Cider & Sensitivity

S2 Episode 2: No State for Our Nation


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We discuss the challenges the Shona, the Rohingya, and the Uyghur communities face as stateless peoples and the systems that created their statelessness. Also, Teresa tries to throw a wrench into Vana and Simmy’s friendship, Simmy defies our episode structure by reclaiming her time during a mini do-better in the news section, and Vana is leaning in to her #WarmHug brand. 
Content notes: 

We mention some distressing news stories. This guide provides some suggestions for how to cope with traumatic news events.
We advise any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners that in the news section we mention the name of a person who has died.
In our Making Sense of Systems segment we discuss topics that may be distressing to some listeners, including human rights abuses and sexual assault.

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In the news
For the second time this year, national elections in Spain have returned a deadlocked result. 
Two people in Beijing have been diagnosed with pneumonic plague, which is even deadlier than the infamous bubonic plague. 
A whistleblower has revealed that Google now has access to identifiable medical information of up to 50 million people as part of a data sharing deal with US health care provider Ascension.
Roula Khalaf will become the first woman to edit the Financial Times in its 131-year history when the current editor steps down early next year. 
A lawsuit has been filed a former employees of McDonald’s against the fast food giant for allegedly creating and sustaining a culture of systemic sexual harassment. 
The Zimbabwean government has fired more than 200 doctors who have been striking since early September. 
A 22-year old political science student set himself on fire outside the student aid building in Lyon this week to protest poverty among university students in France. 
Last week the police in the Northern Territory, Australia shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker in the town of Yuendumu. There have been protests across the country and a police officer has now been charged with murder. 
A new Ebola vaccine has been approved in Europe and has an effective protection rate of 97.5%.
There have been recent devastating wildfires in California, USA and bushfires in New South Wales and Queensland,
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