. Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1983. Angster, Julia; Gosewinkel, Dieter. Gusy, Christoph: Staatsbürgerschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Mohr Siebeck, 2019. Burki, Talha: Statelessness in the COVID-19 pandemic. World Report Vol 397 April 24, 2021. Colley, Linda: The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World. Liveright, 2021. Deutschlandfunkkultur, 2021: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/staatenlos-leben-in-deutschland-100.html Eliassi, Barzoo: Statelessness in a World of Nation-States (2016) 42 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Ferrer, Ada: Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic. The American Historical Review. Vol. 117, No. 1, 2012, S. 40-66. Kingston, Lindsey: Statelessness as a Lack of Functioning Citizenship (2014) 19 Tilburg Law Review. Lawrence, Benjamin N. & Stevens, Jaqueline (eds): Citizenship in Question. Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness. Duke University Press, 2017. Mau, Steffen: Sortiermaschinen: Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert. CH Beck, 2021. McGee, Thomas: The Stateless Kurds of Syria (2014) 19 Tilburg Law Review 171. Nicholls, David: Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804-1825). In: Archer, Léonie. Slavery : And Other Forms of Unfree Labour, Taylor & Francis Group, 1988. Razac, Olivier: Politische Geschichte des Stacheldraht. Prärie, Schützengraben, Lager. Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, 2003. Sköld, Nannie: Mapping a Sociology of Statelessness. Tilburg Law Review. Journal of International and European Law, 2019, 24(2), S. 217-223. Siegelberg, Mira L.: Statelessness. A Modern History. Harvard University Press, 2021. Vlieks, Caia; Ballin, Ernst Hirsch & Recalde Vela, María José: Solving statelessness: Interpreting the right to nationality. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 35(3), 2017, S. 158-179. Werner, Christine: Staatenlosigkeit. Ein Leben ohne Pass in Deutschland.

Dr. Lewis Eliot is a professor of History at the University of South Carolina. His research explores the intersection of anti-slavery and imperialism during the nineteenth century. Dr. Eliot's dissertation, Rebellion and Empire in Britain's Atlantic World, 1807-1884, analyzes how enslaved uprisings and the British Empire's response to them created a new strain of abolitionism. This new form of anti-slavery touted racial hierarchies and British authorities forced this ideology upon rivals in Europe, Latin America, and Africa in order to maintain white supremacy while the bonds of slavery loosened.    His research has been funded by the John Carter Brown Library, American Historical Association, Library Company of Philadelphia, Gilder Lehrman Institute, Walker Institute, and the University of South Carolina's History Department, Graduate School, and Office of the Vice-President for Research. In the 2019-2020 academic year he was a Bridge Humanities Corps Fellow.    He is the author of several articles including, “We Don't Recognize Your Freedom: Slavery, Imperialism, and Statelessness in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World” recently published in Atlantic Studies and "Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian Revolution". In this episode we explore how racism as it is experienced today has been constantly developing for the past 400 years and is a direct product of colonialism and imperialism. We explore how the Haitian Revolution affected the very nature of abolitionism in Western thought, ultimately instilling the race-based white supremacy that continues to this day.   You can check out the latter article here: https://activisthistory.com/2017/07/07/exultations-agonies-and-love-the-romantics-and-the-haitian-revolution/  #haitianrevolution #history #haiti

November 28th, 2021 - We're thrilled to announce a new video that shares about two sisters, Saifon and Panee! These young women are stateless, meaning they don't have any kind of national citizenship. Statelessness leaves them without the legal protections that governments give based on citizenship, and they are also denied access to many of the basic rights citizens enjoy. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thefreedomstory/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thefreedomstory/support

Do you know what a stateless person is? Someone where the country they are from doesn't recognize them as a citizen, often due to political or religious reasons. Today in the world there are around 10 MILLION stateless people. People that don't have the right to have a birth certificate, go to a regular school, hospital or have a death certificate. In this episode of The Belonging Project Podcast, we talk with Maha Mamo. Maha was one of them, her story is an example of #resilience #determinationand #perseverance. After so many attempts, she found a new home in Brazil and at 26 years old, she got her first official document and a citizenship. Maha Mamo is now a spokesperson for the UN #IBelong campaign in order to contribute to eradicating statelessness worldwide by changing the laws and giving more visibility. Links from this episode: The UN #IBelong campaign Maha's work and book Resources on statelessness Click here to connect with Andrea and Fiorenza!

Ferenc Laczo discusses with Mira Siegelberg her latest book "Statelessness", the story of a much-contested legal category.

In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Tiffany Mane (pronounced Man-neh) about Rule of Law development and how it affects not only the legal system but also cultural norms, social responsibility, communities, criminal justice, human rights, and more... Tiffany is a daughter of Dominican immigrants, the youngest of seven children and the first person in her family to graduate from law school. She is a Posse Foundation alumna and graduated from Dickinson College with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies. She graduated from Howard University School of Law in 2018 with her Juris Doctor and is currently enrolled in a Master of Laws program in Rule of Law Development at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She is the co-author of a UN report on the issue of statelessness in the Dominican Republic (publication pending.) That experience led her to pursue her true passion, which lies in rule of law development. She is an avid reader and is also into all things health, wellness and interior design. I hope you found this episode interesting and inspiring as well. Follow me and subscribe to my podcast and be sure to follow Paralegally Speaking on Facebook and Instagram.  Until next time!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why Statelessness Is On the Rise GloballyGuest: Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority IssuesAround the world there are at least 10 million people who are “stateless,” according to the United Nations. Which means, they belong nowhere. They're not simply refugees or individuals living without citizenship status in a country. These stateless individuals have no “home” to go back to, even if they wanted to. How the Chinese Government Controls InformationGuest: Margaret (Molly) Roberts, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San DiegoThe ongoing –and increasingly violent –pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are testing China's ability to censor information within its borders. Outside of China it's easy to find social media posts and news articles that depict the Hong Kong protestors as young people exercising their democratic right to demand more freedom. Inside China, the government controls the media and censors the internet, so people are more likely to encounter the Chinese government's official take on the Hong Kong protestors –which is that they're terrorists provoked by the West. Fighting Loneliness in Seniors with Virtual RealityGuest: Kyle Rand, Cofounder and CEO of RendeverMany elderly people have lost mobility and the strength to travel, and that can leave them feeling isolated and depressed. Moving into a care facility can also make some feel like they've lost their freedom. But a virtual reality program is giving seniors new life and inspiration. All they have to do is strap on a pair of goggles, and they can do things they normally couldn't like going scuba diving, visiting their childhood home, or seeing the Eiffel Tower. Canada Now Leads the World in Refugee Resettlement. America Used to Hold That Title. What's Changed?Guest: Geoffrey Cameron, Research Associate, Global Migration Lab at the University of Toronto and author of the forthcoming book, “Send Them Here: Religion and the Politics of Refugee Resettlement”Since President Trump took office, the United States has steadily taken in fewer refugees. Last week, the Trump Administration announced a limit of 18,000 who will be allowed to resettled in America next year. That's down from a cap of 110,000 two years ago. What that means is that for the first time in 30 years, the United States no longer leads the world in refugee resettlement. Canada now takes in more refugees than we do. Why Isn't There a National Weather Service App?Guest: J. Marshall Shepherd, professor of geography and atmospheric sciences at the University of GeorgiaOne of the first things I do in the morning is check the weather app on my phone to see what I should wear that day. Like me, more and more people are getting weather information from apps, and there are plenty to choose from. That is, unless you're looking for one directly from the US National Weather Service–the weather information source paid for by our taxes. Unlike some other countries, our weather service doesn't have an app. What Do We Do with Confederate Monuments?Guest: Andrea Douglas, PhD, Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage CenterCity officials in Charlottesville, Virginia would like to remove two prominent statutes in public parks –one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the other of Stonewall Jackson. When white supremacists marched in Charlottesville two years ago and murdered a counter-protester, they said they were defending the General Lee monument. Why can't the city just take them down? Because Virginia, like many southern states, has a law that prohibits removal of war memorials and a judge says these monuments are covered by that law.  

Join Roger Berkowitz as he talks with Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her new book, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century, including Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, and many others.