Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s Cameron’s Britain!) The Cameron government has not been clamping down on benefit fraud. He and his ministers have been attacking genuinely sick and disabled people instead. There are now numerous cases of terminally sick cancer patients being told by the DWP they are unable to receive…
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that if his party wins May’s General Election, he will revive a Bill that keeps track of your online activity and phone calls. The Communications Data Bill – nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter. If passed in its present form, it will force internet providers, social networks, and telecommunication …
Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has renewed Swedish calls for a global ban on nuclear weapons as the United Nations begins a major review of the industry. Wallström said it was “more urgent than ever” that the world rid itself of all nuclear weapons, as the UN 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation …
Credit: Renee Clement Author: ActionAid UK Target: UK Foreign Secretary Women’s rights lawyer Azza Soliman faces five years in jail after witnessing the killing of an activist by Egyptian police. We have just days left to get the case dropped and stop this injustice. Azza is due in court on 9 May and says that …
A veteran Labour peer will not stand trial for historic sex abuse allegations because of the “severity” of his dementia. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the allegations against Lord Greville Janner QC, 86, are “extremely serious” and the evidence against him would have warranted a criminal trial. But his poor health means they have …
Illegal immigration is not a new problem. Native Americans used to call it white people.
Authors: Emily L and Julie M Purvi Patel is a 33-year-old woman who, despite insisting she had a miscarriage, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for neglect of a dependent and feticide. Text messages were found that insinuated she intended to take abortion-inducing drugs, but no drugs of this sort were found in her …
When all the trees are cut down When all the animals are dead When all the waters are poisoned When all the air is unsafe to breathe Only then will you discover… YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY
Lawsuit seeks to represent anyone who purchased tickets, memberships or SeaWorld orca experiences. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a consumer-rights class-action law firm with offices in nine cities. The firm has been named to the National Law Journals Plaintiffs Hot List eight times. SeaWorld customers, represented by attorneys at Hagens Berman, today filed a ground-breaking class-action …
Arrest Katie Hopkins For Racist Twitter Remarks: RE Scotland and Ebola Written by: James Gilchrist Glasgow, United Kingdom For years, Katie Hopkins has seemingly gotten away with a string of controversial statements, either via main stream media or social media, without punishment. Many of these statements are racist or abusive, and are tantamount to bullying. …
Originally posted on Ronnie's Blog:
? It is Christmas Day in the workhouse, And the cold, bare walls are bright With garlands of green and holly, And the place is a pleasant sight; For with clean-washed hands and faces, In a long and hungry line The paupers sit at the table, For this is the…
Please sign and share this urgent petition to ask that Razieh Ebrahimi receive a pardon so she will not be hanged to death. Razieh Ebrahimi was forced to become a child bride at 14 years of age, become a mother when she was only 15, and endure years of verbal and physical abuse from …
In a letter published on the morning of the G4S shareholders meeting, renowned artists, academics and writers have called on G4S to end all support for Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestine. Join Archbishop Desmond Tutu, artists, writers and activists Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Roger Waters, filmmakers Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, …
War on Want Fighting Global Poverty Thursday 5 June at Western Terrace, Excel Centre, 1pm (Google Map) Closest public transport: Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL Join us for a protest at the G4S shareholders meeting. While it continues to make billions from human rights abuses and privatisation, it’s not all …
Children under nine years old could be legally married and wives forced to comply with sexual demands under newly tabled legislation described by critics as a setback for women’s rights. Children in Iraq could be legally married before the age of nine under sweeping legislation tabled on Tuesday that introduces new religious restrictions on women’s …
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have …
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