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hey hey what's up guys it's Syndicate ii here bringing you part 2 of my

settlement build here in spectacle Island now what we're gonna be doing in

this video is showcasing and showing you guys how I finished off the pier that we

left off in part 1 I'm going to show you guys how it can connect to the city that

I'm planning on making and how at least had a glorious settlement that I ended

up making I hope you guys liked that teaser that I showed in the beginning of

the video because that's what the settlement looks like as of right now I

recorded everything and I'm planning on making future videos of my thought

process about it explaining it and then finally showcasing it and that's gonna

be in the future so please look forward to that but for now let's finish this

pier and let's show you guys what I came up with let's go

now wherever ye last left off we completed the pier itself but it wasn't

completely done it was probably like 3/4 done we made jell cells we made a

slavery area at the very end of the pier we made a marketplace in the middle and

what was left was the entranceway and so what I started with was making a little

aside from the market a little place where everyone can hang out so basically

an outside bar and I think it came out fairly nice yeah so let's see what we do

here I'll show you guys my thought process yeah let's go so from here on

out I kind of a thought of a way to make the bar like a little base part of the

bar and I found these wall and roof platforms that I can put in it was

simple enough as soon as I added them Ian and I kind of knew the base of how

the bars gonna look as you can see that's gonna be where the staging area

is where where the bar itself is gonna be and around that would be where I

would put my tables and chairs and all of that stuff

I added a little bit of fencing so there's a actual area for the bar and

yeah it came out pretty decent

you

the base of the bar our peer is looking correct and so what I started to do was

plan out how I was going to connect it to the base of the city that I'm

planning on making and as you can see there's hills facing me right now and I

figured the best way to find a flat ground was to build up and then add

platforms around our foundations around to flatten out the ground so I can start

building there yeah those cliffs were like really blockers build blockers I

guess and so after I made the stairs I kind of got a better understanding of

the levels of the city or the future city the levels of the future city and

so after making the stairs I added some foundation luckily in this

mod I found some castle foundations that look so clean and I started building

around it building the shape and the base of our entire city and yeah so I'm

probably going to fast forward hit but I gradually show you in this video how I

start making the platforms and stuff so yeah let's get into it

after getting a nice feel of the whole pier and the second level of the area I

decided to go a little bit higher making a third level so that's where my final

base of the city is going to be because there's still a little bit of hills

there I'm trying to find common flat ground so I just decided to go higher

and from here oh and I decided to expand and make a third level yeah

so everything is starting to come together at this point and since we have

all that empty space here on the second level I was trying to figure out what

type of building I can add here maybe some towers lighthouse maybe but yeah

it's just me basically experimenting on what I should do what i ended up doing

here on the second level you'll see in the later video is i ended up making it

into guard stations guard stations and then on the side of it was a little

place where the guards would sleep like a tent area where guards will sleep but

yeah so that's the second level and for this final part of the video I'm gonna

be showing you guys how I made a building on the third level and what I

decided to do was make since you're coming off from the end I mean from the

pier that I thought that the next building that you should have once you

get to the main city was a place where you could sleep and so I made a little

factory or a warehouse where you know people could eat and drink at the bottom

but upstairs people can sleep and that was the next building I made after

showing you guys how I ended up with that I'm gonna show you guys a final

showcase of the pier and it will conclude part two of this awesome

build so yeah enjoy

so after widening the foundation and flattening it out some more I went

straight into making the in it took me a while experimenting on the best way to

make that in and it took me quite some time it took me like 30 minutes to

figure out how I wanted the end I wanted it to be high enough as well as have

balconies so I can see towards the pier and yeah it took me some experimenting

so here it is

you

so after making the n comes the last part of part 2 of this settlement billed

for spectacle Island which is the second

level to the pier as I said before I make this I decide to make this into a

guard station you know so there's gonna be guards guarding the pier leading into

the city as well as their little quarter space where they can sleep and stuff

yeah so let's get into it

so we've completed a pier and we couldn't pleaded making the foundations

for the second and the third level leading into the city and so what's left

to do now is to show the showcase of the completed pier yeah I hope you guys

enjoy and make sure you like and subscribe and comment down below what

you guys think of this build and yeah and stay tuned for the next ones yeah

enjoy peace

you

and yeah that's gonna do it as you can see I added a lot of people already and

this place has gotten really Lively

yeah and so this is the pier of this island I don't know what yet to name it

I guess I'll think about it in the future well yeah I got hope you guys

just really enjoyed it and I'll catch you guys on the next

video I'm going to be showing you guys future stuff as you can see here but

yeah once again don't forget to Like and subscribe if you liked the video and if

you want to follow through with this build I am going to be making more

videos about it so yeah I'll catch you guys later peace out and much love peace

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How to build a home automation auto-away assist with Azure IoT Hub | Azure Makers Series - Duration: 8:41.

>> Today we're going

to take a look

at the Auto-Away-Assist-for-Nest-Thermostat project.

This will let your Nest know when you're in another room,

and assist with the Auto-Away feature

so that you don't find yourself in

a situation where the Nest has

determined that you are not

home when you in fact are home.

We're going to accomplish this by

using a Particle Photon Device,

a PIR sensor, and

some free services from Microsoft Azure.

To get started, you'll want to head to aka.ms/nestassist.

Which will bring you to this page,

the GitHub repository for

the Auto-Away-Assist-for-Nest-Thermostat project.

We're going to head over to the link to

the full instructions on

walkthrough guide available at hackster.io.

Now, you might be wondering why I'm building this device.

Because Nest devices are smart.

Right? They are able to determine when

we're home using a variety of different features.

These include motion-sensing,

they also can detect if a,

cellular devices on the same network as the Nest and

they use all these other heuristics

to determine whether you're home.

In practice, that doesn't always work out properly.

There's been numerous occasions where I find myself

upstairs in my office and the AC is turned off,

because the Nest devices have determined,

because either the sensors have not been trigger,

or maybe my cell phone is off, that I'm not home.

Then I find myself sweating in the Texas heat,

it's just not fun.

So, Nest is aware of this issue,

and has created a motion-sensor and monitoring thermostat

that alleviate these problems however,

they only work with the Nest V3 Thermostats.

What we're going to build today though,

will work with any Nest Thermostats

as we're going to interact directly with

the API using our own hardware

to tell Nest that we are in fact home.

So, the first thing we're going to need to do,

is obtain an Oauth Token to access the Nest API.

Now, for security reasons,

I'm not going to walk through these details in the video,

but you would follow through this in

the guide and once completed,

you should have an Oauth Token instructure ID parameter,

which we will be referencing again later on in the video.

Next we're going to construct the hardware.

You can use any compatible Particle device,

I chose the Particle Photon.

You could even use the Particle Core,

or the recently launched Particle Xenon.

Once you've got your device picked out,

simply attach the PIR sensor with the three wires,

and make sure that you have

the data line connected to the D0 pin.

With all that up and connected,

I'm going to go ahead and put my device online,

and I'm going to open up Visual Studio Code,

and open into the Nest motion folder.

From here you'll see the nest-motion.ino firmware,

and I'm going to initiate a task

with "Control" "Shift" "P",

and select "Particle Cloud Flash".

This will flash that Nest motion

I know firmware to the Particle device,

should see any moment now

that it's going to flash magenta,

and then restart running my code.

In a nutshell, all this code does is it looks

at the sensor and when it detects motion,

it publishes an events to the

Particle Cloud then goes into

a deep sleep for

a sleep interval that can be

specified with this constant.

Now, that's great. We're getting motion data,

and publishing that up to Particle.

But we need to get that data over to

Nest in order to really tell our devices that will home.

So, to do that, I'm going to head to

the "Particle Console" and

select "Integrations" and from here,

you would select a new "Azure IoT

Hub Integration" and these are

pretty straightforward to set up,

all it requires is an Azure account.

Then you would create an Azure IoT Hub and add

a shared access policy to allow

the Particle Cloud to communicate with the Azure Cloud.

So, I have one set up already.

That's flashed to the device that we just saw,

and you can see that it is publishing

those motion events up to Particle.

Now, to forward these over to Nest,

what we're going to do is create

an Azure function that really does nothing more than

on a triggered event calls the Nest API using

our appropriate credentials and sets the status to home.

So, to do this, we're going to open up

the set Nest or

the Nest Controller folder within the repo.

Then we're going to look at the SetNestToHome function.

So, inside here there's a local.settings.json file,

and we're going to need to fill in the "Access Token" in

structure ID placeholders with

the values that we obtained from the Nest API.

Then the Event Hub compatible endpoint,

we're going to obtain

that value by heading to our "IoT Hub",

selecting "Built-in end points",

and then grabbing the Event Hub,

compatible endpoint value.

Once you have those, you can go ahead and set them,

and then look at the function.json file.

From here, we just need to change

the event hub name placeholder to

the name of our IoT hub.

So, in this case, mine is named Nest Motion Sensor.

Once we have all of that set up,

we can go ahead and deploy the Azure function

locally to test it before we push it into the Cloud.

So, I'm going to select

this attached to JavaScript functions button

and that's going to kick off

a local deployment of the function.

Once that's up and running,

we can initiate a motion events with the device.

So, I'm just going to stimulate the PIR sensor here.

That should fire an event.

Once that happens, the device will turn off,

and we are now located on

a breakpoint that I've set inside the function itself.

So, you can see here,

this is a great way to test

these things before pushing them up to the Cloud.

Let's just make sure that it works.

So, I've got my Nest manager open,

and you'll see that my current status is set to away.

I'm going to walk through the rest of this function code.

That should trigger, the call to

Nest API and you'll see that it is now flipped to home.

You might even hear the air conditioners

turning on behind me.

So, this is awesome. But it's not the final step.

We have to publish this function up into the Azure Cloud,

so that it can run 24/7,

and then we can flash this code to

a number of devices and deploy them all around

the house and never ever have to worry about

being told that we're not home when we actually are.

So, to do that, right-click the "SetNestToHomeFolder",

and click "Deploy to Function App",

and if you have not already

created an Azure function app,

it's going to ask you to create one.

So, I'm going to use this one that I've already

created the Nest Motion Sensor.

It's going to go ahead and prompt you to deploy,

and that will kick off the task that

begins that deployment to your Azure account.

So, once you've done that deployment,

you can log into your Azure function,

in the Azure portal,

and we're going to test it.

Because we want to make sure that it works so,

inside of this "SetNestToHome folder",

there is a sample.dat file,

and you can just copy the whole contents

of that to your clipboard.

We're going to use this to

test that the function really works.

So, if we click on the "SetNestToHome" function

that was published and click on the "Test Window",

we can paste it into the request body section

and click "Run",

and this will trigger

our function as though it

was triggered with a real event.

You'll see triggered away status set to home.

FunctionSetNest to home succeeded. This is great.

That means that we are ready to rock and roll,

flash devices put them all around the house,

and never ever have to worry about Nest being wrong,

about whether or not we're home again.

So, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Again I want to highlight that,

you can get the hardware for

these devices at particle.io.

All of the services that we've used

here are free on Microsoft Azure.

So, you can set up a free tier IoT hub,

that'll give you up to 8,000

events per month without any charge.

Which is sufficient for

numerous devices around the house,

and also the Azure function which you can trigger up to I

believe it's multiple thousands of

executions before it would incur charges,

and you can solve

this problem with Nest Thermostat not knowing when

you're home simply by

leveraging these technologies in your home,

for around a cost of $20.

So, it's excellent. I hope you've enjoyed this.

So, feel free to leave some messages on the comments

For more infomation >> How to build a home automation auto-away assist with Azure IoT Hub | Azure Makers Series - Duration: 8:41.

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How To Build A Shoe Bench | Woodworking DIY - Duration: 12:43.

today we're gonna make two very similar shoe benches two different ways one is

hardwood and the other is gonna be made of half-inch plywood I want to call them

the hard way and the easy way but I don't really know how accurate that is

the hard one definitely requires more tools and more complex cuts but the easy

one probably requires more thinking ahead and planning semantics aside let's

get to work both of these projects started out at Reel Lumber just like

pretty much every other project does getting my materials so I suppose the

easy way here would be just grabbing some plywood I'm gonna be using

half-inch Baltic birch and one sheet will be more than enough for a project

like this and the hard way would be grabbing some hard wood so picking out

boards that work for your project probably needing to calculate your

materials beforehand a bit and all that good stuff in fact this is a question

that I get asked a lot so I'm gonna make a highlighted story on my Instagram page

that goes a little bit into my lumber buying history and recommendations so I

won't take up any more time here but if you're interested in learning more about

it check it out over there

so back in the shop I could get to work I started out by assessing my materials

to figure out the most efficient way to use it and then I started milling first

I needed to get one of the phases nice and flat on my jointer

and you guys have seen me do this in plenty of different videos but I think

it actually came off better on camera here than normal so I'm gonna pause the

video for a second and you can see what I'm trying to achieve so you see how the

material is curved well you want to run the pieces where that concave faces down

and the first couple of passes should only be removing material from the ends

let's back up and watch it again

so when you're doing this you don't want to push down you want to let the bend

kind of naturally remove itself and you'll know that you're good when the

jointer is cutting across the entire length of the board once that was done I

turned my piece on edge and jointed one of the sides and then I could take

everything over to the planer and mill it to a finished thickness of one inch

with the plywood version we're gonna be doing almost exactly the opposite the

material comes at a perfect even thickness so there's no need to mill but

we actually need to make the pieces thicker in this case just like with the

hardwood version we're gonna be using one-inch thick pieces and the plywood is

1/2 of an inch so we'll rip out a bunch of strips some are gonna be one inch

wide some are two inches wide those will be for the legs and some will be about

three inches wide at this point but they'll get trimmed down later and

they'll make the leg stretchers and we're gonna laminate all of these

together to make a bunch of pieces that are an inch thick

for the hardwood in terms of ripping we're doing almost the exact same thing

cutting out a bunch of one-inch wide strips for the slots 2 inch wide strips

for the legs and slightly wider strips that will be trimmed down later for the

stretchers on the leg

so with all of our pieces cut to width and thickness next we could start

refining I'm gonna start with my legs by cross-cutting my two pieces into four

and then setting this Rockler crosscut sled to 15 degrees and using a stop

block to create four identical legs that'll all lean in at 15 degrees

okay back to the plywood bench this is where this one's gonna temporarily jump

a heading complexity for a minute while we make the legs so I'm gonna

start pretty much the same way as we did with the hardwood version cutting out

four legs that are angled in at 15 degrees but to build up the joinery I

needed to create a bunch of short pieces to laminate them on and this will

probably be easier to explain with a quick animation so we have our four

equal pieces this is just one of them onto the bottom we're gonna laminate one

short piece then we'll use a spacer piece to laminate on a middle piece and

that's going to leave us with the dado that our stretcher will sit in

eventually and that's what the slats are gonna sit on top of then on top of the

middle piece we'll do the same thing before laminating on a top piece and

that'll complete the leg back in the real world to make this go quicker

I'm just using glue and a finish nailer to hold everything together so if you

wanted to make it a little cleaner or avoid having to fill nail holes you

could just use glue and then clamp them

while we're here let's also cut out stretcher pieces and to do that we're

going to tilt our blade to 15 degrees and make a series of rips so that we end

up with a stretcher piece shaped like a parallelogram and then we can cross cut

4 of them to equal length and assemble the leg pieces

and by now we've sort of leapfrog to the hardwood version so let's jump back

there and play catch-up and here we'll actually start by setting our blade to

15 degrees to make those parallelogram stretchers again and then in this shot

you can see a little bit more detail about how to make them perfectly sized

which is actually pretty easy you just make your first cut on one edge and then

use your leg piece to strike the line where the second cut should be to match

the width and then make the cut

next I use my stretcher piece to mark out where I need to cut some dedos into

my leg pieces and then I transferred those marks onto all four legs and once

everything was marked out I used my table saw to make the dedos with several

passes stopping as I got close to the limit to check the fit until it was just

right and on these cuts the thing that you want to be careful of is making sure

that you realize that two of the legs need to be mirrored versions of the

other two so you'll tilt your miter gauge 15 degrees one way for two of them

and then 15 degrees the other way for the other two and if you do it right you

should end up with eight perfectly sized a toes that are really strong

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with our leg assemblies done we could finalize our slots which will basically

involve cutting them to length and cutting in some joinery and actually

regret doing it the way that I did so I'm gonna go over it and then show you

what I should have done to make my life easier and what I would recommend you do

for the joinery I left my blade tilted to 15 degrees and again made a series of

passes to create a little dado that would fit over the stretcher of the leg

and this is where I wish that I had done something different basically I wish

that instead of putting the dado in the slat piece I'd put it in the stretcher

piece and in case you're having trouble visualizing this there's a little

animation that shows you what I mean so this is how I did it and this is how I

wish that I had done it the main reason is it would just be way easier to cut

because you wouldn't have to tilt the blade to make the dado and the geometry

of it all would be a lot easier to solve so there's less chances for mistake you

could actually make the case that the way that I did it is a superior joint

because it's creating a physical lock that holds the stretchers in relation to

one another but honestly this piece isn't going to be subjected to a whole

lot of stress and I trust that the glues more than enough for this application

anyhow regrets aside after I glued on the bottom slats I took more

measurements for the top slots cut in the joinery and then I could assemble

everything

right back to the easy version here again I'm gonna cut the slots to length

by putting a 15 degree angle on either end and then I'm gonna assemble

everything here with no joinery just glue and actually to support my feeling

that the joinery I used on the hardwood version was overly complex I've had this

plywood version for about a year now and the glue still holding no problem so

whether you decide to build this one the easy way or the hard way the good news

is no matter what finishing is gonna be simple at least a few simple finish all

right full disclosure so this is the finish that Mike Montgomery from modern

builds venue ADA from homemade modern and I have been developing together and

honestly I couldn't be happier with it it gives a really good result it's all

natural and best of all it's super simple to apply and basically foolproof

you just wipe it on let the oil penetrate for about 20 minutes

wipe on another coat let it absorb again for about 20 minutes and then wipe off

the excess that hasn't absorbed into the wood the oil penetrates and hardens and

leaves a smooth backstop coat for extra protection so I'll admit that I'm biased

since its kind of my baby but I really do think that you'll love it as much as

I do and also if you have used it comment and tell me what you think about

it we're always looking to improve and we want and need honest feedback from as

many people as we can get

all right so there it is two ways to build a shoe bench I'm still not sure

that the easy way in the hard way are the most accurate ways to describe them

I would say that the hardwood version is slightly more advanced in terms of

actually fabricating all the pieces but it actually might be a little bit more

simple conceptually I don't know who's this an easy hard simple complex

advanced they're all just adjectives each is subjective to an individual's

talents and situations as the next maybe I should just call them my way or the

ply way I'll show myself out special thanks to Brandon Savage David Klieman

and the rest of my patreon supporters for making these videos possible you all

are the number one thing that keeps this show going

simply put I couldn't do it without you and every little bit makes a huge

difference so for everything that you've given me thank you seriously and if you

want to support the show to check out the patreon link in the description see

if it's right for you and as always no pressure

alright see in the next one

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Building a Global Solidarity Campaign for Rohingya - Duration: 1:24:17.

Great. Welcome. This is Chaumtoli Huq.

I'm the Editor of Law at the Margins.

Law@theMargins is a creative law and media platform.

The goal of Law@theMargins is to

lift up social justice around the world.

It is to lift up stories and narratives that

oftentimes ignored in mainstream media as well as mainstream advocacy.

Tonight, we're really excited to be able to host and facilitate a conversation and an

important one around the Rohingya crisis and some will say ruling it genocide the

issues that we're going to hear about are from activists from different parts

of the United States based in Canada regarding the Rohingya issue both in

Myanmar are firmly Burma as well as issues regarding the refugees we welcome

everyone that's participating the what we see this conversation as starting is

to facilitate and to coordinate all of our support work for the community so

that we can lift that up both at multiple levels whether it's United

Nations local advocacy work support humanitarian efforts so that we can

really work together I'm really excited to have our three sort of panelists

today and the goal is really to get us involved and activated on to support the

community I'm going to introduce our panelists they're going to speak for 15

minutes I'll be chatting with our participants those of you who are

registered if you are actively working around this issue let us know tell us in

the chat box we're also thankful to have our associate editor Shahana Hanif we'll

be tweeting with the hashtag remain just solidarity so follow the conversation

there as well so first we're I'm going to have a Myra dog a pal who is a Korean

human right activist herself formerly an internally

displaced person as well as a refugee for 17 years and now the executive

director of the u.s. campaign for Burma and DC she's been active as a Korean

women's organization she has also been active around multiple fronts in terms

of foreign policy advocacy for all communities in in Myanmar and she's

going to give us a little bit about the history of this conflict as well as how

it impacts other communities next we're really excited to have Ahmed Musa ruin

Jay activist who was born in the refugee camp in Bangladesh and is now a

community advocate in Canada he's residing there with his mother and

sister and as a an activist based in in Canada he's been doing some amazing work

around theater and arts and I hope that he will share with us about his theatre

production I am I am and finally but not least we have Adam Carroll he's

currently in New York and the United Nations program director for the Burma

task force USA with the background in human rights and advocacy adam has

worked for five years in Islamic circle in North America after the 9/11 attacks

and he's been a exclusively working around Burma support work and will share

with us some action that we can take in United States to support the ring Joe so

with that I welcome each of our guests I welcome all of those who are listening

in please joining me and on the chat box on the side as we listen to each of our

activists after the panel we're going to hear a take your question and answer and

think about what we can do to really bring about what the title of this

webinar is global solidarity for the Ranger community with that I'd like to

invite Myra to start us off welcome Myra hi everyone thank you

please let me know if I run out of time I don't want to take up and take away

anybody's time so so firstly I wanted to making sure that everyone I'm talking

about today so basically the whole idea the hope that my main purpose for the

talk tonight is firstly to making sure that you understand where the problem

comes from and how maybe how we can collectively help out little ways so the

Burma you know now is not the Burma that actually has been why the reason I say

that is that perhaps many people don't know that Burma has having that

institutionalized discrimination policy ever since 1948 as soon as they gained

independence from the British and the copmi the Burmese military came up with

the policy that is we call it that is known as Burman ization basically well

set up the whole idea is to assimilate non Burmese ethnic groups into the

Burman ethnic group so basically to turn everyone into Burman including me Quran

or the brother who love their religion as we don't accept those and that is

what we become their enemy and we've been persecuted ever since and the

persecution has been going on ever since 1948 where they started implementing

this piece of policy but many of you will be asking in the back of your head

why it has to be this the minute the very understanding quite to were power

and greed because for as long as they have the power then they can control

everybody and for as long as they can control land which are their region

and natural resources not just natural resources but human resources then they

owns everything and so with that I create the divide and rule policy where

we don't even know each other let alone have I known for hinge on 30 years ago

know what didn't all is because of the divided and rule policy that keeps us

away from each other we don't even know each other I mean I knew but like 15 15

to 17 years ago when I started doing an advocacy work and so the persecution on

the ethnic minority has been going on ever since like you heard the the

introduction of and in turn led person I was born in as an internally displaced

person and then a refugee so I had never had an dean card I've never been a

Burmese person in my own country let alone

I call myself and so people a lot of people like me are in many other ethnic

states the only difference is that the Burmese government cannot really ignore

the fact that cannot lie to the world the fact that we are not the people of

Burma all is because our leaders they trying to maintain control and fight

back whether they get it or not they are trying to fight back for our own

self-determination and that is why the control of the area and then we can

still maintain part of our life and our culture our language and all these stuff

why I'm giving you all these stuff when we're talking about religion is we're

supposed to I supposed to talk about Indian issues is yet to give you between

our situation and the way the religion is somewhat

very different they have never had a chance to establish themselves though

because 1962 and the military dictator came into power they have their own

leadership to govern to organize their own people but all a certain the night

the military dictator came into power and literally trying to wipe them out

and that is why you many of you who follow the issues back in late mid to

late 70s you have like hundreds of thousands of her hidden people pouring

into Bangladesh because of the pushed out and then coming 1982 literally the

Burmese military dictators came out with the citizenship law that does not even

allow the rehidden people to become the citizens and it's not just that I'm

pretty sure you all follow my freedom of mobilization freedom to education to

health to anything that everybody can have access to they don't have those

excess but how other ethnic is also helped yes listen you don't have get to

hear much about it is because to a certain extent because of our own area

our own places where we run our own school our own spaces and that is why we

have the opportunity to educate people in our own community

although the Burmese government is not allowed and that is why here it creates

the zones between us so the places where I live it's literally called black zone

meaning that that that is a war zone and that is why a lot of times pretty much

even until now the international community will come in and do

humanitarian work or any other work but they will be warned you don't go to the

black zone because that's where fighting is going on and that

while you can get into trouble and you can get killed and so that's how we

bring ourselves although even we cannot catch up with the world but to a certain

extent we still have access to some part of Education some part of health but of

course the people are still need a lot of health but at the same time when you

look at the reunions situation they don't have those XS and that is why they

are literally where sometimes when I talk I couldn't even I'm up to speed but

right now we don't even talk about bringing them up to speed we just talk

about their basic rights in their safety which is still in a big question and how

many people pay attention to it is very important and that is what we were

trying to bring the attention to our audience tonight but some of you also

will be asking so why religion well why not

other Muslims well the other Muslims in Burma and the region they are still

somewhat different you have a lot of Muslims Burmese Muslims who come from

many other countries immigrant and then of course leaving the country generation

after another so they are migrated are Muslims whereas the religion they came

in they settled down like every other ethnic groups they settled down they

have their own little location they have their own structure where they they run

their people they do their thing and that is located at the northern part of

our Rakhine State and so they own their lands they all they have natural

resources they have everything that we have to but because the Burmese

government wanted all the stuff that they have that is why they kick them out

they're trying to throw them out of their own homes their own places where

they live and it's not just that not even allowing

them to be called the people of Burma and so if that is the case then where

this leads to of course it's totally finally leaders

to the word we always use with the case of rohan john is stateless people

because they cannot live in Burma although they have homes but at the same

time they've been perceive as they are the the people who migrated from

Bangladesh okay I'm not saying that there is no body from Bangladesh coming

into Burma and migrated there even the religion community prehension leaders

that I have had contact with worked with they did there are some migrated

Bangladesh is Bangladesh population but it's not really to the point where what

the Burmese government said the number is so if that is the case then this is

not really true because these people are the the native people there and they're

supposed to have the rights like every so but then well I also wanted to bring

us to another piece of information is that you heard about Burma has hundred

and thirty-five sub ethnic groups well which country that have has 135 as five

ethnic groups but at the same time you have hundred and thirty-five ethnic

groups and why you can even add religion onto one of one of those hundred and

thirty-five that just doesn't make sense to me if that makes sense to out anybody

please explain to me because I just don't get it but nowadays I also learned

that it's not just random that is not on the list very recently just last week

lahu people who have been living in shan state ever since they are not also

included in the list and they are also restricted from moving around

while going from place to place and now it's even becoming worse in the northern

part of Shan State the white population they cannot even go from one city to

another so my point is that okay sorry let me take you back for another point

before I make the point but at the same time pathetically speaking two to three

weeks ago there was another piece of information where they wanted to

recognize another new sub ethnic groups which is the mix of the mix race of

Korean and Hmong so the reason why I'm saying it is pathetic is that you cannot

even include religion to be one of ethnic groups you cannot even include

love to be one of the ethnic groups but you wanted to add on another ethnic

group which is Korean and Mon so it just doesn't make sense at all it shows you

very clear that the military wanted to do what they wanted to do whatever that

affect other people's lives it is not the case for them so if that is the case

I don't know how much time I have left but before I go further I just wanted to

inform all the audience that my my aim for today is also to to to inform all of

us about what I see is important is it is what I call inclusive advocacy so

basically when we do advocacy on religion issues please continue doing

what you're doing which is very important they need our help at this

point but at the same time to make our case

stronger I think it is also important to bring in other ethnic situation in order

to tell the world that this is not their their thing is that the military what

they are trying to do is that they are trying to do persecute not just

brahim yet but also every other ethnic groups in innocence that they wanted to

run the whole country by themselves so either you become a Burman or you don't

have a space here because right now what also worries me to a certain extent is

that I start seeing some people not a lot but it could become a more in the

near future which I don't want to see is that like division some people creates

hate some people already suffer enough I don't want to see other ethnic groups to

have that resilient sentiment just because oh people are advocating on

their behalf but what about us nobody talked about is our issues when the bomb

the Burmese military dropped bombs at the the Cochin State the kitchen IDP

area almost on regular basis and then people in Shan state are running for

lives and now in last show one of the biggest the the biggest city in Shan

State also was under very strict security watch so I just wanted to give

us the idea of the people in Burma many of them wanted to do more for

regional issues but at the same time they trying to craft the space where

they don't have that much and they don't get that much support and that is what

they're still in the process of working on it trying to teach people about how

to ignore hate speech that is why

they're trying to create their educational tools and then reaching out

to the community so I think to a certain extent we have to also while we beefed

up the coalition outside of Burma I think it is also very important to help

support the coalition that trying to speak on behalf of the resilient people

inside Burma and and I think that's one thing that I wanted to remind us but at

the same time go back to the repatriation I'm sorry I'm

jumping all over but we have time for Q&A and I'm willing to answer any

question you may have going back to repatriation I just wanted

to tell you the Burmese military as well as the Burmese government right now they

don't have any political will and if that is the case there is no safety for

these brazilian population so basically to me repatriation is not an option at

all at this point because they're going to go back and they're going to put into

a place where it's like concentration camp literally they don't have access to

anything unless somebody if people come in and give them a humanitarian

assistant but at the same time the military doesn't allow the current

assistant to the point where the population needs and it can have enough

if that is the case then I don't really know how these people can leave safely

if they are returned because they're not going to get to go and live in their

homes and do they do this to only the religion population they also do this to

the current refugees to the Xiang refugees to the Cochin refugees the only

difference is that as I said earlier because the Quran the other ethnic

groups have the opportunity to build up their leadership their strong leadership

foundation and that is why they can still do some of the stuff for the

people although the Burmese government in the Burmese military don't have the

political will but for the in the case of religion they don't have this

foundation so I just don't see the point to to to push them back into Burma right

now unless we want to kill them and so everyone who does the advocacy I think

we have to make this very clear to the international community to the Indian

HCR which a lot of him janeshia are also trying to want to

think that yes it's okay to take them back and that is why breaking the

repatriation the last last batch they were a part of it but after all they

didn't really look out for it so now look where the religion people are are

they better off they are not they are still in the same situation and even

becoming worse so all in all I wanted to say that thank you very much for whoever

who are on the webinar right now that you pay attention to the need for the

people and keep doing what you're doing and if you need resources if you need

something you want to know more please feel free to reach out to me my email is

my RA da h @ gmail.com so that you can remember it it much easier and I'm going

to leave it here and I'm willing to answer any questions you may have

towards the end so thank you so much wait Thank You Myra for giving us a

little bit of context I think that what I took away from what you said is that

we need to pay particular attention to the Ranger issue at the moment but also

keep in mind that the Burmese military has been persecuting and attacking other

communities throughout Berner including your own and so that any kind of

advocacy really has to work on both fronts so I appreciate that perspective

next I'd like to invite Ahmed to who's a regular activist born in the refugee

camp to talk about his own experiences and then also thoughts around the

current issue a little bit about the repatriation agreements that my brought

up and then just the work that you're doing in in Canada for Refugees and for

those who are listening please any contact we will provide for those

including Mira's email please introduce yourself and if you have any questions

or thoughts at the end we'll have a Q&A so Amin thank you so much for the

opportunity and thank you everyone for joining them

and the webinar so I will share a little bit about my life in the refugee camp I

lost my father at the age of 2 after losing my father my mother was

traumatized what mental illness so it was a very hard situation for my family

as me and my sister were very young and my mommy mentally traumatized

we had no support and at the time there was no government or any Warfel program

supporting us at the time in the refugee camp and they approximately Bangladesh

where all this recent crisis is happening where the people are coming in

so having that as a kid and as a kid without proper guidance and proper

health care proper education proper nutrition I

I have lost hope in life that I might make it somewhere in life someday so we

struggle through every single hardship and at the age of seven I thought to

myself that I wanted to be educated someday be educated you speak about my

people and about what happened so I went to an institute and I have shared this

out of my me it might be twice for Adam to hear this story

but when I was in the refugee camp I wanted to go to the schools that

government built after many years later and I was told that I cannot be

registered in the Institute because I did not have proper guidance and proper

parent to guide me to a school so I was rejected they told me that people like

me are worthless and shouldn't be educated that's what I was told I was

asked what a broken heart her child who lost hope and I got a job at a coffee

shop working seven days a week 16 hours a day

enough I made enough just to provide one mail per day for my family worked every

single day worked like a slave worked there for many years

then after someone saw that my family needed help and my mom needed medical

treatment and someone from Windsor Ontario Canada saw my mom and they said

they wanted to sponsor my family privately to Canada and have a better

life in Canada after coming here we've been displaced we've been put in

separate home because my mom was unfit to be a parent in Canadian society so we

were bounced around in foster homes that sorry I'm going off and things that I

shouldn't be really discussing bye yeah after being in foster care for so long I

gathered I was finally reconnected with my community in Canada there is a based

in Kitchener we're about 250 250 were Inga's live so I gathered with the

rangas and there's a Muslim organization called Muslim social services of kW

Waterloo they got some funding from the city of Kitchener to do some trauma

program and programs or not to do drugs and drug addiction programs and so with

program coordinator saw us he said you guys don't need none of these things so

we don't have to come doing the session anymore about the drugs because you guys

don't look like the kids who were there drugs so he asked us his name the

coordinator and his name is use of zayn he asked us what we wanted to do with

the money and what the fashion bare spaces do gap all the kids said let's do

a play let's do a theoretical plate and the director of asked what do you want

to do a play about all the kids said let's do a play about the plight of the

Rohingya people let's do a pay based on the based on our parents lies based on

our lives and none of these kids had T Turk

experience none of them went to theater school nobody had any form of theater

training but the coordinator he was in a Disney show and he had some other

technical background and he did his master's also based on TV programs so we

started writing the play everybody would the play contribute a little bit of

everything and we came up with the play about a year we rehearsed for a whole

year then we had a sold-out show of 400 people first show and second show we

have 450 people to show what we did for Islamic Relief Canada what many had son

as a keynote speaker where we had 920 plus people and we raised over $500,000

in one night so that gave us hope that we had a voice we had a story to tell

that people wanted to hear and people should hear so we thought maybe put into

a documentary because we can't have that all the cast traveling everywhere to do

a show because it cost theater space cost a lot of money we didn't have much

money to do that shows everywhere so we came up with the documentary that will

be released in April and we're going to be having a premiere in the United

Nations headquarter inshallah soon somewhere in April and after getting

into the play I realized how much impact we had on the people on the issue and

how much people are wanting to hear that's when I thought I've been through

this and I need to do something about it because I have people calling me from

back home I have people calling my mom from back home so that pushes me to

amplify their voice our voice to higher level so that's when I gather what about

40 youth from the hinga community in Canada to come up with organization

called Canadian hanger development initiative where we founded the

organization to focus on to speak about the plight of

the Rohingya people and to come up with some form of educational scholarship by

getting help from the government and also speaking about the Hindi people at

higher level at the federal level knocking on every single door every

politician's door whether was helpful or not we still did Drive in some time live

in a school behind leaving work behind and we still go to meetings where we had

to drive for 10 hours just to attend just to amplify the voice group of youth

who were highly dedicated just to see something to be done about their people

now we're mainly focused on because let me talk about the reputation a little my

recovered you're very good I was there recently in Miami in in the people where

the people are coming in the camp in Bangladesh from my mark I was there

recently Bangladesh two weeks where I have witnessed many things that I

haven't witnessed myself when I was in that camp

things that I have never realized that it was happening things people need the

help how badly these people have been hurt how badly these people who ended

how badly the woman are being raped and how the kids over forty thousand miners

been orphaned when you look at those and and you see all this government relation

mama are talking about repatriation it it seems to me like none of this had

ever happened none of this Rohini should ever happen

because they made it look like that they could just cover up and bring these

people back and forth this been going on for 40 years happening for 40 years I

was born in the refugee camp I'm 24 years old and my mom she was very young

when she moved to the refugee camp and the people are just going back and

forward and many people are dying and even the

phillipa Gandhi he said that situation is not getting any better

it is not safe for the fingers to go back but yeah Bangladesh and marma is

talking about repatriation we did not my organization and I we do not try to

focus on the repatriation work because we want to we want to try to look out

for the people because we know they will be there for very very long time we're

trying to gather as Burma task force Canada we've been working with my my

task force here to to come up with solution to push the government to make

sure they stop this and try to bring something trying to get the answer shift

for the ringgit people trying to get some scholarship for English students we

launched a campaign recently on lunch good to get some blanket because we have

people calling us saying it is very cold and people need some sort of things to

warm them but we just recently launched a campaign and the campaign didn't do

much didn't do really good and we still have the campaign running and lunch good

for the blanket appeal but everybody in the organization we contributed together

from our own personal pocket there will be a blanket distribution happening in

Cox bazaar today from our organization upper about 400 families whatever we can

because we all are students and is very hard it is very very hard for us to

support them any financial weight because we we have to leave our work

behind because we used to work before all these crises god intact we stopped

work we stopped working because it's needed more attention than that we can

we could give with the work time so end of the day what we come to I'm sorry I

don't know if I'm running I'm running all over the place and I'm taking lots

of time end of the day we have to look at this as what if it

was our crisis if what if it was happening in our own room what if he was

happening in America what if it's happening in Canada wherever your family

is just imagine what if he's happening there imagine as if your family's going

through all that you know we don't have to wait for it all to happen here we can

reach out to our government okay reach out to our senators our president

Prime Minister reach out to anybody write a letter because these people

needs us today's us tomorrow with it'll be

someone else today is happening tomorrow it might happen in anywhere else another

day because as great Martin Luther King said to write to justice any sorry I'm

really bad with cool injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere we

have to look at that because Rwanda happened

lunch things are happening around the world we have to look at all those

little kids that are dying every single day and all those women that are being

raped we could make it all stop we just have to focus on how important it is

because lots of people their life is in danger

nobody chose this nobody chose us to be attacked nobody chose us to be raped

nobody chose us to be illegal nobody should be illegal they were from there

they've been there they had a perfect normal life until someone decided that

they shouldn't have it I suffer that as a child that I should not have to go

through all that live in a rich you can knowing that I'm not safe no

child deserves that no child in Bangladesh right now standing for food

I know hundreds of kids are standing on line right now to get some food

we don't we don't have to watch them suffer we could all work together we

could all do something for these people thank you so much Hey

thank you so much and I think the personal experience to your activism is

really powerful and will hopefully move folks to to get involved there is one

question from Shahana before I invite Adam maybe if you wanted to address it

which is is there any youth activism in the United States are you connecting

with youth or enjoy activists in the United States

so if you wanted to answer that question and then I'm next we'll invite Adam to

share about a Burma task forces work any other issues maybe we need to cover and

then specific campaigns that you can get involved in so amid other youth

activists in the United States also might be in contact with lots of them

because they're having a rally on on Wednesday where they invited you know

Burma TAS was invited lots of people to come down and I was also supposed to

come unfortunately I have some other things going on it was very nice of

Burma task force to even invite a few of us here from Canada to amplifies the

voice and they're having a wonderful legislation day and in the wash in

Washington DC so there is there is lots of youth and in America who are also

fighting for the plight of the Rohingya people and I will leave my email address

on the comment please do reach out to me and also Adam will also share more

about that because Burma Tazawa has contact with most of those youth and so

do I all right excellent so Adam just wanted drink you've been working on this

issue for many years maybe before you sort of jump to the lobby advocacy day

are there other themes that you want to address around the Ranger issue I think

one of the questions that come up for me is why this why this crisis or genocide

sort of now in 2017 there's been such an exodus out of Myanmar Burma and and

maybe later maybe Maira can jump in is that we understand that the Burmese

military has always been persecuting ethnic minorities and so but why is this

sort of taking on this more public acute crisis I read a statistic that said

about 90 percent of Linda have left Myanmar as of now with only about maybe

seventy thousand or so remaining so maybe if you can I think that piece I

think is not clear we understand that there's always been persecution that the

community's been particularly vulnerable because of the lack of internal systems

that Mayra mentioned about other communities but why Rohingya and well

it's it feels particularly targeted and why now why is this coming up in such a

you know really ethnic cleansing genocide I mean these are very strong

war crimes if you could really give us some context of that and then anything

else you'd like to share

yeah thank you totally for including me and I think it

is really important that we have this this this group of speakers speaking

from experience and also for the need for more solidarity between ethnic

groups that have been targeted by the Myanmar military over so many decades

the situation is getting worse but certainly the erasure of the rural India

from northern Rockland State I make profit motive hate yes we can

talk about Islamophobia institutionalized and promoted by

extremist Buddhist supremacists and that their allied with the military and the

military is behind everything pulling strings and they've been puppet masters

for generations from now in Burma Myanmar the the profit motive could be

seen in some satellite photos that came to light just a couple of days ago I was

just at an amnesty international conference yesterday and Michael from

Amnesty

showed some slides though I've seen them from Human Rights Watch as well and you

could just google Human Rights Watch and you'll see them because they're very new

their pictures not only about the rural India neighborhood being burned but then

a later picture of the rojan geo neighborhood being bulldozed and then a

later picture of a row hinge on a bur hood having a road built right over had

never been and meanwhile the non-royal Engine neighborhood with its swimming

pools is untouched and it's just yards away just meters away and so it's all

being done the you know very methodically atrocities and those don't

seem methodical except that there seems to be a method there to and the madness

the military comes in and as people flee the evidence shows that they shoot at

their backs and a lot of people were were also killed that way but injured

and the wounds are very much agreeing with with those testimonies so that

there's so many testimonies of atrocities and now pictures of the mass

graves and no doubt there are many more acid being used to dissolve the dead

body bodies Riddle appendix things that could take our attention and should this

is groups are still arguing about whether this is genocide or not but

whatever wants to call this this har the Internet community has been somewhat

stuck again why because of the profit motive because she is on the Security

Council China is a protector of Myanmar's government and military is

investing in in Rakhine State there are grandiose plans for gas

pipelines going from the various gas fields off the coast and all of this has

just been discovered just being developed what's happened now is not the

democratization of Burma but it's the opening of markets so again into this

fusion of capitalism with democracy that's not what we're seeing we're

seeing an authority government using some of the tools of democracy for

command control there is hope eventually for a softening of to say there are good

civil society people who are also under a cloud there's Intel there is there is

threat recent arrests of the Reuters reporters for reporting mass graves is

just another reminder of many but they keep civil society quiet yeah and

certainly there's a lot of Islamophobia my task force does look at that we're

based originally as a muslim-american organization but we work in partnership

as much as we can with all human rights support and so instead of making this a

Muslim issue it's really a human rights issue that should concern all we need to

build those alliances and empower the impacted community in New York there's a

few role India in in Chicago there are more Wisconsin they're scattered around

maybe 4,000 maybe 4,500 at most many of them just working several jobs just to

survive many who have not had it much of a chance for education so it's it going

to be a very long challenge to empower the community but you know as we speak

there's going to be there there's a Berlin conference going on with many

activists arriving today there is also an increasing of opportunities to talk

about this this crisis but what I don't see is solutions and we were just

talking about the repatriation farce and you know obviously that was promoted by

China also as a bilateral agreement between Burma and Bangladesh and it's

just about putting a few Roja back into IDP camps with barbed wire going around

the concentration camp and utterly excluding Burma

this is what what happened after 2012 and people are still there in those

camps this is what's happened to other ethnic groups as well on the margins and

in the other states and so Burma itself viable nation is really very fragile and

the peace process nons also roadmap to coexistence all

this seems more and more elusive but it is the these are signs of possibility of

future hope will we need peacekeepers and safe zones will we need some

autonomy in in the RAC Hines what would that even mean the here is

questions and they're not being asked seriously if you end because of the

block blocking of China they need to be also asked here in the US and on

Wednesday the February 28th were a permit task force with its allies is

organizing Lobby day will hinge at sea day on the hill and everyone is invited

wait 8:30 in the morning we're meeting at in in the home worth Senate building

the details are on our website view Borg there's also a separate link if you go

to our campaigns link which gives you a lot of materials not only to go to the

advocacy day but to contact you and you know the has been a bipartisan issue in

the past some of the Republicans are slower to take action on human rights

but when you talk about religious freedom some talk about China some of

them get it for whatever reason you know you you we trying to really convince a

number of law take a very rare bipartisan step to do something

meaningful and the so we're going to we have some Jewish rabbis you know coming

we have a couple Buddhists who have signed up you know we really want to try

to build this movement and it's really important that that it builds and so you

know we have about we don't have as many row hinges we had hoped joining us and I

wish we had had brother Antony hopefully the next time but the we have about I

think a coming with us and who will be visiting and speaking from and know just

recently I met with a French mission at the UN and brought a couple it's a a

Burmese Buddhist actually a rock I'm Buddhist wife and a Roja husband and

they're just arrived here in New York and

and there's and they were willing to take tell their story about all the

suffering they've gone through as an interfaith couple you know people don't

realize that this is actually illegal to have an interfaith marriage and they've

really you know suffered jail and the threats and beliefs here hopefully it

will work out u.s. does not take many refugees as everyone knows and so there

are alliances to be made between you know Roy hinge kits and also the refugee

rights movement and I hope that we can build this with all the people who care

about daca we need to also link and support each other so there are a lot of

people who need the the policies to to really improve much more to speak about

but I think that the main thing is that if there's a way to support our out of

kasi pushing sanctions bills would believe that without sanctions there

will be no improvement in policies in Burma I know we actually think the

sanctions need to be a lot stronger than they are in these current bills but we

are supporting them and you know hopefully all more steps we take in the

right day if we're if we're going together hopefully we'll get to our

destination to get wait no that's great so I'm going to invite those who are

listening to post their questions on the Twitter chat before we get to the

questions I thought I would just open it up it seems like their work happening at

multi-levels Adam talked about the advocacy day that's on the 28th I posted

a link and I'll post that to everyone who registered there's the refugee work

with that Ahmed was talking about and then sort of the inclusive advocacy that

Myra was also mentioning there also seems to be a lot of work also just with

refugees in the in the camps in Bangladesh with

vision of just basic you know human needs of a blanket food

are there other other other efforts that we should be aware of is there a way

that all of these efforts are being connected one of the reasons why I

wanted to have this webinar it's it seemed like there was amazing work

happening in multiple fronts and that's okay it needs to happen you know as in

in the work in Burma Myanmar in Bangladesh around the repatriation

refugee issues humanitarian and then more sort of policy is there a way that

all of these are being brought together in some fashion so to two questions one

is is there other things that are happening that we should be plugged into

and are there efforts to kind of coordinate all of this effort which

feels like needs to happen in some way so and maybe start with Myra and and who

else wants to answer that and in the meantime guest post your questions and

we're gonna go about heart stop until 9:30 and maybe a little bit we can log

off but Myra like are there other campaigns we need to be aware of are

there coordination is happening um thank you well before I go there I wanted to

go back to you first your question early yes well um the only reason why now is

because we have more access to media we have access to more information and all

those stuff as well as now everyone has the phone so if something happened they

get to take picture they get a posted out but the struggle the persecution has

been there ever since and I mean if you go back to late 70s they were pushed out

like hundreds of thousands of them conflict for nice oh do we know anything

about those because the the the spins are off the information that

is why nobody have access to any of those nobody's dare to put anything out

because a lot of times you also have to save your own life but at the same time

it's not just hidden issues it's also the other ethnic issues like when I 1995

when I fled overnight and about another over a hundred thousand

Coran refugees that will literally have to cross the river on overnight him

refugee nobody knows about it nobody heard about it all is because we don't

have access to information at Beck fan and then international community also

didn't pay attention to us at the level we were having now so but then is that

enough no it is not enough that is why we all who are on the webinar tonight I

just wanted to relay the message that it is our responsibility because they need

us it doesn't mean that we have to your engine and then we have to talk about

them or we have to be Burmese and then we're to advocate on their behalf but we

are human beings and we are interrelated and therefore I take it as my

responsibility so do you do I have anything um I don't really have anything

specific but I rather most mostly coordinate with an admin all those stuff

aside from my money I shouldn't say my free time whenever I

can but I also have my site my stuff over here so that's why I are you I work

with and mine enough so I at this point follow his lead instead of me having

something specific so um others on ahmud are there's other campaigns or

fundraisers or other efforts that you want to share my question that there are

different things happening yeah but you know I've been invited to two

fundraisers in New York by separate organizations right and which is great

but it almost feels like a need for a little bit more coordination of

all of our advocacy daeun so that's partly why I was asking that there's

kind of a need for that hmm so because I my team here we don't think of the

wrinkles going back because ooh when hasn't been highly involved in this

matter and we haven't seen any action being taken by the United Nation so

that's why because since it's been going on for 40 years we do work very closely

with a migration minister in Canada Canadian immigration minister and I

shared this in the in my panel in the United Nation last month where we're

trying to get Canada to sponsor about twenty five thousand three hinges

because that's what they did for the Syrians so we believe Canada is capable

of doing that and the Trudeau administration is looking into getting

the ring guests to come over here and when Canada does things like this and

other country is very very much look into that so if Canada could lead to

open up the doors and when I met with the minister the minister said the

Bangladesh is not providing an exit pass for the ringgit people to leave and when

I made the ambassador of Bangladesh I heard a different story now I'm trying

to get bottom off the both side of the story to see who was telling me the

truth and who was not or to see what is the real story is because that's because

I've been here in two different stories and I really think that I really hope

that the project becomes successful of migrating somewhere Hingis and I believe

that everybody and their home country should be looking into that pushing

their government into again in summer English context they could deserve a

life they don't deserve freedom of movement they deserve every single

freedom that we we have in our countries now so I believe these people

deserves the light so we should really look into that and the other campaign is

that I mentioned earlier the winter blanket up here that we launched at

lunch good it'll be very very nice if people can't help out because we're

doing whatever we came from I own our own personal pocket very nice to have

people to donate just a little bit of money because we might not feel the cold

because we have a very perfect home we have blankets in our own home when we

have heaters whenever we feel cold we turn on our heaters whenever we feel hot

we turn on our a/c so these people really needs our help

maybe if I share the link with you it spread it to the people to the viewers

to maybe help out any way possible thank you and brother yeah yeah

definitely if there are links please share that too with me and I can post

them on our page to encourage folks even folks who are not maybe on live tonight

this is being recorded so folks can share there is a question comment from

around a minister summarize it is figuring out a solution so willing to

people can go back home safely and how do we raise our voices to start this

initiative now we need to step up instead of building camps and

organizations what I heard from Amma there's actually that maybe that he

doesn't see that as being a viability at all but maybe others can talk about is

there any pathway or policy or effort to have we're gonna go back to their what

is their rightful home essentially right I guess that's a question that's up

there and others please post your questions and then we're what these

questions will serve wine down the webinar but

do you want to take that up sure yeah I mean I also think short-term these

repatriation deals are empty and the question is is there political will to

do the right thing for the people or will this be another black spot you

right now of course one could be gloomy but one should not give the Palestinians

are still displaced many other groups are still displaced but every situation

is is different

baris as you know what needs to happen I mean a public education program

seriously done in Myanmar could erode the anti religious sentiment this is in

the u.s. you know has been challenged in the courts but the courts in Myanmar are

weak and not independent but over time they will they should improve but

they've also the racism has been technology in popularity in the United

States and continues to be just as other liberation movements find a place for

example and in sewing in the discourse and so we have culture wars in the u.s.

the cultural wars in Myanmar are harsh much more harsh and but and yes it's

about pluralism it's about tolerance and all those things that make people yawn

but you find a way to make it real and if you look at younger Americans younger

North Americans you see we are able to get along across many of the boundaries

that used to exist not perfectly but it's it's a work in progress so I'd like

to be education tried but this is and then resistance to the military myanmar

used to be not a great supporter of the military

but the military is very clever about getting certain monks over to their size

other influencers as an output Hamza II on some surgery in a very delicate

political position and now she's basically complicit but she's in a very

powerless moment not to make any kind of excuse but I think there is hope in the

Solidarity potential solidarity that could arise among the Myanmar people and

part of that needs to come the Diaspora there are so many refugees in the Unites

not immobilized yet or that kind of a level of solidarity so that will be a

really important challenge for all of us and in something the romantic force

needs to get more involved with we need that we need to listen to people and

then in the Baptist churches the Quran you know churches here we need to go to

Utica we need to go to Atlanta and then all the places where there are Burmese

communities and figure out how we can encourage them to find their own way

because peace depends on the Burmese people themselves you know the

conference there was a lot of energy around this issue and actually tomorrow

they're doing their own bloppy day and one of their three issues is is the

sanctions bill for Burma's so there's interest growing there's opportunities

now that didn't just a while ago and I think that all the people listening if

you could just figure out what you're going to do and really don't let us just

talk about it but what were you willing to do I think

you all need and feel the need for action great thank you so much I think

that there is a very ask for advocacy day on the 28th there's an appeal for

humanitarian appeal for blankets I think these are common right in the cam

in Bangladesh I'm not mistaken so there are really um sort of individual to

advocacy different levels of folks can get involved maybe we can just end

unless I'm seeing other questions with the theme of today's webinar which is

solidarity does Margaret did you want to add something yeah yes I just wanted to

chip in a little bit I just wanted to chip in a little bit it's a very good

question but I just wanted to let our audience know that yes the work has been

done at a very many different levels but at the same time we are meeting with

very hard-headed people or sometimes I use my blank language they turn their

blind eyes on the situation and so are we not talking

yes government I mean we'll do based in the year so we're talking about yes we

do but at the same time they also want their piece of pie they also have their

own interests a lot of times they put their interests before the lives on the

maple and that is where the problem the bigger problem is but at the same time

we are the constituents we have the voice just keep puttering that is

something that is something that you can do just keep doing what you're doing be

consistent and perseverance we are we're not doing anything hit the UN Adams know

the best and giving you example backing when I would I did the advocacy yet the

UN probably almost 10 years ago we had massive killing going on in current

state and I went to meet with Frances dang back then he was the head of the

genocide prevention and he was like oh are you sure I don't see genocide going

on in your country and I got to the point where I was really heat up and I

was like sir whether you see it or not whether you call it genocide or not

there is the symptom if you don't care about it you're going to regret and

think about it for the rest of your life because you're going to feel guilty for

not doing anything if something happened because than that and I'm I'm not a

prophet but now you see random situation where

hundreds of thousands are pouring out in a few days so I hope Fran sees them

quick wake up a little bit but I just wanted to say that the UN also has to do

their part they talk a lot but they didn't what could walk that that walk

and so the only piece of where I should say the only piece but one of the pieces

the the the tool that we have at the UN is the Burma specific resolution their

resolution last year was nothing the Burmese government didn't even give a

crap about it they didn't even respond so it tells us

that the UN doesn't have the political will so as many other countries so but

right now I just wanted to encourage everybody who comes on the call if you

are from those Southeast Asian Asian countries maybe it will be very helpful

to put your government as well to look into their religion situations and take

it very seriously the problem is that I usually used to meet with several

countries before I moved to a DC when I was still in New York and then that

they'll be like oh they are the sovereign country I really hate this

awful me word when I was up there because if you are talking about the

sovereignty of that people then what about the lights and that's where I get

upset so I think in terms of the international community if we can start

off with the neighboring countries if they can build up their political wheels

and trying to push the Burmese Authority that could be helpful in a certain a

certain point I know many people have done it but which is I keep I would have

to keep doing it Thanks why we call it advocacy wait No thank you so much there

is one question and we'll end with that it seems maybe a quick word for Ahmed

which is Naz me and asked she's interested in building a youth group in

her college and do you have any advice on how she can connect with you know how

she could do that too raise humanitarian voices so if you want

to answer that and then we're gonna wind down this webinar so just for others to

think about is this idea is solidarity and so think about sort of your last

words of like you know how should we be thinking sort of moving forward but I

mean if you can answer the question about the youth group yeah so there's

many ways you could gather groups because today's generation there's lots

of good good kids because even like I know this is not relevant even after the

Florida shooting you seen how many youth has been gathering together gather human

values and and trying to implement their voice how what they want and you know to

start off by gathering things maybe you can have a maybe little event where we

could talk about the ringgit people because lots of universities and

colleges they have that here and if you're new york you can even have

brother Adam come down to your university or anybody from the burma

task force because people need to know about the issue because if someone needs

to educate them before they can really get into it because they need to know

why they are doing it why are they getting involved in something that they

don't know about so first of all have an event about about the reinga issue it

was very very good and I know for sure that your administrator school

administration they will help you with the Student Union you know if you talk

to the student union they were happy with it

organize a small very small event have someone to talk about the ring issue

that will help a lot of people to be aware and to learn about the ring issue

and from there you can come come up with lots of other events because one thing

leads to another and lead but I think that's a very good place to start

okay yeah so um we do want to wind down because we um but for if there are

resources so a lot the margins as media platform is committed to making these

connections happen so but everyone who is registered I will you know make the

information of our speakers available so you can contact them directly also

you're welcome to use this webinar it's recorded it's going to you can use this

as a way to do education as well you can share it and that's part of the reasons

why we host these conversations is that it becomes really information resource

use I think to get people excited they need to feel like why should I get

involved in this issue um so with that let's have some closing remarks about

how do we there seems to be two kinds of solidarity building solidary

amongst the dot burmese diaspora and communities and taking their lead I

think that was something that Adam mentioned and then those of us who are

interested in in kind of helping showing support as sort of a I guess maybe

external solidarity so maybe you can speak to both or one or what's needed

moving forward and with that we'll close for tonight but that doesn't mean that

we won't continue our efforts and focus on India just for those you know lots of

margins has been focused around indigenous communities around the world

and also focused around Native American issues and we have a number of webinars

on that so we do see this as part of a larger effort where we do see indigenous

communities lands and economic resources being grabbed and that there are

connections here and so we will continue to highlight and lift up

those issues and so subscribe to us so that you can kind of keep in touch of

what's going on so maybe we'll start in the order of

what we began Myra solidarity what's next closing thoughts maybe things that

are kind of pressing that you feel like we need to get on to this webinar and

then all men and then Adam I don't have much quickly so after I speak I probably

have to get up because of another call is waiting for me 15 minutes ago I don't

have much to say I think continue what we're continuing today what we're doing

now but also be persistent be perseverance and add on more because the

thing is that one person we cannot be that law but the number is bigger the

louder our voice is going to be but going back to the question earlier about

the student thing I really wanted to have the one-on-one conversation and see

if we can brainstorm and then create something so I was just asking in my my

text where the person is based if the person is based in u.s. perhaps we can

do conference call with and figure out something that we can talk about it

maybe I don't know we can create some some kind of chain yeah oh you're in

Michigan so that's not too far we can figure something yeah so we have a

contact of everybody who registered it right I would do is connect all of our

speakers so we can do that offline don't worry about that yeah so next Ahmed in

terms of last thoughts solidarity maybe one thing you want people to take away

today I think I have covered everything but like I said earlier you know all of

these people are suffering in many ways you know many ways things haven't

happened elsewhere when I when I seen when I saw those woman and

those children I really thought to myself sometimes we

treat and love our animals that we have in Canada in North America much much

better than those people are being treated as an animal died here who would

give a proper burial proper funeral there will be people crying for it

but those people there they have no one you know if we don't push our government

nobody would speak up because under the day you know they says when people

become politicians they lose their heart but we have to show them we have to them

show them politicians that that this issue matters to us this is personal and

it has gone beyond the limit and people shouldn't be suffering like this we

should all keep pushing our government to do more because everybody deserves

freedom everybody deserves safety everybody deserve a life knowing that

they will survive till tomorrow these people don't have that so we need to

keep our voice up and we gotta keep pushing our government that's that's

what I want to say thank you great Thank You Ahmed and Adam any final thoughts we

encourage everyone who can to join burma task force on the 28th for the advocacy

day so definitely if you can please join their support them with other last

thoughts before we close for tonight thanks yeah if you could check out org

page there's a lot of stuff there and you know you if you go to our web

you can you can explore the different links and the news articles and so forth

you know to try to figure out what you can do to help you know the the

disasters of war affect a lot of places and you know eat with Yemen and Syria

and others other places but you know if they're all also connected and to

advocate for one really should be to speak for the other and and so I think

that a life of human rights education and activism is needed we've got to

scale this up given facing we you know meaning many of them that so I think

that you know this is a good opportunity to raise some issues and raised some

questions but everyone needs to figure out how to take responsibility these are

not you know these others that we're talking about

they've been other for decades by hostile government policies and like you

know native cultural trip by specific people by their former friends and

neighbors they've been other dand this kind of a horrible trend needs to stop

it seems though to be in the u.s. even in Europe and so let's not think of the

Rohingya as others or as victims they are us we are them and we should be

using our privileges and our resource and other resources and other powers to

take action so this is a big challenge and I know that we need your help

wait thank you to our guest today Mayra Ahmed and Adam lotta margins looks

forward to continuing to work with you larger margins as a nonprofit

organization has signed on to Human Rights Watch's or call for sanctions

and so beyond the media work here and the webinars we hope to also support the

advocacy work those that's happening with the United Nations on our

respective governments and also at the very human level that Ahmed mentioned

sometimes we forget around policy is a humanitarian efforts and so the impact

on young people having to live with minimal economic resources live

oftentimes in a foreign country mental health services so let's also not forget

the importance of just the day-to-day dignity of living and so that whatever

as myra said you can do just involved and get involved and stay involved and

with that i also want to thank Shahana Hanif associate editor for tweeting you

can follow at linga solidarity stay in touch with us if you have any thoughts

at lot the margins you can email us at editors at lotta margins comm and also a

final shout out to person behind our webinars Albert Garcia who's our

interactive producer and helps on behind the scenes to make these going and then

the last I wanted to give a shout out to Jeanne Hallisey she has given us a

permission to use her powerful photographs documenting Rohingyas in the

Bangladesh camps and we'll be sharing some of those throughout as well I'm so

with that good night and let's continue to join and this campaign not just also

as was mentioned for Mia but other communities around the world that are

directly impacted that's the mission of lot the margins and we're really happy

to facilitate this good night thank you

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How To Make A YouTube Background - Duration: 8:38.

Welcome back. A question that a lot of up-and-coming YouTubers ask is how do

you create a YouTube background? So, we're going to discuss what that might mean and

how you do that. -Oh, the actual background? Oh, I thought it

was like the background for... Forget it. That's what we're going to talk about.

That's the... That's... -That was the video logo there. -Yeah.

So, backgrounds. Backgrounds for YouTube. Why does that matter? Who wants them? Does

it matter? I have questions. Begin. -Yeah. Well, people

want to create a show. They think, "Okay, I've got to create my set or you know,

what do i what do I put behind me?" And my first recommendation is to really work

with what you've got. In this case, this was... This sound wall was never really

meant to be a background. -Right. -But I put some blue lights on it and it turned out...

-It works. -It looks pretty good. -Yeah. You know, find something that... -Yeah. You worked

with what you had. -Mm-hmm. -I mean so if you're in prison right now,

unfortunately you're only going to have kind of a gray dingy background. but

maybe if you can work like your loved ones pictures into it or something like

that, right? Isn't that kind of where you're going? -So, in other videos, I've

talked about doing research and finding good examples of what you like. This is

another one of those cases where look at other YouTube channels. Maybe that are in

a similar niche to yours or not. And what do they do is their background. I mean if

it's a vlog, they're changing they're moving all over. But if it's a talking

head video on how-to video... You know, where you've got a continuous background, find

examples of what you like. There's you know, what's the one in link? The

Good Mythical Morning. -Alright. -They're weird set. -Stuff on the walls. -And

were you think of like a sports commentary thing. They've got their

jerseys, track, trophies, right. Yeah. -So, you could... You could create a set like that.

But another recommendation that I have is when you have a high quality camera,

the whole reason what we're filming on here is a DSLR with a

lens with a f-stop 1.4. What that means is it's got a really narrow area of

focus. Which means that back here, we're actually pretty close to the the wall

back here. The further away we are from the background, the more it's blurred. So

you can actually take kind of a messy background or or a kitchen that still

got stuff left out on the counters. But you blur it and it actually looks pretty

nice. -Well, if you go to this link here. This is the link to my little YouTube

place, channel. You'll see some of the work that Nate does for my stuff. The

same thing. The blurred out background. A kitchen or living room or whatever. And

it really does it adds such a nice touch of professionalism. And it makes the... It

makes... It makes visually quite interesting.

Even when (Often) the subjects themselves are not terribly interesting. At least

the look is. You know what I mean? -I do know what you mean. (Laughs) So, in this room here, we're pretty small.

-Yeah. -But in the last time that we filmed at your house... -We turned it around. -Yeah.

-Yeah. -So, I was in the kitchen. Had the kitchen counter. You and your wife were

sitting there and then we had the whole dining room. -And he blew out the whole back and

there's 30 feet or whatever behind us. I've just blown out stuff but it's... It's

kind of we need to move the lights, by the way so they're not in the mirror

reflection. I just noticed. That's just me. You don't... But when you see it, you'll

know what I'm saying. Anyway, yeah, keep going, keep going. -So, that's a

recommendation is to get a good quality lens that can really blur things.

And even if you want a tutorial on that, go to YouTube. "How to blur...?" I don't know

what would it be. -Background? "How to blur background with DSLR?" And by the way, if you're

like a lot of people who don't know what DSLR camera is because... -Digital -...everybody

uses, yes. It says... Yeah. -I used to know. -Anyway, it's a

camera. Just a regular you know, one of these like cameras, right? With a camera

body and lenses. That's how you get the lenses that are widely... That are wide or

narrow or whatever. Like he's talking about. -Also. The quick tip were here was

just throw some colored lights in. I mean I I have these L-E-D lights that I can...

-Yeah. This is not a blue wall. -Yes. This is a... -This is like dark grey, sound

foam. -With blue flashes from each side. -So, I can

turn it red or green or pink. We should do pink. -Do pink next time. Join us

tomorrow. No we won't do pink. -Okay. Now, I'm actually going to have to take

the camera off to show you this. But I'm going to recommend... So, I hesitate when I...

Yeah. I hesitate when I say the word recommend because there's a reason why I

use this. You can use a green screen. -Right. -So, we we held on a green screen.

I've got a roll of green paper up there. Which I'll show you in a second too. But

we then took a photo and put it in the background and this is with a client of

mine, Marianne. We worked on it and worked on it.

The lighting whatnot so that it looked like she was in that room. Okay?

But with my team in the Philippines, with the processing power of their computers

and whatnot, the green screen... It was... It just took more time than I wanted them

to take on editing. It really doubled the amount of work that they had to do. At

the time, it they doubled the length of time. So, I had an idea. I thought, "Why

don't I take that photo that I was putting in the background, printed on a

big huge vinyl background and then just film in front of that. And let's see how

it works." So I spent a hundred bucks on this. So, haven't adjusted the lighting

for this. But you can see, it's just hanging from the ceiling. And I've got

I've got stuff in front of it here because... But you can see. And one thing I

want you to notice... It's going to be a little weird. Notice how I'm in focus and this

is blurred. It's actually in focus on this. But it's printed blurry

intentionally. So let me come back and we'll talk about it. -Oh, I thought maybe you

just be... When you blew it up. It just accidentally was out of focus. You know

what I mean? -But I do know what you mean. So, we I did that on purpose. When you put

a photo like... We talked about blur. When you have a good quality lens, the

background all naturally blur when it focuses on us. So, if I put a photo behind

us, you know, in the editing software, you always add a few percent blur. -Yeah. So,

that it looks more realistic. -Yeah. And sometimes when things are a little bit

too crisp, it's like you can tell that it's not real. But when you blurred it, it's

like, "Oh, yeah. It actually makes it look realistic." -Yeah. -So, when I went to took

that photo... Obviously, I had to make it really large to send off to the the

print company. But I... Before doing that, I did actually add a few percent blur to

it. -And you told them, "Look, this is going to look blurry to you, but it's supposed to." (Laughs)

-So, it's intentionally blurry. -It's kind of fun, yeah. -So, that when I put my camera in

this corner of the room, put the subject about right here, that's in the

background, get the lighting just right. The Lighting's a little bit tricky. But

that's an option is you can take whatever background you want. If you want

to make it appear like you're filming in the Oval Office or... Outdoor scenes are

going to be your get have to work with the lighting but you could really do

anything. If you want to appear like you're in a beach. If you think about

news channels, a lot of times they'll have a glass window behind them showing

the city. -Right, yeah. -They're not... They don't really have windows there with the

city behind them. That's in most cases. Maybe they do. -Some, some do that. Somebody,

yeah. -But in a lot of cases... It's is a TV screen or some type of... -Yeah. It's key to

an imagery or whatever, yeah. So, it's not so... Yeah. Obvious. Maybe, maybe

something to mention too is a fairly basic rule of thumb which is try not to

be too distracting with your background because really the focus should be on

you and your co-host or whoever it is. Because often... And that's sort of a rule

of thumb. I'm an actor and you know, now most people will shoot their own little

auditions and they always say, "Keep a fairly boring..." By boring, I mean not too

dynamic background so that it doesn't take away from the actual focus. -Yeah, way

he said. -See? -If you found this video helpful, subscribe. If you didn't find it

helpful then don't subscribe. We only want people who like these videos here.

-We don't want any negative... No any negativity at all. -No negative comments,

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How To Build A Deeper Connection With Your Partner ~ Couples Vision Board Workshop - Duration: 1:01.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: It's really fun.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: I loved doing this Vision Board Workshop. What I found was different from

the other Vision Board Workshops that I have been to is that you can really see the balance

between what you're you're after in life and so what you're after in life as a couple.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: You definitely realize where your compromises are going to come in, and you also find

some things you didn't realize the other person was as interested in as you were.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: It gives you a chance to concretely talk about things that you don't often talk about together.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: For me what was interesting was during the meditation

things came up that were very different from what I imagined.

WORKSHOP ATTENDEE: I enjoyed this very much. I think

that just having the opportunity to put my thoughts on paper and then put them

in pictures for us to share some things later and for us to focus was incredible.

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