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Anti-racism protesters stage large rally in Berlin

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Tens of thousands of people have protested against racism and discrimination in Berlin, a demonstration that came amid rising concerns about Germany's increasingly confident far right.

A wide range of groups, including pro-refugee, gay rights and Muslim organisations, backed the Indivisible protest on Saturday in the heart of the German capital under the slogan "solidarity instead of exclusion, for an open and free society".

Last year's German election saw the far-right Alternative for Germany party enter the national parliament.

The slogan Indivisible can be read on the sign (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Anti-migrant violence a few weeks ago in the eastern city of Chemnitz has added to concerns.

Organisers said at least 150,000 people turned out on Saturday.

There was no immediate crowd estimate from police.

Among backers was Germany's foreign minister Heiko Maas, who told the Funke newspaper group that he welcomed "a great signal" that "the majority in our country stands for tolerance and openness".

The local branch of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party did not back the protest, with senior official Stefan Evers arguing that its supporters included various "dubious organisations".- Press Association

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Back to Germany World Home Tens of thousands of people have protested against racism and discrimination in Berlin, a demonstration that came amid rising concerns about Germany's increasingly confident far right. A wide range of groups, including pro-refugee, gay rights and Muslim organisations, backed the Indivisible protest on Saturday in the heart of the German capital under the slogan "solidarity instead of exclusion, for an open and free society".

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Boxer Anthony Mundine talks about his experience with racism and how police would pull him over and pull guns out when he was 16
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Boxer Anthony Mundine says police had "guns drawn" on him as a teenager, simply because he was driving "a fancy car".

During a conversation about institutionalised racism with fellow contestants on Channel Ten's I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!, Mundine revealed some harrowing personal experiences.

Mundine recalled "coppers pulling me over if I had a good car if I was with the boys in Redfern or Waterloo. That is Aboriginal neighbourhood."

"We get drawn guns on us when we were 16, 17 just because we are in a group and I had a fancy car," Mundine said.

Anthony Mundine has spoken about racism on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here. Credit:Nigel Wright

Chris Brown joked there might be a "free-to-air fight" in the making, as opposed to boxing matches that are aired on subscription television.

Mundine still remains unaware his sporting rival is about the enter the show, although he told other contestants that he was aware of the industry rumours Green might appear.

Morris and Brown confirmed on Sunday night that Green would enter the jungle set.

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Wales manager Ryan Giggs has expressed his regret over the way he handled being a victim of racism in his formative years.

Giggs, whose father is black, says he was "shocked" at what he faced after going to secondary education.

He admits he was "the kind of person who kept it in, who didn't really speak to people about it".

"If I could go back in time I would talk a lot more to people about it," Giggs told Give Racism the Red Card.

"Whether it be my parents or whether it be teachers at school or my mates.

"So I came through it, but it was probably not the ideal way to come through it, to keep it in and just get through it, really."

Giggs' rugby star father

Giggs was born in Cardiff and moved to the North West as a child when his father Danny Wilson left rugby union for rugby league.

"My dad's black. He was a rugby player, he was quite famous in the area where I grew up so everyone knew who my dad was even though to look at me, you wouldn't think that I was mixed race, people knew that I was because of my dad," said Giggs.

"So I came across it [racism] quite a bit when I was younger, which wasn't nice, obviously.

"It was something that was strange to me when I first went to secondary school.

"It was a shock. I was the kind of person who kept it in, who didn't really speak to people about it and I thought I could handle it that way.

"But obviously that's not the way forward. I did handle it okay, but some people might not be able to."

Giggs' guidance

Giggs would advise anyone who finds themselves the victim of racism to "tell people".

The former Manchester United and Wales star said: "It's something that you should share, because you will feel a lot better afterwards and it would help you come through it a lot quicker.

"It'll be a weight off your shoulders. You won't get the feeling that 'I'm different' or people are looking at you differently or treating you differently.

"You will quickly get the advice or get the feedback that you're not different, you're just like everyone else."

'Heroes' can help fight racism

The 2012 Great Britain football Olympian says players have the public platform to make a difference.

"Footballers can have a positive effect on racism because for the average person or child growing up, they think that we've gone through life and everything's been great and there you are on a football pitch, there you are playing for a Premier League team, playing for Manchester United.

"But actually that's not the case; we encountered the same things that you have.

"So where professional footballers have got that stage, they can help younger people because Premier League players and football players are heroes; the people that young people look up to."

Racism on the wane?

Giggs believes there is less racism than 20 to 30 years ago, but "it's still something that needs to be addressed constantly".

He added: "If one of my players encountered it, you have to go through the proper channels in addressing it, making sure that the person who did it is punished, but also helping the player who has suffered from racism, help him through it.

"And whether that be an everyday person walking on the street or a professional footballer, racism has no place in everyday life."

Giggs' interview with Show Racism the Red Card (external site)

Giggs says the anti-racism educational charity Show Racism the Red Card has helped make things "so much better than they were 20, 25, 30 years ago".

"But it's a case of not standing still. It's a case of continuing that work because it is still there," he said.

"It's not as big as it used to be, but it is still there and we need to work to make sure there is no racism at all.

"And to do that you just need to constantly work on it and educate people and not stand still and not think we've achieved our goal."

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Wales manager Ryan Giggs has expressed his regret over the way he handled being a victim of racism in his formative years. Giggs, whose father is black, says he was "shocked" at what he faced after going to secondary education. He admits he was "the kind of person who kept it in, who didn't really speak to people about it".

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Racism among teachers towards Traveller children must be addressed as part of any move to teach Traveller culture in schools, a leading expert on diversity education has warned.

Karl Kitching, lecturer in the School of Education at University College Cork, was speaking at an event in Leinster House on Wednesday on proposed legislation to mandate the teaching of Traveller culture and history in schools.

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Racism among teachers towards Traveller children must be addressed as part of any move to teach Traveller culture in schools, a leading expert on diversity education has warned.

Karl Kitching, lecturer in the School of Education at University College Cork, was speaking at an event in Leinster House on Wednesday on proposed legislation to mandate the teaching of Traveller culture and history in schools.

"The current understanding of racism in schools is that it's something that happens between children," said Mr Kitching.

While there were "very good anti-bullying procedures" in schools, they often "make it look like children are the only ones responsible for racism. Of course teachers . . . can do damage, not necessarily intentionally."

Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, speaking from the audience, said research conducted in an Irish teacher training college recently on trainee teachers' attitudes to diversity had "depressing findings".

"These are young teachers who are reflective of the entirety of Irish society . . . There's a lot of work to be done in the entirety of the school community, not just the children, because the teachers themselves come from a place in a country with a lot of prejudice," he said.

The Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill has been brought forward by Independent Senator Colette Kelleher.

She said it would improve educational outcomes for Traveller children and therefore benefit the economy. She said all children would benefit from learning about their Traveller peers' identity, and the Bill would also ensure the State met international human rights obligations.

Last month, Minister for Education Richard Bruton said he had asked the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to review the position of Traveller culture in the school curriculum.

'Well overdue'

Speaking on Wednesday, Hannah McGinley, a Traveller mother, teacher and PhD candidate at NUI Galway, said Traveller children learned young "that certain identities are bad, something to be ashamed of and to hide - that is shocking".

Legislation like Ms Kelleher's Bill was "well overdue", she said. It was well known, she added, that children could not thrive or engage in education if they did not feel confidence in themselves.

Traveller children's literacy and numeracy are behind those of their settled peers.

"We can't improve their maths and literacy if we don't improve their overall well-being and sense of self," Ms McGinley said. "If we don't instil a sense of pride in them then everything else is a waste of time."

Dr David Edwards, of the Department of History at UCC, said that if we aspire to be an inclusive society we must make children sensitive to the fact "there are many different groups in a diverse, multiethnic State".

Travellers were "among the oldest of the Irish" and "the last vestiges of an old, Gaelic, tribal society", he said, adding that during the Middle Ages, the Irish were a semi-nomadic, pastoral people. This way of life was "knocked sideways by the imposition of direct English rule", with its insistence on a sedentary life, in the 16th- and 17th-centuries.

"The vast majority of the Irish population today are an acknowledgement of the success of the English plantation project . . . The Travellers resisted, stayed in the margins and managed to retain a semblance of the old way of life. So I think it would be quite easy to incorporate the story of Travellers into the history of Ireland, because they are in many ways the story of Ireland."

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Racism among teachers towards Traveller children must be addressed as part of any move to teach Traveller culture in schools, a leading expert on diversity education has warned. Karl Kitching, lecturer in the School of Education at University College Cork, was speaking at an event in Leinster House on Wednesday on proposed legislation to mandate the teaching of Traveller culture and history in schools.

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"It's the thing that makes me want to prove people wrong," says the singer.

Rihanna has spoken out against racism in the music industry, revealing that despite her huge success, her race is frequently highlighted in her business dealings.

Speaking to The New York Times, the singer also spoke about racial profiling and assumptions people make based on the colour of her skin.

"I have to bear in mind that people are judging you because you're packaged a certain way - they've been programmed to think a black man in a hoodie means grab your purse a little tighter," said Rihanna. "For me, it comes down to smaller issues, scenarios in which people can assume something of me without knowing me, just by my packaging."

With regards to the music industry, the 'Umbrella' performer claimed the racism "never ends".

"When I started to experience the difference - or even have my race be highlighted - it was mostly when I would do business deals... That never ends, by the way. It's still a thing. And it's the thing that makes me want to prove people wrong. It almost excites me; I know what they're expecting and I can't wait to show them that I'm here to exceed those expectations."

Rihanna last week announced her forthcoming album 'Anti' at an exclusive gallery party in LA. Hosting the event at Mama Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles' Arts District, she revealed the LP's title with a written explanation on the entryway wall, defining the word as "a person opposed to a particular policy, activity or idea".

"In her collaboration with Roy Nachum, Rihanna has changed the history of album art. By continuing to follow her own instincts, her work strives to make an impact by doing the very antithesis of what the public expects," it read.

Inside the event, various braille art pieces graced the walls. Upon entry, the fans were given red sashes and then later used them as blindfolds, adding their own fingerprints to the Israeli artist's pieces.

A release date for 'Anti' has yet to be announced.

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"Matangi/Maya/M.I.A." won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival last January. Next week, it will come to the Belcourt as part of the theater's annual Doctober series.

The documentary tells the story of Matangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, known to the world as rapper M.I.A., the woman behind hits like "Paper Planes" and " Bad Girls."

The film, directed by her former classmate, Steve Loveridge, uses her own footage shot over 22 years in Sri Lanka - where her father was a leader in the Tamil resistance movement - and London.

"It's definitely not a traditional music (documentary)," Loveridge told IndieWire during Sundance. "It doesn't sort of unpack Maya's albums and explain the songs or anything like that. When we met, Maya was an aspiring documentary maker herself, so I got handed these unfinished documentaries...One's a sort of rock tour doc when she was doing that and the other one's like a family story in Sri Lanka. There's just all this disparate footage, but when you put it together, it does make sense."

Showings are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Monday, 9:05 p.m. Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, and at 4:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are on sale now via belcourt.org.

Another music documentary, "Gurrumul," will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 as part of Doctober and the Belcourt's Music City Mondays series.

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"Matangi/Maya/M.I.A." won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival last January. Next week, it will come to the Belcourt as part of the theater's annual Doctober series. The documentary tells the story of Matangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, known to the world as rapper M.I.A., the woman behind hits like "Paper Planes" and " Bad Girls."

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Federico Di Francesco 'deeply troubled' by claims he racially abused Juventus' Douglas Costa

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Sassuolo winger Federico Di Francesco has rubbished claims he provoked Juventus forward Douglas Costa with racist insults, which resulted in the Brazilian spitting in his face.

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October 16th 2018 - Racism in the media 

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For this class, I want you to act as the researcher. You need to research using the Internet how racism can be played out in the mass media such as

Television

Film

News

Books

Pick out one article from each of the headings and post them to Padlet.

What I am Lookong For

1. Story - what is going on?

2. Audience - who is this meant for?

3. Message - what’s the main message being put forward

4. Anything else you find interesting at all