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The DivideThe struggle for press freedom in Myanmar (feat. Adam Bemma)In February 2021, when Myanmar's military junta staged a coup, they opened fire on civilians and arrested and killed journalists who sought to inform the world about the unfolding events. Fast forward to today, the regime’s brutal treatment of its own people persists, but so does the reporting by Myanmar's media outlets. Journalists continue to operate under extremely dangerous conditions, delivering uncensored news both within and beyond the country's borders.
This week, Adam Bemma from the independent underground broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) talks about the challenges faced by independent media organizations and the rise of ci...
2024-09-1200 min
The DivideThe struggle for press freedom in Myanmar (feat. Adam Bemma)In February 2021, when Myanmar's military junta staged a coup, they opened fire on civilians and arrested and killed journalists who sought to inform the world about the unfolding events. Fast forward to today, the regime’s brutal treatment of its own people persists, but so does the reporting by Myanmar's media outlets. Journalists continue to operate under extremely dangerous conditions, delivering uncensored news both within and beyond the country's borders.
This week, Adam Bemma from the independent underground broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) talks about the challenges faced by independent media organizations and the rise of ci...
2024-09-1200 min
The DivideCaught in the crossfire: The ongoing plight of the Rohingya (feat. Adam Bemma)In February 2021, Myanmar's military junta staged a coup d'état, dissolving the reformist parliament and imprisoning State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, the country has plunged into a bloody civil war and the Rohingya community's plight continues.
In this episode, Adam Bemma, a media development consultant for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), discusses Myanmar's complex political landscape, the history of violence against the Rohingya, and the media's role in reporting on the situation.
2024-09-0600 min
The DivideCaught in the crossfire: The ongoing plight of the Rohingya (feat. Adam Bemma)In February 2021, Myanmar's military junta staged a coup d'état, dissolving the reformist parliament and imprisoning State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, the country has plunged into a bloody civil war and the Rohingya community's plight continues.
In this episode, Adam Bemma, a media development consultant for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), discusses Myanmar's complex political landscape, the history of violence against the Rohingya, and the media's role in reporting on the situation.
2024-09-0600 min
DVB English NewsNewsroom: The death of Pe Maung Same and the future of documentary film in MyanmarMyanmar documentary filmmaker Lay Thida and DVB Bureau Chief Mon Mon Myat join English News managing editor Adam Bemma in the DVB Newsroom for a roundtable discussion on the tragic death of award-winning filmmaker Pe Maung Same, and the recent life sentence handed to Shin Daewe, and what this means for documentary film in Myanmar.
To learn more about the Pe Maung Same Film Fund, go to the Facebook page, or email info@pmsamefilmfund.org.
To watch DVB Short Docs, go to DVB TV News YouTube channel.
2024-09-0228 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw: On Inspiring Youth In BurmaThis interview was recorded by Adam Bemma at Phyo Zeyar Thaw's office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma) in June, 2017. Phyo Zeyar Thaw, 41, was a Burmese hip hop pioneer, political activist, and politician with the National League for Democracy Party from 2012-21. He was executed in Myanmar on 23 July, 2022.
2022-08-0101 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw: On Hip Hop Music In BurmaThis interview was recorded by Adam Bemma at Phyo Zeyar Thaw's office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma) in June, 2017. Phyo Zeyar Thaw, 41, was a Burmese hip hop pioneer, political activist, and politician with the National League for Democracy Party from 2012-21. He was executed in Myanmar on 23 July, 2022.
2022-07-3002 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw: On Creative Dissent In BurmaThis interview was recorded by Adam Bemma at Phyo Zeyar Thaw's office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma) in June, 2017. Phyo Zeyar Thaw, 41, was a Burmese hip hop pioneer, political activist, and politician with the National League for Democracy Party from 2012-21. He was executed in Myanmar on 23 July, 2022.
2022-07-3003 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw: From Rap To Resistance In BurmaThis interview was recorded by Adam Bemma at Phyo Zeyar Thaw's office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma) in June, 2017. Phyo Zeyar Thaw, 41, was a Burmese hip hop pioneer, political activist, and politician with the National League for Democracy Party from 2012-21. He was executed in Myanmar on 23 July, 2022.
2022-07-2904 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastIntroducing Audiophile s02 - Myanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw In His Own WordsThis is the trailer for Audiophile: A Story-Based Podcast s02. It will feature four episodes of Myanmar's Phyo Zeyar Thaw sharing his story from an interview I did with him back in 2017.
2022-07-2800 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastRohingya Human Rights Activist On Ending Impunity In Myanmar - INT CLIPYasmin Ullah is a Rohingya-Canadian human rights activist, poet and author. She speaks about the pursuit of justice for the Rohingya, and all of Myanmar's ethnic minority groups, by ending the impunity enjoyed by members of the Tatmadaw (military/armed forces).
2022-07-2601 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Ma Nandar On Why You Should Start A Podcast - INT CLIPMyanmar's Ma Nandar hosts the feminist podcast "G-Taw Zagar Wyne [Nosy Women's Discussions]." In this episode, she encourages young people in Myanmar to start their own podcasts to give them a voice, and shares some tips on how to start a podcast.
2022-07-0201 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based Podcast'Myanmar Diaries' Film Documents Life Under Military Rule - REPORTMyanmar Diaries is a 2022 film documenting the lives of people defying the February 2021 military coup. Earlier this year, it won the Berlinale Documentary Award. Now, Myanmar Diaries can be submitted to the Oscars. The film was made by the Myanmar Film Collective, a group of anonymous filmmakers based inside and outside the country.
2022-06-2201 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastProminent Myanmar Social Media Influencer Jailed but Unbowed - REPORTWin Min Than is a Myanmar beauty blogger and social media influencer. This story includes interview clips with Win from 2017 when I featured her in my CBC Radio story on young people pushing for social change, in a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy. You can hear it here: https://soundcloud.com/adambemma/myanmar-youth-seek-social-change-cbc-the-world-this-weekend?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Win was arrested in April 2021. She's jailed at Yangon's Insein Prison.
2022-06-0803 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Armed Uprising: The Birth of the People's Defence Force - REPORTNeo is a Myanmar rapper and member of the People's Defence Forces. Following the violent crackdown on non-violent protesters, Neo fled to the Thai-Myanmar border to receive military training. He's fighting to oust the military junta that has tried to gain legitimacy since its 2021 coup d'etat.
2022-05-2402 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Pirate Radio: Activists Take Back The Airwaves - VOX POPEi Thinzar is the founder of People's Radio Myanmar. Hnin Sett is an assistant producer at Federal 90.2 FM. They discuss the hardships of broadcasting news and information, via online and radio airwaves, to the people since the military coup that overthrew Myanmar's National League for Democracy government.
2022-05-1701 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastUnderstanding Thai Media Coverage of Post-Coup Myanmar - INT CLIPPim Koetsawang is the director at Friends Without Borders, a foundation providing humanitarian support along the Thailand-Myanmar border. She explains how Thai media coverage of Myanmar has improved drastically since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar.
2022-04-1800 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastUnderstanding Discrimination Against Myanmar's Muslims - INT CLIPNyi Nyi Zaw is a democracy activist and former political prisoner. He speaks about the discrimination Muslims face in Myanmar.
2022-03-2800 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastUnderstanding Myanmar's Humanitarian Crisis - INT CLIPCynthia Maung is the founder of the Mae Tao Clinic based in Mae Sot, Thailand. She discusses the challenges faced providing free health care services to the Burmese migrant and refugee communities since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and 2021 military coup in Myanmar.
2022-03-1900 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastUnderstanding Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide - INT CLIPRo Nay San Lwin is a Rohingya human rights activist and journalist living in Germany. He discusses the change in attitudes towards the Rohingya following the 2021 coup d'état, including awareness and acknowledgement of the genocide committed by Myanmar's military.
2022-03-1400 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastVietnam's Assault Against Online Activism Continues - INT CLIPTrinh Huu Long is the co-founder of Legal Initiatives for Vietnam, a group advocating for democracy, civil society and press freedom in Vietnam. He speaks about how the crackdown against Vietnamese human rights activists and journalists have increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and has led to the silencing of any online criticism of government policies.
2022-02-2500 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastSelf-censorship in Singapore and across Southeast Asia - INT CLIPRobin Ramcharan is the executive director at Asia Centre, a research institute for social impact. He discusses how self-censorship began in the mid-1990s as governments like Singapore began to crack down on free expression online. Now "netizens" across Southeast Asia must think twice before speaking freely on social media.
2022-02-1900 minAudiophile: A Story-Based PodcastMyanmar's Cyber Security Law & Eroding Digital Rights - INT CLIPWai Phyo Myint is the Myanmar representative at Access Now, a digital rights organization. She explains Myanmar's new cybersecurity law and how digital rights have been eroding since the military coup one year ago.
2022-02-1600 min
Audiophile: A Story-Based PodcastCambodia's 'Netizens' on the National Internet Gateway - VOX POPCambodia's National Internet Gateway comes into effect this week (Feb. 16, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the government). All internet service providers in the Kingdom will have to route traffic through one central government portal. This vox pop was recorded on the streets of Toul Tom Poung, a neighbourhood popular with netizens in the capital Phnom Penh.
2022-02-1300 min
Listen to The LancetRohingya in Malaysia: The Lancet: January 11, 2018Adam Bemma discusses his world report on the Rohingya refugees' attempts to settle in Malaysia.
2018-01-1206 minListen to The LancetRohingya in Malaysia: The Lancet: January 11, 2018Adam Bemma discusses his world report on the Rohingya refugees' attempts to settle in Malaysia.
2018-01-1206 minListen to The LancetRohingya in Malaysia: The Lancet: January 11, 2018Adam Bemma discusses his world report on the Rohingya refugees' attempts to settle in Malaysia.
2018-01-1206 min
rabble radioFree assembly: Queer Edmonton, Slutwalk and CasserolesJune is pride month and while Pride Celebrations have become a party in lots of places, the event got its start in June of 1969, when queens and dykes at New York's stonewall tavern had finally had enough of police harassment and started to riot. Well, a new book celebrates another piece of queer activism, this time in Canada's heartland. The Loud and Queer Cabaret is an annual event that has been featuring queer artists and writers in Edmonton Alberta for the last 20 years. The Alberta government has a history of taking overt stands against human rights, and the...
2012-06-0431 minrabble radioNo activist slowdown for summerThere are very few humans who don't enjoy music. For most people, it offers relaxation, inspiration, enjoyment and in times of trouble, solace. Leah Abramson is an activist and documentary maker who works with women in prison, fostering their musical expression. In the documentary we're about to play for you, she takes us behind the prison walls to hear some of the music created by the women there. The Human books project aims to increase understanding between people. It's held at local libraries, where people volunteer to act as books. When you're a book, library-goers can sign...
2011-08-1825 minrabble radioPuttin' it out thereIn this podcast: an ethics expert on the importance of hate speech, eco-defenders stand up to corporate greenwashing, talking access to content with Canada's Pirate Party, and truckers with something to say. Not to mention some hard rock from the '80s, and a delicious taste of Montreal hip-hop! It's been a little while since Ann Coulter's speech at the University of Ottawa was cancelled because of concerns for her safety due to angry crowds. Coulter herself was the one who pulled the plug on her appearance, but she's filing a human rights complaint because of the...
2010-04-1328 minrabble radioThree Cs of Human Rights: China, Colombia, and CanadaIn this podcast: How a Canada-Colombia FTA affects trade union activists in Colombia, Denise Chong about an activist's life in China, and preserving the history of resistance in Canada's Africville. The Canadian Union of Public Employees has been working to prevent the implementation of a Free Trade deal between Canada and Colombia, because of the human rights abuses in that country against labour activists and indigenous peoples. Berenice Celeyta is a human rights activist in Colombia, and the director of NOMADESC, the Association for Social Research and Action in Southwestern Colombia. She is a winner of the...
2009-10-2030 min
CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts82 - No Construction without Consultation - February 5, 2009Amidst Canada's whirlwind of infrastructure development, Adam Bemma brings us a cautionary tale from Montreal of construction without consultation, and the growing frustration of residents in the city's southwest.
2009-02-0514 min