.  beautifully �  Kelsey  backlog xe arta Mars ят  ان You are just over bedding your government.  To create employment, it has to be outside government. That is where you create employment. Because to do that, you create industries. To do that, you have to come up with effective farming strategies. To do that, you need to come up with return. Unfortunately, this government, they don't know about this. They don't know about these things as if the data in the issue level is not coming from the private sector. You can't tell me that you are creating employment in the public sector. And this is what IMF has been talking about. That you know you have employed too many people in the government. Can you reduce on that? And unfortunately, they are increasing on that. It's true. Some of these employment, it's good for them. But what I'm insisting is that employment, the significant creation of employment must be done in the private sector. And this government is killing the private sector. How are they killing the private sector? Since they came in, when they just came in, they labeled all those people who were doing business with the previous government, they labeled them corrupt, thieves ineffective. And instead, they have embraced the foreigners. They have embraced the foreigners. Since this government came in, they have paid more foreigners than Zambians in their so-called debt dismantling process. They have prioritized the foreigners. They have been paying foreigners. They don't pay Zambians.  Kuliva kapokola. Kuliva kapokola beans. Namayo āyapungula beans somewhere. āyapungula faucet quotas. And up to now, he has not been paid because they are saying they are cadders. Now this is unacceptable. This is unacceptable. You can't come and label everyone a cadder corrupt. And this is why, my brothers and sisters, if you have not realized, this is why we are having shortages of medicine.  All these are corrupt. And now they have been looking for people that can supply medicine. But medicine is not something that you can supply like timber. Even Zeskovali ācita. No, Zeskovali ācita cannot be supplied by anyone. It is supposed to be supplied by experts with certain regulations in place. And for somebody to qualify to supply medicine, you need to be certified. You need to be given a license. But immediately they came in. They said, no, we are not going to work with them. And they started going around the country. I have information. They went to Switzerland to go and ask if they can buy medicine directly from there. And they were told, no, we have agents that supply your country. You can't buy directly. And in other countries, people respect their citizens. They don't like government-to-government kind of thing because they want to empower people. And yet here we have a director at Zesko and his colleagues na Pita Kapalawine. They are saying, no, we can't give zambians. We can't give zambians to supply post. We can't give zambians to supply post because they are middlemen. He is Pita Kapalawine. I excuse him because he is an engineer. So maybe some of these things, he may not be familiar with them. What do you mean when you say middlemen? When myself, if I get an order from Zesko and then I go and buy from a manufacturer, I supply to Zesko, do I become a middleman? Then who is a retailer? Then who is a retailer? And that's why clearly we have retailers and wholesalers. This is very clear in terms of business. There are those who are wholesalers. There are those who are manufacturers. And there are those who are retailers. And there is nothing like middlemen. There is nothing wrong for Zesko to give a truth. For example, to go and buy from a manufacturer and bring it to Zesko. Because when you do that, you are creating employment. You are creating a livelihood first of all for me as jirupatari and my family. You are also creating employment for the people that have employed. You are also creating employment and a livelihood for the transformers that I am going to engage. If you hire a company which is outside the country, that country will start by looking and working with the people that are out of that country, including transporters. So even the transporters are cut out. Even to some extent even the clearing agents because we know especially with the mines, they have created to more companies which they call Zambian companies. And yet they are the owners. And they use these companies to clear their goods. They don't use Zambians. It is the same in the transport sector. In the transport sector, this fuel that we are talking about, we have companies here who are supposed to go or MCs and they are supposed to be contracting Zambian businessmen or Zambian transporters. Instead they have got tracks. And these tracks are the ones who are transporting their goods. My brother and sister, the things that I am talking about, these are facts. I am belaboring to make you understand how this government has been a disaster on many fronts. On many fronts, look at the things that I have touched on. And yet the data in the HLMA can dare say that we are moving forward. They are messing up the economy. They are giving this economy to the foreigners because the debts, they are paying the foreigners. Business, they are paying the foreigners. Another person said, no, Zambians they overprice. There is what we call price index now. There is what we call price index. So you simply say, if you have to supply a heat timber, it will not be more than 1,500. And that is what will go. That is what will go. So where is the issue of Zambians overpricing? Tell them how much you want them to supply. Tell them. No, some Zambians have not supplied. Who are those? Let's arrest them. Let's arrest them. Let's prosecute them. So in my view, this government is a mess. It's really a mess. It is a disaster. I am declaring this UPND government a disaster government, a new darkness. A new darkness, not a new dawn. A new darkness. In many France, there is nothing, I wish a minister would come here when a computer can call us. For example, they said no. We want to empower Zambians. We want to empower the youth. Armour licences to the minds. They are closed down. Why?  Or Black Mountain. Let's give it to the entire copper belt. It is a mess. What is happening at the copper belt there? And the Peter Kabus is sitting there enjoying himself and making all sorts of, you know, rhetorics that the Black Mountain is better managed. The Black Mountain is a disaster now. It is a disaster. And the Peter Kabus must recognize this fact and sort out the mess that is causing at the Black Mountain. Mind you, I want to caution Peter Kabus. Isn't it Paul Kabus? Paul Kabus, I want to caution him. He has to understand the history of the copper belt. Copper belt, if you remember in the past, there was a high crime there. And the high crime was somehow reduced with the help of the Black Mountain.  The mess that is causing in the Black Mountain very soon, very soon we will have a high rate of crime in the copper belt. And Peter Kabus because he is protected by the Zambia police, he will not be affected. But the people there will suffer. So I'm calling upon Peter Kabus Paul Kabus that please, can you go to the copper belt and sort out that mess. It is really a mess. My brothers and sisters, there are a number of issues that I can touch on. But I think I've demonstrated to you that this government is a disaster. It is a disaster. President Haqqai in the Ichirima is a disaster. He is a disaster. And he should not flatter himself to think that no, he's doing well. No, there is nothing that he can point at. You are celebrating the other day. No, we have released money for CDF for the first quarter. This is second quarter. This is second quarter. So if you want your CDF to work, you must give money at the beginning of the quarter, not at the end of the quarter. How does that help you? How does that help the people? You are talking about free education every day by UPND free education, free education, free education. The teachers, a number of teachers have not been put on payroll. A number of teachers have not been put on payroll. That is to start with. We are talking about that money and grants to the government schools have not gone. They have not gone. Headmasters and the headmistresses are now struggling to run the schools. So how are they going to run the schools? Just by saying, no, no, you can go to school wherever they can go to school. You have a frustrated teacher, what education is going to be there? It is a disaster. It is a disaster. So on the economic front I can tell you UPND is really a disaster. They have made things worse than where they found it. And they can argue, they can say whatever they want but these are the facts that have that have laid down on the table. So the last issue that I wanted to say I wanted to discuss now is to say with all these things that have happened with all these things that have happened it is time for the opposition to wake up it is time for the opposition to wake up and I am appealing to all my brothers and sisters to wake up and I am appealing especially to those in the so-called UPND alliance those who are in the UPND alliance Listen, ... Be like KBF and start operating on your own to those young people who are looking for a political party to join them everything for us now .... but I don't think this is time to be on sabbatical this is time to wake and I am calling all Zambians ƒ 1949 stylist కర్చో స్ట్ట్ చ్ప్న మగ చేట్ప్నచి మాటpectedజ原  inscription on the commerce in the ѕకర్ట్హ్తోి చ్రస్జ покупmaking చానిమా よし జప్� х౉స్యారం ఘూపతట్కామేని స్కిమ� Management ഀ്ിഗ ഉനായ് ന്യ് ഇ്ലിലായ്യ്ടാ്. കി്ാണ്ന്. കനായ് ക്യ്്ര മഞാരിയ്ിപാിയ്കി നാരലിന്.


Okay, can you hear me all right? So just for curiosity who's what's the breakdown here? How many seniors do we have in the room? Okay. Yeah, so you're kind of steering this down in the face. It's it's crunch time How many of you have a good idea of what you want to be when you grow up? Excellent. All right. That's one. Hey, that's good, too. Maybe. All right. That's great. Yeah Michelle. Yeah Yeah, well the reason the reason I asked this is because I came to Fairfield in the midst of career change and I really thought I thought for a while I knew what I wanted to be and then I realized that I didn't really think now that wasn't gonna work I was gonna do something else and And so the opportunities that I had here. I think were really Really shaped me in in in significant ways Today when I was getting ready I work at in a digital humanities lab at Yale University It's an experimental sort of thing we're trying to do something for Research in the humanities that's done a lot in the sciences and it means that I spend my days Asking questions in the humanities using and answering those questions using computers in some way And so I was asking around the room and one of the advantages is I get to work with a ton of talented amazing people and So I said I was coming here this evening and I was speaking and I and I said, you know How many how many languages do we know they're about five of us right now two postdocs in the lab and and We have a designer user experience person and and so we started going through the list and I write this down I'm I wrote it down just so that I wouldn't forget We have working in the lab Hebrew people there are people who know Hebrew French Swedish Finnish Norwegian Italian German Chinese Mandarin's and I don't know the difference like how that works, but they were keen to point that out and Spanish and also Portuguese and so that already not to mention then C++ Ruby on Rails all the artificial right all the programming languages, which I thought was really interesting that there was this compatibility right between people that have That are accustomed to learning human languages how easily they take that also to Programming languages programming languages actually are are pretty much a cinch because computers are really stupid So it's not it's not nearly as difficult as learning a human language the other thing that struck me though was study abroad I asked my colleagues and Three of us were Rotary exchange students in high school one of one of The students was an Erasmus fellow. That's the European equivalent And then there was another one who had done she did study abroad in Japan Oh, that's right. I didn't put Japanese in there that she did study abroad in Japan While she was in college So it's just to give you an idea that this is not we're not talking about a part of a university that is focused necessarily on foreign languages and in fact We have we bring to bear though all of that knowledge That we've all brought with ourselves On our own work, and I think it's I think it's really I think it's really important I know that that was important for us when we were hiring Our most recent developer we were hiring someone we needed someone who knew how to speak to humans and to machines And so one of the one of the criteria that we established was well He's got to know at least a couple languages because otherwise it'd be kind of embarrassing for him too, right? and and and that was and that was really it wasn't just about the knowledge of the language It was also the idea of a worldview This is the field that I'm working in right now is sort of an experimental field my PhDs in Italian Language and literature, but I'm now working in a field that is really has yet to be defined and so I Like to think that we're kind of making it up as we go along But by the same token you also need a very high tolerance for being able to communicate clearly being able to tolerate a Certain amount of risk, you know take a little bit of risk in your work being able to tolerate a certain amount of Ambiguity and these are all things that I think have come along with me as a result of both my language learning and my time spent abroad I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that the Support that I received from my Language professors and then colleagues here at Fairfield Was absolutely transformative for me It it really gave me sort of the idea that you know, this is something that I can do That there this is this is something that I can reach for and I think that That's something that is established within a language classroom many times You see your language instructors far more often. You're forced to embarrass yourself far more often in front of your language Professors they come to know you As you start out speaking like a two-year-old Spanish actually no two-year-old Spanish children speak better than you were speaking But still you you start to learn and and you you're in a space where you're allowed to grow and stretch yourself in In really significant ways and I think that that too also when it comes time and and your instructors may not May not like this or not, but when it comes time for a letter of recommendation I would definitely hit up a language instructor because I think that they can speak to your Cross-cultural competence they can speak to your communicative skills and they can speak to your hard-working ethos Because you know after having gone through your language Require that your requirements for the major or for the minor that you definitely have a certain level of Hard-working Initiative within yourself, so I'll stop at that if you'd like to ask questions afterwards I'd be more than happy to answer them both on digital humanities and on changing careers I think that many of you may find yourselves 10 years 15 years down the line in a similar position But for now, I'll see it to my ex-classmate James


Good afternoon. I'm really pleased to have been here and I want to thank most of all your presence, your interest in Cuban literature and Cuban art, but the friends of the San Francisco Library have been, you know, opening these horizons for us to meet and to exchange. I will read some poems. I would like to thank both Tony Ryan, who has been the coordinator of this visit, especially Sara Cooper and the people of the Cubana Books. They have been doing a wonderful job in terms of publishing young female Cuban writers. I am not the youngest. But as you know, it's very important to know that our youngest generations have a relationship and an interest for my writing. I have to say, too, that this documentary made by Juana Maria Gordones Cook from Uruguay, but based in Colombia, Missouri, was made with Rolando Estevez from Ediciones Pijillas. I'm not going to add nothing more than that. And I wanted you to know, to explain that I think it would be really my medic, you know, to read, I love my master, because you have heard my voice reading it in Spanish. As you all know, I'm a Cuban. I live in Havana. I was born and raised in Havana. My mother tongue is Spanish, so it will be my pleasure to read my poems in Spanish. And then this friend of me, she will be reading the English translations by Pamela Carmel from San Luis, Missouri. This is a booklet that you will have. And I would like to start with a poem dedicated to one of the subjects, you know, of the so-called black poetry or Afro-Cuban poetry in the 30s of 20th century, especially the movement that was led by Nicolas Guillen. I do it in a very personal way, because the importance of the toys of my poems in these books' edition is that there are lyrical poems in which you can receive the inner feelings of a black woman, a black woman in Cuba. But I'm not talking in a very, how could we say, a conventional, traditional way, like in these two poems, like Black Woman and I Love My Master. So I would like to begin this reading. I will read in Spanish. Of course, I'm sorry for my English, which is more or less the English I learned in school. It's a foreign language. We don't speak English in my island. It's an exception of, you know, what happens in other Caribbean islands, which have an English-speaking expression. El tambor. Mi cuerpo convoca la llama. Mi cuerpo convoca los humos. Mi cuerpo en el desastre como un pájaro blando. Mi cuerpo como islas. Mi cuerpo junto a las catedrales. Mi cuerpo en el coral. Aires los de mi bruma. Fuegos sobre mis aguas. Aguas irreversibles en los azules de la tierra. Mi cuerpo en plenilunio. Mi cuerpo como las codornices. Mi cuerpo en una pluma. Mi cuerpo al sacrificio. Mi cuerpo en la penumbra. Mi cuerpo en claridad. Mi cuerpo engravido en la luz vuestra libre en el arco. My drum. My body summons the flame. My body summons the smoke. My body in disaster like a gentle bird. My body like islands. My body beside the cathedrals. My body up in the coral. Faces of my sea mist. First fire upon my waters. Waters irreversible in the blues of the earth. My body in full moon. My body like the quails. My body on a feather. My body to sacrifice. My body in shadows. My body in full sun. My body weightless. In the light, your light free in the arc. Thank you so much. Very good reading. The next poem is dedicated to the memory of a neighbor, a female neighbor of all Havana, really disturbed by ruins and some uncomfortable things that we do have in our city, in spite of all the efforts and the things we do. So this is this period of resistance in my way. Her name, the name of this woman was Nelida and is dedicated to the memory of a cousin, a very beloved cousin, Angel Roberto Hernández Rivera, who was the one who typed and discovered my diary in which there were my very first poems. So my very first book was died by himself and published in Edición Angel Puente in 1962. But he used to live also in all Havana and he had a very tragic death. Nelida. Era la brisa de la primavera, Inelida, callada, se asomaba el balcón todos los días. Siempre fue así. Inelida, como las tarimas del mercado, asomaba el balcón. Así era siempre. Nelida, recostada las barandas de un vetusto balcón sin dueño, hablándoles en la madrugada las voces del pregonero, sin que su voz llegara a mis oídos. A paisada, desde su densa piel, iba saliendo un humo hasta la luna. Era la brisa de las misiones, tocando a cada puerta, preguntando por la sombra de Nelida, pequeña, con una flor junto a la sien. Así estaba por siempre, acodada el balcón. Pepe Romera pasaba cabiz bajo, pasaba y glamenchaca, sin levantar sus ojos del portón. Pasaban todos bajo la enramada, sumergidos sus cuerpos en un río de sonidos. Pasaba una brisa de mar clavándose como una cicatirice. Siempre fue así. Chiquitica ambulante atravesando la parlante barbería de los Taylor sobre la esquina el espejo y el drill del primer Guillermo. Manrique con su más antigua barbería, con Guillermito adentro, menor y acompañado con su bata blanquísima y la esquina. Manrique con sus rejas charriantes como gatos mojados por un agua del cielo. Un buen día, esa brisa del mar paró su rumbo para asomarse a los balcones de Manrique, a los balcones de una mujer tostada por el sol, de una mujer con sombra y sin canteros, una sola mujer pequeña y sin palabras, a quien llamaban Nelida todos los que pasaban, los que volvieron a pasar, los que pasamos y seguimos pasando bajo el balcón de Nelida. Paso y reclamo su vista fija en el andamio, Nelida con sus brazos de ahorcada. Vuelvo a pasar buscando un arcoíris, paso de nuevo y al pasar levanto la mirada y paro yo también para buscar refugio sin tampoco saberlo en el balcón de Nelida, ya sin brisa marina, sin su Manrique y sin su flor, que desapareciera sin saberlo. Una tarde sepultado su cuerpo por los escombros implacables de un techo, sepultado su cuerpo por los escombros del dolor. Nelida.  That's how it always was. And as if it were a stall at the market, Nelida appeared on her balcony. It was always that way. Nelida leaning against the railing of a rickety old balcony no one owned. At dawn answering the strolling vendors, shouts. Though her voice never reached my ears, her body stretched out, smoke rising off her dense skin all the way to the moon. A breeze was blowing down Misiones Avenue, knocking on every door, inquiring about the shadow of Nelida, a small woman, with a flower behind her ear. She was always there, elbows resting on the balcony. Pepe Romero walked by downcast. Ilda Menchaca walked by, not raising her eyes from the doorway. Everyone walked under the arbor, their bodies submerged in a river of sounds. A sea breeze passed by, latching on like a scar. That's how it always was. Chiquitica, flitting here and there, strolling past the tailor's chatty barbershop. On the corner, the mirror and Guillermo, Sr., in his twill suit. Manrique Street, with its barbershop older than time, and Guillermo inside, busy with a customer, in his gleaming white smock on the corner. Manrique Street, its railings screeching like cats soaked in a downpour. One fine day, the breeze stopped in its tracks and appeared on the balconies of Manrique Street. On the balcony of a woman, browned by the sun, a woman with shade and no flower beds, a small, solitary woman with nothing to say, called Nelida by everyone who passed by. Those who walk past her balcony again, we who pass by again and again under Nelida's balcony. I walk by and cry out for her gaze fixed on the scaffold. Nelida, her arms dangling like a hanged woman's. I walk by again, searching for a rainbow. I walk by once more, and as I do, I raise my eyes. And I too stop, not realizing I was seeking refuge at Nelida's balcony. Now, with no ocean breeze, without her Manrique Street, without her flower. Since she disappeared, not even realizing it one afternoon, her body buried by the implacable rubble of a roof, her body buried by the rubble of pain. Cantares. Desde el cantar de los cantares, muchos quisieron confinar la poesía, pero el cantar de los cantares, y lular de las jirafas en las unglas, la salvaban, la acariciaban, la traían suavemente de la mano hasta depositarla en el segundo más fugaz de hoy. Buscando la verdad, la poesía fue creando la más antigua herancia, y vagó sola durante muchos siglos, por los siglos de los siglos, desde el cantar de los cantares. Nadie la pudo contener, ninguno pudo hacer la suya. Nadie siquiera logró domesticarla, ninguna la pudo interceptar, solo el pájaro azul de la mañana. Songs. Ever since the Song of Songs, many have tried to lock poetry away, but the Song of Songs, and the ululating of giraffes in the jungle, saved her, caressed her, led her gently by the hand, then nestled her in the most fleeting second of today. Searching for the truth, poetry was forging the oldest nomadic path, and she wandered alone for many centuries, century after century, ever since the Song of Songs. No one could hold her back, no one could make her his, no one even found a way to tame her, no woman could waylay her, just the little bluebird in the morning. Ondomar, entre la palabra y el silencio, hay un ondomar, un océano de posibilidades en fin. El habla y el sonido se torna una sola luz en el atardecer. Los poetas, en cambio, arrojados a ese ondomar entre la palabra y el silencio, se dejan empujar por un sinfín de plumas. Los poetas, ahora convertidos en pájaros multicolores, inician por fin su diálogo infinito entre las plumas y el silencio. Deep sea, between words and silence there is a deep sea, an ocean of possibilities without end. Speaking and sound become a single light in the afternoon. Poets, on the other hand, cast into that deep sea between words and silence, are pushed along by no end of feathers. These poets, now changed into multicolored birds, finally begin their everlasting dialogue between feathers and the silence. Now the poem that entitles this collection, this new collection of poems. How many instincts in Spanish? Querencias, which means things that we love, things that we prefer, things that are always with yourself. No el cielo, sino su sombra tumbada sobre el agua. No el mar, sino su sombra hundida en las profundidades. No las arenas, sino su sombra amiga. No el monte amigo, sino su sombra dentro de la noche. No el fuego, sino la sombra de su lengua metálica. No el viento, sino el húmedo arco de las islas. No el fantasmas de las casas abandonadas, sino la sombra de un trasmundo. No el todo, sino su única sombra sobre una piedra única. No el sueño entero, sino su larga sombra parcial, vagando hacia el comienzo de una breve quimera. Ninguna lengua, sino el rumor violento suave de cada palabra. No la música toda, sino el sonido inmemorial de un canto fijo. No en nuestra voz, sino en la voz de una niña hechizada por la mágica alfombra de la libertad. No el rayo del ciclón, sino la sombra del relámpago sobre el arroyo. No la cascada, sino su hebra de plata cayendo en el abismo. No el abismo, sino el salto del equilibrista ya sin aliento. No la palma en la verde llanura, sino su soledad a la sombra de un manjuari perdido. No el laberinto, sino el grito de sus espejos. No el aguacero de los planetas, sino la lluvia escoltada por los vapores del verano. No la costa mojada, sino la sombra de la recipe en su espera sin fin. No el puñal, sino la sombra de su filo en tus ojos. No el ser supremo, sino nuestros seres queridos dibujando su propia sombra cada día, lanzando un ancla virgen al borde de un puerto cualquiera de este mundo a esta hora. Homing instincts. Not the sky, but its shadow lying back on the water. Not the sea, but its shadow submerged in its depths. Not the sand, but their friendly shadow. Not the friendly mountain, but its shadow deep inside the night. Not the fire, but the shadow of his metallic tongue. Not the wind, but the damp arc of the islands. Not the ghost of the abandoned houses, but the shadow of an afterlife. Not the entire scene, just its shadow over just one rock. Not the whole dream, but its long half shadow drifting toward the start of a brief chimera. No language, but the violent or soft murmur of each word. Not to all the music, but the age-old sound of a song, fixed not in our voice, but in the voice of a little girl bewitched by the magic carpet of freedom. Not the lightning bolt in the cyclone, but the lightning's shadow across the stream. Not the waterfall, but its strand of silver falling into the abyss. Not the abyss, but the leap of the tightrope walker already out of breath. Not the palm tree on the green plain, but its solitude by the shadow of a lost Manwari gar. Not the labyrinth, but its mirrors crying out. Not the downpour from the planets, but the rain ushered in by the steamy air of summer. Not the damp coast, but the shadow of the coral reef in its endless weight. Not the dagger, but the shadow of its blade in your eyes. Not the supreme being, but our loved ones drawing their own shadow every day, casting a virgin anchor at the mouth of some port in this world at this moment. Lianas, peces y algas. Camino sobre el río, la luz del sol alumbra suavemente. Me sida por un gas de extraña flores. Lianas, peces y algas, voy vogando. Una fuerza me empuja y no lo sé. Un marino de cobre me contempla desnudo. Me sida por un gas de extraña flores, voy vogando entre peces, lianas y algas. Estamos lado a lado mirando hacia la orilla. Unas mujeres hablan, otras mujeres cantan. Tú y yo marino nos dejamos llevar, nos dejamos llevar. Camino sobre el río, caminas sobre el río. Aquellos ojos nos señalan, sus pupilas desprenden el fuego más profundo. Una fuerza me empuja y no lo sé. Una fuerza del agua nos arrastra. Allabamos hundidos, allabamos hundiéndonos. Allabamos hermosos entre las dulces aguas del río. Lianas, peces y algas. I travel on the river. The light from the sun shines softly. Rocked by a clutch of strange flowers. Lianas, peces y algas. I row along. A force pushes me on and I don't realize it. Naked, a copper sailor gazes at me. Rocked by a clutch of strange flowers, I row along among fish, lianas and algae. Side by side we are looking toward the shore. Some women are talking. Others are singing. Sailor, you and I are swept along. We are swept along. I travel on the river. You travel on the river. Those distant eyes are fixed on us. Their pupils flash the deepest fire. A force pushes me on and I don't realize it. A force from the water drags us along. Sunken, we go on. Sinking down, we go on. Beautiful, we go on through the sweet waters of the river. This will be the last poem very referred to the subject of I Love My Master. It has to deal with slavery. But it's the result of slavery in the psyche of a slave. We always listen to the consequences and the social problems, economical problems, political problems that come from slavery. But I wanted to get into inner feelings that happens in your psyche, like in the case of I Love My Master. This is a very different poem from I Love My Master, but it's the background in slavery. Así lo cuentan las leyendas. Las pisadas del antílope cuando avesina su elegancia alertan al cazador que espera a gasapado y trémulo. Así lo cuentan las leyendas. Pero y tus pisadas y tus sigilosa aparición esas me toman por sorpresa. Me asaltan para siempre a gasapada como el cazador, trémula como la hoja de hierba sin palabras precisas, sin lengua como un bosal del siglo XIX. So the legends go. The footsteps of the antílope as its elegance draws closer alert the hunter who lies in wait crouched down and trembling. So the legends go. But what about your footsteps and your stealthy approach? All of that takes me by surprise, forever assails me, crouched down like the hunter, trembling like a blade of grass without the right words, without a language, like a slave just off the boat in the 19th century. Very much we would like you to react or you know the last part of this boy to read it should have some time for questions you may raise or commentaries or whatever you may like. Or if you want me to read another poem of a book I would do it. It would be my pleasure but I don't think so in general what we teach in the schools are the so-called classics and not the contemporary. I am meaning by that that of course Cuban literature cannot be taught without the presence of Jose Martí or the modernist poets. In our case modernism has nothing to do with the Brazilian modernism, but it deals with Ruben Dario and Nicaragua and the modernism influenced the Spanish generation, the so-called generation of 98. And even that one of 1927 would do, teach Nicolás Guillén of course, we do teach all the movement of poets of the 30s which deal with Afro-Cuban themes like Alejo Garpentier, Regino Pedroso and even a very young female poet that lived in Key West, Juana Guerrero, very important for the group of originals for José les Amalimas, for Elisio Diego, Fina García Marrús. Then there is the generation of Paolo Armando Fernández, Roberto Fernández Ritamar, Rafael Chacón-Nardi, Jair Ginerrera and then mine. I'm not young anymore as you all know but the official programs for teaching literature don't focus on contemporary literature. Sometimes what they do is just to, you know, especially in book fairs, we have a very huge book fair and we do organize workshops, whatever, you know, the ordinary life of a literature. But young people, they have scholarships, they have possibilities, great possibilities of editing and, you know, placing their work. But the official programs for studying Cuban literature stops in the middle of 20th century. No, we were saying this morning that I was born in 1944, can you imagine? And there was a mistake for someone there who said that I had a century. I would have liked to have 100 years like a character by Gabriel García Marquez, but I don't have 70, only 70. Yeah, but I will never forget one of the very first interviews that García Marquez gave in December 1982 after receiving the Nobel Prize. There was a journalist that asked him, which are the worst times for a writer, the most difficult times for a writer, and he answered the very first 40 years. You know, it's really difficult to write and to publish. I mean, there's a difference, a big difference between writing and publishing. They should be more or less together, but sometimes there are many, many writers that they publish later and later from the time they created their own texts. That's it, yes. How do you know that? Let me tell you, let me be honest. And, you know, I trust in inspiration, at least for poems. You cannot write a poem every day. I sit down maybe longing to write a poem, but it doesn't come. It's not a problem that I want to write it in. It comes and you accept its presence. But you have to feel free yourself. Novelists and short storytellers, they have another kind of craft, another kind of discipline. They need to write every day, at least a paragraph. They need to create the portrait of a character, whatever. They need to listen to the spoken language in order to save the flavor of talk, because characters talk, like in the theater. So, a poet is a very difficult thing and I confess here that if I don't write often, I'm not worried. I know that sometime in the future it's gonna come again and I will be completely absent of the environment in which I will be to write the poems that may come. And if they stop and they don't come anymore, well, that's very important. What cannot happen is to negotiate, to fall into what is called the so-called market, because a poem, an artificial poem, cannot reach the reader and cannot reach publishers and editors. When you are writing from a good willing and especially from a truth, each person has a truth that has to say. So, if I start to, you know, make a mise-en-scene, you know, to make like a theater, that's very bad, because it's not you, it's not honest. You need to be transparent and you need to trust in your lines and you need to read, you need to cultivate your technique. That's a very important tool. You write sometimes, I have an inspiration. I write down several lines and I hide them in a drawer. There's a time, times goes by and I got them again, take them again and rewrite what I wrote. But there is the strength of inspiration which is very important.


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A really cool tool a lot of people don't know about Google Docs is that there is a real-time word count. Let me show you. So you know Google Doc. Click on tools and then click on word count up here, or you could do the keyboard shortcut there. All right. So when you, this is the word count. Now click on this checkbox down here, display word count while typing and click okay. So now when I am typing, okay, it automatically updates the word count and down here I set it to characters, but I can click on characters and click on words instead, you know, and it will give me a new number of words. And again, I can click on this again and select characters if you like. So give it a try, play around, let me know if you have any questions.


Great. Well, I'm so grateful to the Muslim Community Center for offering to show these photos. I've been hunting around and trying to think, you know, for a long time of how I could share them and if people were interested in seeing them. And sure enough, definitely the Uyghur community here was eager to see the photos. So we showed them once to Uyghur families only and now we're broadening it to the greater Muslim community and others to come and see. So thank you so much for coming. I had a great time in East Turkestan. It was just so, so wonderful. So the photos are, Kathima and I have been struggling to get the photos in order and there's a sort of a flaw in the setup and it's really, even with his computer skills, we're not able to get them into the right order. So, you know, I'll sort of jump around in terms of the chronology but initially, you know, the slides start with my trip across the Taklamakan desert to get to Tutifan was the first town I went to. So let's go ahead. So we actually, this first photo is of the bus I took, which is, whoa, and then we jumped. It's a little out of order but this is one of my first photos in Tutifan and you can see there's a Chinese military officer on his motorcycle. I thought this photo was very symbolic of the fact that the Chinese were watching out. I mean, I was totally, I and my friends were totally free to go wherever we want, which apparently is not the case at all now. You're interrogated by the Chinese authorities when you come to around that area according to a friend of mine who just went there. But at that point, you know, they would just, someone in uniform would appear sometimes in the photos, but I was free to go wherever I wanted by myself and meet people and interact freely. So, and this is a marketplace, the small marketplace in Tutifan and I took this photo because I love, the kids' haircuts were so wonderful. I loved the way they shaved their, the back of their heads and they shaved their heads and girls differently than boys. Here's a gentleman at the market and you know, lots of vegetables. The food, the food in Han China was really pretty tasteless at that time, unless you went to Beijing. There were some good restaurants there, but mostly it was canned fruits, canned vegetables and everything cooked in coconut oil. But so when I got to East Turkestan, I was just so grateful for the vegetables and the wonderful breads and the kebab. It was really nourishing after a couple of months in China itself or a month in China. And here's some kebab makers and here's a handyman type thing, repairs, etc. with his family and here's a little girl getting sugarcane, right, and also a wonderful haircut. And this guy was a traveling entertainer and he was talking and talking about what was in this bag, whatever it was, and he kept banging the bag and so I stood around with the crowd waiting for him to open up the bag and surprise me. But he went on and on and on and on and finally I gave up and went somewhere else. He took too long. So I don't know what was in the bag. So just a background, most likely what it was, it's probably, you know, people used to tell stories, long stories and probably was one of these stories that he's telling and sometimes they use different ways like maybe that what is in the bags are related to the story. Somehow he's trying to make it kind of symbolic just as a background.  I love this bread. I see you're nodding your head about the bread. The bread was so good. It was such, there was just no bread in China. It was all white rice so it was really a treat. I kind of went crazy for the bread salesman here taking a snap. Things were slow in the afternoon and here's women chatting in the sort of front porch area of their homes, which were, what would you call them? Cassie and you'd go, they were sort of interior atriums or corridors with rooms all around. So these women are out front and that's one of their cradles, their beautiful cradles.  And that's how I was like raised actually. Very cozy. So this is kind of a very traditional house and every real family once you go in from the outside door, they usually have the front, I would say front yard, but it's kind of enclosed and it has, they have most of the times they have grapes and, you know, not for wine making but just like really sweet grapes to eat as a fruit. Here's a grandmother and her grandbaby that we met on the road and two young dudes. It was the bell-bottom era and, you know, a little later than in the United States but they were, I have a photo later on of two young women and they just look really stylish compared to, you know, I think in Han China they were still under the influence of, you know, Maoism and everybody dressed very plainly and the women had these blunt cuts whereas, you know, I enjoyed the Uyghur, they seemed to, you know, take pride in how they dressed and how they looked and they looked really great like these two guys. Mother and baby and along the Oasis, maybe could you explain how water was transferred to Turfan? Oh yeah, as you know Turfan where she actually first, you know, took the bus, Turfan is actually in the, you know, if you look at the map it is the first city that majority of population there was Uyghurs compared to Han Chinese that you come to and Turfan is, you know, is a city where basically there's no, like, the only way to get water is to use the underground water and from far mountainous areas and our forefathers what they did is they dug the underground water tunnels and, you know, connected village by village and they built up so intricate water canals to bring water from far and far away and to make the Turfan is an Oasis place to live and then that air and that Turfan's hot air with the water coming from underground is just a right environment for grapes to grow and become like the raisin and Turfan's raisin was famous, like, you know, in my hometown, you know, when we eat raisins we all say we just buy Turfan's raisin because that's the best and the way they grow it at the same time the air, the dry air with the water only coming from like underneath tunnel and then the temperature in there is like very dry at the same time you can make it so that you can, you know, there's water coming from, not from above, but from under and that environment makes it as a just right place to, you know, dry the grapes, make a raisin and in Uruguay it's called Kariz, you know, when you say Kariz everybody knows in Uruguay it's underground water system. I'm going to try with my mask on because like I can understand Pasir and let me know if you'd prefer I take the mask off, just being careful. So up here is a woman with her baby with those beautiful little cradles. Can you hear me with my mask on? And the little kids in Turfan and in Kashgar they were they were just all running around. There were, you know, I don't remember any paved streets in Turfan or in Kashgar I don't think which is I looked at photos of Kashgar today and it was like oh my god highways and cars even I mean all we had was the donkey carts at that time and the kids just ran around in the streets a little gang having fun chasing the geese like in this photo so they they were pretty free I think. And here's a guy with his daughter piled high on top of the veggie whatever kind of vegetation that is probably on the weight of the market I think this beginning of the market shot. Yeah this is everybody sort of assembling for the market in Turfan which was smaller than the Kashgar one but it was still it was still fun. And that evening we had these performers come and they were just wonderful and Kassim recognizes. Yeah he's a very famous person this person is one of the famous you know a kind of a duet singer and a dancer and pretty famous guy so everybody recognizes this man. Yeah and he came to our little hotel. See that means star guests. Oh yeah oh from the south okay yeah they were very professional very talented and really into their roles. This guy was one of the best drummers I've ever seen heard. He was fantastic and you can in the photo you can sort of see the sweat on his brow he was really working hard. Do you know what that drum is called? It's a hand drum it's a snake skin hand drum. We say duck but it's right and he would toss it up in the air sometimes and catch it. Yeah it was a fantastic show. So you know once again you have a Chinese person I believe who's in the front just checking things out but they were pretty low-key back then at that time and then the next day there was another performance in our little hotel and these guys the dancing is so wonderful it kind of reminded me of Greek dancing so I you know maybe there's a sort of a silk road Middle Eastern influence in the style of dance. Really beautiful dancing and once again this guy playing but the hammer dulcimer was really good. I mean the talent was wonderful and I don't know what's happened musicians now but in in East Turkestan but back then it was possible to hear some really fantastic music. That guy was just great. So just as in a background you know when she's saying what has happened to musicians now it kind of reminds me that a lot of famous musicians were taken to concentration camps because the the music they they you know performed has somehow related to some sort of like anti-government kind of so so so if you from this you can see everything is politicized to a point that you know if you you know if it doesn't sound right to them whoever the government and you're not allowed to perform and just as a background formation. There was a really famous let's see what's the name of the main instrument the guitar. Yeah very the most famous musician died in prison I think recently right. Rumored that he died. And the rumor spread that he will die and then the next day the government allowed him to speak but he's not performing anymore. But he can't perform. I think you you can hear him on YouTube right. Can you hear him? The previous performances you can watch but not the ones I talked about. Do you know his name do you remember? Abdulim. Abdulim Hayd yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah he's like the kind of think of it as in the U.S. which should I like the who's the guy who just recently passed away the Nash Johnny Nash. Johnny Cash. Think of it as Johnny Cash if we were you know like like really kind of you know man tough music and very like you know kind of in U.S. kind of Western culture kind of music but you know Abdul. Abdulim it is more like very down to earth extremely popular among you know we were the folks and that kind of music so he plays the guitar the instrument she's talking about. So let's see I'm just looking at my notes oh okay so um from Tour de Fond I took I don't know how I got there maybe a taxi or the one car I saw in Tour de Fond. Anyway I got a ride to the famous Bezeklik caves which were religious caves with Buddhist frescoes inside and this is the route on the way there. Yeah just to background like before Islam came or before Uyghurs became Muslim they were actually Buddhist and it was in historical notes even in Chinese historical records it shows that it's the buddhism's actually came from India along the Silk Road all the way to China and the Silk Road the famous Silk Road that you see is exactly what she visited actually from Tour de Fond to Kashgar all the way the Silk Road and that's where one of the area that it shows the buddhist heritage and that's what she's talking about here. So the mosaics a lot of them have been damaged but a lot of them are in excellent shape I think we weren't like allowed to go inside because I have no photos of the murals but a lot of them were moved to museums in Europe so you can see some of the museum mosaics in Europe actually. Yeah mostly in Germany and Sweden during the great game period between Russia I mean the Soviet Union and all the European powers England British Empire and at that time a lot of expedition came and took went there and carved up all the wall paintings and just you know took them to wherever they came from. So here are the entrances to the caves and this is on the way back and I came across some people farming in the fields and I wondered if they were you know was this a Han Chinese collected farm of some kind but you're you're you're very much on the point I mean at that time 1984 is the time that you know China has not opened up to the world to as you see today like all the policies that you have that was pre like real it's starting to but not really yet so this is more like a collective farm that everybody needs to come and work because government asks them to. Although you know the fact that we were able to go to East Turkestan meant that I would assume that Deng Xiaoping was you know wanted to open up more minority areas of the country to tourism and that's why he decided to open it up so it was part of part of that opening up that we benefited from so then I went to Yarkoto not sure I'm pronouncing it right but it's an ancient city from the second century to the 13th century and it was an important stop on the Silk Road until it was destroyed by none other than Genghis Khan so this is all that's left of it and there I am in the distance that's the only photo I have of me she's so humble she doesn't want to you know be seen in there and you can see the Buddhas in the top part the headless Buddhas here I am again even smaller oh now this okay this I think is the beginning of the slideshow I think this is the Taklamakan Desert and those are the mountainous which I didn't write the name down of the mountain the flaming mountains yeah the flaming mountain that's what they say yeah they were beautiful so this is the scenery I saw on my two-day bus drive to Turpan and this is one of the people I met a few working camels and if you I can see the the characters over there it says you know it's a it's it's a little hotel I would say motel and Kasim pointed out that the man who's holding the camel is a Kazakh because that's that's the kind of hat style is the style typical style there are a lot of Kazakhs in in East Turkestan and they're also being persecuted and this was an intersection to where did we we thought I thought maybe it was going to Qinghai province is that possible that is possible that's also that's also possible where it's you know it's it's it's actually the southern part of East Turkestan where you know in there's like three roads cross section one is to the south the other one is up north where you say Qinghai where the Tibetan is yeah so and this is where I spent the night I thought it was a caravan Sarai I was getting I was getting a little too romantic about it but apparently Kasim thinks it was just you know a motel built by the Chinese because it's a long way to East Turkestan anyway it was pretty primitive and these women wanted me to take pictures of their babies which were so cute this is a nice woman I met on the bus and the bus driver wanted his picture taken too so now I think okay so then I went into Tutorfan and then I took another bus I guess to Kashgar which was immediately felt busier and more active and fuller this is about the most paved road I remember seeing seeing there and this is near the downtown of Kashgar this is how it used to look is there any of this still standing now this kind of yeah you pretty much like what you took in 1984 as a matter of fact it's it's only exists on pictures like this in our my memories and people's memories it's totally like like destroyed when I said totally destroyed I meant like these kind of areas residential area is gone no more it's all skyscrapers it's apartment buildings and that's you know people have like driven up to our house and given like oh okay we'll build an apartment for you and you know you can get that one one unit for this and things like that so it's that's that's the current situation at least 10 years ago when I got back home when I visited back home which at that time were allowed to I can't even recognize my my the building that I where I grow up I just can't see I lost the total sense of direction and where things are it's like a foreign place to me so basically my you know like like every way horse childhood memory and all of this it's just totally gone and here's Mal actually this was the only statue or graffiti or any kind or flag or any kind of evidence of Chinese dominance there they just have this statue which was sort of like a sore thumb in the midst of this wonderful traditional city and this statue of this statue of Chairman Mao still stands as of today it's in the heart of Koshkar there's one of the you know Koshkar is it being one of the important route on the Silk Road the center and that statue was still there it's actually the right in the heart of the city that like you can say people square so here's more of the you know walking along this residential streets of Koshkar and those are no more by the way just it's totally gone the quality of these photos is not great sometimes like this but it gives you an idea of what what the housing looks like then there was a tea shop down below where several gentlemen are having their afternoon tea and here are the famous fibrous trees yes fibrous trees Koshkar is an oasis city and it was just lovely it was really beautiful walking walking along these paths in between the cypresses whoops and now we're jumping around a little bit here's more of the residential area and here are some kids now this is in two of them oh well doesn't matter but anyway here's some kids playing along the oasis and this is in the central square yes so you know a donkey would never survive going through the central square of Koshkar now so on Saturday there was a big regional market and people from all around East Turkestan came including these women the women in Koshkar itself were less traditional and they were scarves but they didn't wear the burkas is that the correct word term for it burka yeah so those are like based you know those women with the full covered is usually a come from outside the Koshkar city for the sunday market to do uh sell their things and to do buying things like that so much more traditional mostly a very mostly likely it's from the countryside around the city and uh here I hopefully this is a series of shops that I really enjoyed walking by and having a look and Koshkar is known uh famous for handcrafts uh knife and all of the utensils and all of this handmade like very uh the name of itself Koshkar the name of itself kahishkar means the name the city of the clay so you will see soon that there's a lot of clay you know your utensils and clay uh you know tiles tiles and things like that yeah there's a brother and a sister and sort of a junkyard I guess and these boys are working in a shop that sells wedding chests those are wedding chests yeah you know you have to have the one of those if you want to get married otherwise a woman is not going to agree you know and it has to be filled up with clothes and beautiful nice gifts and jewelry and things like that and then you have to put it in a little lock and then the key has to be opened by the woman a nice shop or I guess they're bargaining oh sharpening a nice sharpening please thank you and this guy is man is very proud of his beautiful knives and saddles really beautiful ornate saddles another hardware store and in the middle is a group of young pioneers which is uh also you know Chinese influence there there were young pioneer groups in China I think also in Russia I think it's sort of a communist thing exactly that's how Chinese communists learned from Russia and with the whole you know marching band marching band and the red gotta have a red scarf red tie you had to um here with my favorite noodle shop I really I really liked the guy serving noodles and the noodles were great and the man was very handsome and we went there every day to get our noodles and this shop was kind of interesting because I think when I came there and took this picture I was it felt like you know how you come to a place and you feel like people are having a conversation and the conversation sort of stops when you arrive and I kind of you know I mean I think they people were already politically active and communicating about their situation of course ever since um East Turkestan was taken over and went was it in 49 yeah 1949 so you know obviously there was um concern and resentment and you know communication between people at that time and tea tea shops in China also are sort of a famous for places where people come together and they eventually start talking politics so so this is the beautiful mask in the center of it still stands today because this is one of the famous mask in the entire region actually um it's almost a century old almost and it come it go means the name of itself means you know place of um you know a celebration or place of festival you know hate you know hate right it's a god god means a place you know so okay a little out of order here's another shop this is my favorite shop it's um he's selling all sorts of herbalist yeah um apothecary and you can see the dried lizards and there's a dried bat yeah this guy can treat you for any kind of disease yeah any kind but his shop was so beautiful i this really beautiful shop and here's a call to prayer in front of a mosque and behind him are the tiles the famous kashkari tiles that kassim was talking about yeah this is one of the another famous mosque it's called apacoja mosque and this is also considered one of the places that we would visit even though the history is a lot of you know during the apacoja time a lot of bloodshed happen and people majority of them know that it's not a proud history but a lot of people still do believe that he's some kind of a holy saint man and still visits i mean at that time 1984 but not now so here we are back in central kashkari with the eat calm mosque yeah this is a beautiful picture i like that and uh a man preparing to pray this is inside actually this is inside eat calm mosque people are doing i don't think i was supposed to be in there uh travelers are allowed as long as they don't disturb yeah and now yeah they're beginning to pray and these gentlemen hung out in front of the mosque probably every day right sorry yeah yeah they've grown up together actually last time when we showed this for we were local we were community they came here uh some of them recognized them said oh i know this person i know this guy he was there every saturday he was like yeah i know i i see maybe saturday friday or something friday now we're back to the other yeah the apacoja mosque again i it's a little further out of town right and these are these are apacoja mosque that you saw the the door the tile beautiful bluish tile thing you saw you just it's there it's a cemetery it's a cemetery near the apacoja mosque and so family each family would purchase or have made one of these beehive shaped yeah it's it's called a family uh burial so what they do is generational and after like new generation they still reuse the place they put their bones a little bit inside and then they reuse it uh that's uh you know if you look a little if you see a little kind of cone like it's it's for a family extended family members yeah this is a tile and uh back in town there was a a group of musicians selling their instruments and uh actually i bought this guitar or one of one of his guitars and then at at the last showing i gave it to a we were musicians yes from from here because it was just sitting in my house and what's what's the point you know so i was really happy to give it to someone who would play and enjoy it this guy played beautiful beautifully now i'm forgetting the name row up row up row up beautiful row player so here are the little kids in kashkar all you know a little gang of them always sort of hanging out together and i love the little uh cart that the the little baby is in this wonderful put together handmade cart so these these were the guys and two little girls and uh at at a certain point i i attracted a lot of attention so that's what sort of i i can't i'm really amazed that i raised my camera to take a picture of people because it was sort of an uncomfortable situation but i think they were more curious about my camera which was a big old Nikon you know the old-fashioned Nikon yeah imagine 1984 this is just just the beginning to open up uh to allow visitor come and visit and they have never seen right like somebody with the camera are taking pictures and for them it's like whoa what is that here's some some other men hanging out together by the way as a context right now you cannot wear this kind of traditional clothes and you cannot grow a beard uh as well just you can't you you have to shave here are the kids again running around i i like the guy who's who's saluting me and and then the little boy in front has that sort of shy but smart but grinning but kind of shy about it look on his face and he is so tiny oh my gosh and there they are chasing after trucks but the last time i presented it to the Uyghur families several of the men were laughing because they had they remembered doing that when they were a little boy you did too yeah getting a ride from the truck and here's another type of hammock cradle yeah best hammock ever oh yeah so here is the march into kashkar for the saturday market and here's the parking lot it's very true that's how we used to go to market with the donkey cart you know we just park it there and and there are people who like say okay you put it here and then we charge charge you like a few cents in a dollar so it was very crowded compared to the to the fun market it was just packed with people as you will see and here's a country woman selling some various hardware and barbers all working on these three men and then one two three so change the photo there down all at the same time they may be racing who can be fast so here are some of the things that were set for sale in the market these are goats yeah animal market yeah it was the animal market and this man had a goat for sale and they all they also sold horses which they would you know dress up in beautiful blankets and and then calcine said they would ride them around yeah they they usually have a section of the animal market where they sell horses and they have a kind of horse track that you can just take our for a ride and then you know test drive it test drive it and sort of show off how beautiful and strong the the horses so that's what this guy is doing camels finding out how old the horse is by checking his teeth and even pigeons they sold and you know maybe you could explain what's going on here with the third man what is the role of the man in the middle yeah like in a in a market like this especially you know if the item is you know kind of big ticket items like you know they usually have a people who makes deals you know kind of talks to both sides and you know come to like have them to come to a deal somewhere like meeting the middle and things like that so that person is talking to the both sides like you know you need to come down a little bit or you need to go up a little bit and then it makes a deal that's how they make their own money you know at the end of the day after the deal is made better than we'll give you and like okay here you go thank you for making the deal for us and you know things like that and you just to sell our fire never look for this guy just just show off you yeah if you have that ability if you have the ability just go to the market and then you could make few bucks and you know things like he's paying such close attention though i love the way look paying so much careful attention to what each one is saying and they're very dramatic sort of like italians you know they're bargaining and listening in people listening in carefully to the negotiations and a deal is made a deal is made you know handshake and here's another bargaining session happening two lookers on i i said at this remind i i looked through some of my photos of european art to it because it kind of reminded me of some of the like 17th century artists like velazquez or something you know where they show the simple shepherd worshiping that jesus or whatever it's sort of reminded me of that anyway it was lunch time and everybody was eating samsa which you can see by the man bringing a a handful of samsa out and they're really delicious and well why don't you talk about samsa you have more experience yeah i mean i samsa is the only food that you cannot find anywhere outside east turkistan and that's why every time when i see samsa or talk about samsa i feel like you know just i really want to have them yeah we have oh you have some but it's not the same don't get don't get but this center is made in tandoori yeah i told them this is tandoori yes it is tandoori oh okay oh okay oh interesting yeah once again the silt road all this communication and sharing i loved the women's beautiful long scarves they were kind of dressed up it's a sunday market yeah and this man offered me a melon some melon now this man is making or boy is making what lakman lakman and it is it is a noodle it's we hold noodle it's a way the handful noodles you know and that's how you do it like you keep you know making it you keep making it like you know twirling twirling around and then the you know the dowl will become really really nice and kind of resilient and then you can start making like spaghetti noodles yeah they it was you know he's looping it so it would loop around around and around oh there we go you know like that it was great all right and this is making samsa and the two men would take turns putting the samsa in the clay oven so they go up and down back and forth yeah this is what i'm talking about you cannot you we don't have it here you know i mean yeah but what is there something that makes it hard different so now he's comes up and the other guy goes down and then so after lunch we came back to the main area and it was just packed we were really stunned at how many people were in this one place all discussing and debating you know negotiating and socializing and there's some bargaining going on in the middle of this scene and um he is about to they've just come to an agreement the two men in the center i think so and then i looked down and here was staring up at me the whole time i was madly taking pictures i really liked the kids there so um we were lucky enough to be invited to a wedding which was just so nice i mean it was it wasn't the wedding itself it was a celebration afterwards and this is the um oh god what is it i'm blanking on it roll up that i purchased and that i gave to your friend here and this guy was a wonderful performer was performing it there and there was a little orchestra playing it was getting dark so the and dancing i mean different men took turns dancing in this small area and then they had a feast and here are my two friends american friends that i was with and i really like this picture i think this woman is beautiful i mean her fur hat is so beautiful and her scarf would line with pearls and her grandsons listening carefully to her yeah that's how like when i was growing up and i'm sure a lot of we were here growing up you know our grandmothers trust me exactly like this you know like uh spoiled the grandkids yeah yeah was a fashion at that time i didn't know it should be a fashion again i think it's so nice and you know i think about her and she she was able to live her traditional life all her life another little girl oh well we're sort of out of order but anyway here's a field of wheat i paint yes outside of kashkar oh and here's okay we're jumping to the airport this is the airport in kashkar which doesn't look like this now and i don't think they allow flocks of goats on the runway anymore yeah right right yeah it was late spring so good and here's a crowd of people who i were not waiting for an airplane because there are too many of them and the airplane was very small but i think just came out to see the relatives arrive or just to see see the airplane's land and take off most likely the airplane because that's just probably just the beginning of you know that you know something is flying in or airplane they probably this i've seen planes for the first time in their life okay this is the first photo in to turfan i wanted to sort of introduce the idea that uh donkey carts were the main types of transportation so here here it is the doc the classic donkey cart and a donkey cart gone off the road to drink water now here's another i got the entrance yep it's a masjid and i think it's in tor one of the masjid and torfan i think it's in kashkar but i'm not sure we're jumping around now photos are out of order but anyway i thought it was small and beautiful and this is again in kashkar right and these are sort of more elaborate family burial yeah yeah these are for like for example you know in a neighborhood or any you know if there's like a bigger family who is the imam of masjid or or like some respected elders and whatnot they usually have this sort of uh you know structure two little girls in to the fun and here's a here's a shot i uh i wanted to show earlier but anyway it's uh i was impressed with the you know i was talking about how nicely dressed the way were i even with their simple clothes and uh you know they're not expensive materials or anything but they knew how to put them together you know jean bell bottom jeans a nice skirt and a jacket and little high heels they just looked really great bye i think that's the end of the show that's the end of the show all right well we'll start the q&a now and if uh i wanted to raise your hand i'll bring them up to you so they answered all your questions coming to you hi everybody um i'm wondering how much of what we just saw in those photographs still remains is it like almost nothing or half or does anyone have any sense of today if we were to look at these places what would they look like in terms of the traditional Uyghur architecture and the mosques and the cemeteries no i think you know as a matter of fact like what you've seen in there consider it from if you say one to ten consider it probably nine of them are gone one of them probably one percent left uh well the reason why i say so is a one percent is i can see the eight-gar mosque is the only structure that is standing in there that's from what i know but all the other places that you've seen all of the like fields country sites all the mud brick houses all of this is is totally it's it's redone to uh with a cement structure skyscrapers and uh you know apartment buildings and whatnot and roads and things like that so think of it just like nine of them is no more so if you like for example for someone who grew up here like me ten years ago i couldn't even recognize my neighborhood like let alone it ten years ago i can't recognize my neighborhood you know i can't find the roads and i feel like i'm in a film man so does that mean that the majority of people who live there now are han or is it still primarily uh Uyghur so this is the area where you know it's really hard for us to come up with the number and all the numbers the government publishes are not i don't know how do we verify it or trust it or not but i'm just going to quote there what they say in their papers uh in 1939 uh and in in china's official paper the uh the the number the percent of a chinese population in east of kistan is six percent six percent but in i think i saw that data in um i think 10 years ago it's uh it's not a up to date there but 10 years ago they said now the chinese percentage is 46 percent so think about it it's uh you know it's in in in like a half a century uh the number has gone to from six percent to 46 percent and that's what the china's government says in the official paper paper and documentation uh but right now you know who knows uh we have no way to know hi there uh first of all thank you for having this event um uh came to know it through basura and we're appreciate uh inviting us so i actually to be very honest was very ignorant about um the Uyghur community and and their their history i've learned quite a bit today um and reading on the website so thank you for those photos uh i'm just curious from a cultural perspective do how do you how does the Uyghur community here continue to thrive and and maintain that heritage because it's kind of an interesting cross-section of the turkic culture islamic culture the mountainous culture and then now with some of course a bit of the east asian chinese influence how do you maintain that culture and then is how many people are left around the world of that origin well that's a good question i mean i've been here for um honestly for 20 more 20 or so years and uh our community has grown from a few families to uh maybe around a few dozen families over the 20 years or so um but we're just trying to come to grips with the reality that you know our culture is back home is uh almost in the verge of being wiped out and uh is continuous getting the situation is getting worse um but at the same time that gives us a some sort of a you know that gives us a um a kind of understanding that what we had is not as bad as they claim it is um because a lot of chinese going like the Uyghur people have grown up as as as much as the chinese people growing up in china brainwashed to a point where tradition uh religion um uh your heritage is is like an opium like you know the it is something that you you it's bad the the the thing that is good are the things that communists always believe that is good uh most of the time they they what they indoctrinate you is like government is like your parents and take care of you whatever they say you need to believe it and trust it and things like that but we wish to come here uh now what actually uh you know the more we hear that they are suppressing our religion culture and language actually rivers around the world including this day area like the small community with the help of peoples like you organizations like this uh we've been able to have children schools for kids teach our language practice our religion and uh in whatever way that we can to preserve our culture and religion that's what we have been struggling right now but beyond that one of the interesting things that we're facing is we're facing a situation where one of the strongest force in the in the world is against a small minority they saw it as a culture they see it as a uh as a blocking thing in their in their plan to expand like one road one belt initiative of the Chinese government what they have done is one of the reasons I see is they see we lose this threat to their future development and when they see it as a state threat and that's what they have been doing they have been suppressing they have been you know uh brainwashing they have been like uh really treating them harshly since 1949 but since 2017 they took it to another level to a point where now we have the power we have the money we have the resources and the world is not going to do anything about us because we're strong nobody is going to say anything and now we started to do whatever the plan continuation the plan that we can and they run it up about officially their their own official paper they said about a million people in concentration camp it's in their paper but now we say it is about three million people originally they government uh even didn't recognize that existence of those camps but they called it so-called re-education centers training centers and we have seen people who graduate the training centers a majority of the people who are able to escape are people who are married to foreign nationals who have foreign ties or who are citizens of another country like Kazakhstan these are the people we're knowing the extent to which what they're doing to weverse we have never seen one we were who have no ties whatsoever with outside world well it are able to get out and tell their story not single one if you see all of this in the forum media on all of this all of them have somehow tied to some foreign countries canada australia germany uh us uh kazakhstan they are the people who came out and telling this story and based on what we're hearing it is just unimaginable and uh i i'm sorry oh okay so how are you working with i mean the global powers that are allowing refugees and is there an effort or initiative in underway are you collaborating with other nations or peoples that feel the similar challenge i mean this is not um this is not something that um is i won't say it's not that's not unique but i'm i come from the Sikh community so i can very much relate to what you're speaking about and so i know there's many people around the world that could relate so i'm just curious how are you working with those communities to build bridges to help rescue these these folks is it are the Uyghur community recognized are they being supported yeah i mean we're communities recognize this they're very supportive as we speak there's an over tribunal international tribunal going on in uk uh has been witnesses being called upon experts called upon to testify and gather information to um you know have uh you know those cases documented uh so that you know truth be known and uh and then or perpetrators are are you know uh uh investigating what not there are a lot of ongoing uh efforts going on not only the community like the grassroots community level but at the same time uh in washington dc we have a center there we were strong organizations uh they're working with uh you know the people in the government to bring up this issue up and united states are very well aware of what's going on and they have been actually the forefront of supporting Uyghur causes and recently they banned a lot of products made in the concentration camps like cotton products and whatnot in the news and there are a lot of things going on i mean not that we're just you know as a matter of fact 20 years ago when i say Uyghur nobody knows i have to explain it to them in a lengthy way but now if i talk to 10 people that i'm i'm say i'm Uyghur eight of them knows and that's that's that is to a point and i feel like yes i mean the world is noticing it you know even though as bad as all the media social media is bringing all the bad things to us but at the same time it is actually helping you know a lot a lot of positive way to make this kind of situation known among people governments uh you know organizations and yes we are definitely because this is not only like you said this is this is not only Uyghur problem you know this is a problem of humanity at the end of the day the chinese people i have a lot of chinese friends i told them you you guys and uh actually they they say we were in the worst situation i said yes i i i can see because but i can i tell them you guys in an even worse that situation than me because you guys didn't even know that that's the problem you know we recognize it's a problem and we're trying to do something about it but the chinese people brainwash to a point but they don't know it's a problem and i bet you in a few years time the chinese people will wake up and say enough is enough you know you cannot brainwash it to a point that we lose our humanity we're human right you know no matter what you say you know we were so human i want them to leave in peace and that's what we've been trying to do i mean 9 11 one of the i mean 9 11 just passed one of the horrible event as a matter of fact 9 11 we were suffered to a extent to a point where china used 9 11 to totally crush we were totally and that's the time when the u.s government president bush which i have no respect at all in a way he agreed to the chinese government that we characterize certain sets of the we lose who happened to be outside china was trying to do something about the injustice they agreed to characterize them as a terrorist organization and then and that way they brought 25 of we were innocent we were from pakistan they rounded them up pakistan in pakistan they brought them guantanamo and there's like 27 we lose our health in the guantanamo prison all because of 9 11 and we lose all the one ours our situation start the worst nightmare for we were started at 9 11 and now now if you see like chinese government go around and to muslim world and say hey there are terrorist people you don't want to help them you know we have terrorist problems that's not a but for we lose is just we just want to live in peace we've been living in peace for centuries with chinese centuries you know we've been sometimes we're invading them sometimes they invade us but we're believing as a neighbor i mean and that's what we wanted to continue to live in peace and but now we become the obstacle of the chinese superpower of a one-board one-road initiative and we're somehow became kind of backward and not forward looking and now they're trying to eliminate the culture and and as an example when i speak if if i can i'm not able to directly call my mom but if i am able to call my mom and say asalaamu alaykum they they will take her to the camp i can't even say that right now i mean that's to the point it's kind of ridiculous point right i mean when i say this people say how can that be you're lying it's impossible i said i i hope it is impossible i mean i really hope so but if if you if you hear people you know being taken to the camp just because they probably prayed or they fasted or maybe they said asalaamu alaykum to someone i mean that's just something he meant to me and i call like this is not only with a problem like i said it's it's a humanitarian problem all the chinese brothers and sisters back in china one billion of them they have the most responsibility because they didn't they need to know that is inhumane they need to hold their government responsible just like in the u.s when in the u.s when we see something about the government we take to the streets we do whatever we can to help them in responsible that's it that only happens in democratic government like this but in china it's not the case and i hope someday it happens right um actually it's a little bit addition to what khasankam said about uh about your second question so well um we have a few organizations and group of people in dc they've been trying like everything they can like we are screaming as loud as we can but uh so it's just like you didn't get enough attention so we know what happened in syria a lot of people suffered and like when that happens countries like germany united states a lot of countries like except thousands of people and in united states there are less than 1000 acres and some of their application status has been suspended for seven or eight years and it's never resolved and other companies like coca cola nike uh they've been publicly supporting china when we asked them to stop forced labor and nike even said oh nike is uh i think what i said was nike is a company of china for china and uh coca cola the same thing and the visa like american company haven't been doing the same thing and the facebook um kind of like censor veegers on behalf of china and google youtube kind of like does the same thing and sometimes it's just hard to believe there is humanity left in the world thank you thank you for sharing such a powerful image it's my um i have a question for you um so it seems like it's spendable three weeks there quite a while ago is there i'm sure there's a lot of experiences a lot of memories but is there one that stands out probably seared in your memory that you would like to care to share with us oh boy wow so many nice memories i don't know maybe maybe those musicians in to the fun that night i heard them and the drummer you know music is very powerful communicator and uh it was it and their culture is so rich was so rich and still and still is and i i think maybe that night of hearing that fantastic music was you know an unforgettable moment i mean i had a lot of unforgettable moments which reminds me in terms of the other woman's question about uh cultural survival i was hunting around in the internet it discovered there is an international network of Uyghur musicians who perform and share and communicate with each other and you know put together concerts before covid anyway and um are you know young young musicians that are working hard to maintain their culture and doing really interesting things with traditional new weaker music but making it you know with a sort of a modern twist so it's really nice to see that happening if you look online you can find this group international group all over the world hello how are you hello my name is el must go check america gilding the alexander system which is i want i want the one thing can i have my uh breath she's asking if you have pictures of uglja that's where she's from the northern part of the district and she's asking about that she said you missed my town she came here i'm sorry i miss you i wish i am happy she's one of the earliest uh weighers hello thank you for showing us these photos they're amazing i'm curious uh at the time you were there there may have been more progress by china on this front in to bet and if you heard anything about that or noticed anything in your travels at that time that gave you some foreshadowing of what was to come you know interesting i went to to bet two years later i just you know i love that part of the world and um actually i had gone all the way across the middle middle east and through you know turkey around afghanistan pakistan and into india before so but um to bet opened up you know as part of this opening up campaign by deng xiao peng to allow tourists i think purely for the tourism money not for any other reason he had opened to bet up to foreigners in like maybe 1985 and i went in 1986 and it was the chinese presence there was more obvious and more oppressive but they really cracked down the year after i was there in 87 i think when it's when you saw pictures of soldiers beating monks in lasa and uh you know the real crackdown happened a year later but it was you know they're suffering the same thing that the tibetans the rigors the hong kong is you know all around the periphery of china and i don't know what that portends but uh anyway that that's about all i know uh we're almost at 6 30 so if there's one last question no we can thank you let's let's give a round of applause thank you so much thank you so much for attending so before we go to the banquet hall maybe custom can explain to us what we'll be enjoying the desserts that are out there if you're familiar with it or uh somebody oh let me let me just hand the mic over to whomever prepared it so she can explain to us what it is okay hi everyone thank you so much for coming for this special event today so uh with the help of you we were community members here we prepared some sweets and savory and uh while we were just packing it and we noticed that a lot of stuff are was gluten and of course we eat a lot of nuts so there are a lot of nuts in there so um like we saw earlier so we do have our friend was there i made some some so you can try it out and then uh some of the other regular desserts so you're more than welcome to grab a box or two on the way out thank you thank you for coming and we'll see you out in the banquet hall