Some good news in the last days of the Obama administration, President Obama has commuted the vast bulk of Chelsea Manning’s 35 year sentence and she will be released next May 17th.
mostlysignssomeportents: Across the rich world, this decade has seen the rise of increasingly fierce anti-immigrant sentiment, much of it from self-identified Christians – as you recount the Christmas story this year, remember that Mary and Joseph fled religious persecution and sought asylum in a rich country, which took them in. As Woody Guthrie sang: “If […]
Martina Devlin makes a strong call to vote only for parties that will repeal the 8th. If you want it gone, let your local prospective TD’s know what it’ll take to get your vote: Not in the interests of pregnant women, nor for women in general, but for everyone’s sake – men and women. Ireland […]
When photographer John Stanmeyer first saw the viral picture of the drowned Syrian toddler who washed up on a Turkish shore, his reaction was probably just like yours. “I happen to be a photographer multiple levels after just being a human,” says Stanmeyer, a National Geographic contributor who has been covering the Syrian refugee crisis […]
Interesting to see the editorial handbrake turns executed by several newspapers in light of the death of two young boys attempting to migrate to Europe with their parents. The Sun and the Daily Mail good examples, and while they both have a certain ideological line to peddle, it’s also interesting to see them respond so […]
Via: War Child subverts Call of Duty games with video portraying the nightmare of being a warzone kid | The Drum
This makes for horrifying reading: New research reveals that Britain and the US knew six weeks before massacre that enclave would fall – but they decided to sacrifice it in their efforts for peace “On 2 June, Mladic ordered a “destruction of the Muslim forces in these enclaves”. Voorhoeve insists that western leaders knew of […]
There’s nothing that can be done without a report drawn up first, and of course, there’s nothing done once it’s written either, it’ll be ‘under consideration’, ‘in committee’, ‘awaiting review’, ‘we don’t have the budget’.. take your pick. Let’s see what happens when this one lands. (I always live in hope that I’m wrong) Weekly […]
Fascinating read in The Atlantic. Patagonia as a company has tried hard to remove exploitation from it’s supplier chain, but in 2011 they decided to investigate deeper, beyond the usual first-tier direct suppliers, into their second level, and they found abuses of labour laws and unethical practices in their sub-suppliers that they are now aiming to […]
