Smith’s Kushti Podcast
Episode Archive
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#06: The death of Stanislav Tomáš - Police Brutality
We find out more about the details surrounding the death of 49 year old Romani man Stanislav Tomáš. We also discuss the wider issue of police brutality directed towards Romani people across Eur...
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#5: Romani Resistance
On the evening of May 16, 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, SS guards armed with machine guns surrounded the area of the camp designated for Roma and Sinti prisoners. Their int...
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#4: 50 years after the First World Romani Congress
Lifelong campaigner & co-founder of the First World Romani Congress Grattan Puxon tells us what we can expect from this year’s online congress, what symbolism we gained from the first one an...
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#03: Romani Feminism
Five Romani women from the USA, UK and Germany come together to discuss acts of resistance, feminism, women’s rights and the vast amounts of potential Romani women have for generating change – n...
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#02: Hanau is everywhere!
In this episode, we explore the dark undercurrent of far-right extremism in Germany and pay tribute to the victims of the Hanau terror attack on this one-year anniversary. We chat to 22-year-old...
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#01: Commemoration and remembrance in 2021
In this first episode, we meet our host Lisa Smith and uncover how covid-19 pandemic is fanning the flames of anti - Roma sentiment in Germany and across Europe.