SIM Ep 127 Chops 41: Refugee Week 2018
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Standard Issue
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🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello Mickey here, welcome to Sunday Chops. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to skip the preamble about all the other lovely ear stuff we've got for you on |
| 0:42.0 | A-caste cast iTunes and other |
| 0:43.5 | podcasty places because you know the drill let's get straight to the meat of |
| 0:48.5 | this week's chops this week is refugee week okay okay today, if you're listening to this on Sunday, |
| 0:54.9 | is the last day of refugee week 2018, so we are squeaking this in, |
| 1:00.4 | but in all honesty, the refugee crisis isn't going anywhere fast. |
| 1:04.0 | According to a recent UN report 68.5 million people were displaced last year. |
| 1:10.0 | 68.5 million people forced to flee their homes. |
| 1:13.7 | That's 3 million more people than the entire population of the UK. |
| 1:17.8 | And more than half of that number were under 18. |
| 1:20.4 | Obviously the current focus with regards to displaced people is on the US-Mexico border and the |
| 1:26.6 | Trump administration's abhorrent zero tolerance immigration policy that is seeing children, |
| 1:31.9 | babies even, separated from their parents. |
| 1:35.0 | In fact, at the time of recording, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their |
| 1:39.6 | parents in a five-week period. |
| 1:41.9 | I was lucky enough to grab time on the phone with Laura |
| 1:44.3 | Kirk Smith, director of communications at the International Rescue Committee Europe. |
| 1:48.6 | And after the mid-roll add you'll hear me chatting to Yasmin Cardi, a musician and actor originally from Sierra Leone. |
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