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Posted by Stop Funding Hate on Sunday, 12 March 2017

We've just released a new video highlighting how it can feel to be on the receiving end of news stories that demonise minority groups.

In 2016 the Daily Mail and Daily Express published over 1,768 pages of stories about migrants - almost all of them negative.

Experts have warned that the hate in our media is fuelling hate crime on our streets - yet companies like the Co-op, British Gas and BT continue to fund divisive news stories through their advertising.

We're stepping up our efforts to persuade the Co-op and other household names to take responsibility for the social impact of their advertising.

Please share our latest video to help build support and spread the word.

Many thanks,

Richard, Rosey and the Stop Funding Hate team

LibDems: please take 5 minutes to write to your MP on Article 50

BRITS IN THE EU:  PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES TO WRITE TO YOUR MP ABOUT ARTICLE 50 Dear fellow Lib Dem in Europe, Tomorrow, 13th March, is Article 50 crunch time. The Bill returns to the House of Commons where the Government is urging MPs to overturn the Lords’ amendments that would unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU nationals in the UK and give Parliament a meaningful vote on the final terms of the EU exit deal. Given that the exit talks are expected to be very difficult it is absolutely essential that the rights of EU nationals are protected and that Parliament gets a proper say on what the Government negotiates on our behalf. What can I do?

The most important paper I ever published | Edzard Ernst

WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

My first ever scientific paper, a spin-off from my MD thesis, was published exactly 40 years ago. Since then, I have written many more articles. Readers of this blog might think that they are all on alternative medicine, but that is not the case. My most cited paper is (I think) one which combined my research in haemorheology with that in epidemiology. Yet, I would not consider it to be my most important article.

So, what is my most important publication?

It is one that relates to the history of medicine.

How come?

In 1990, I was appointed as chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Vienna. On the occasion of the official opening of the new 2000-bed university hospital in Vienna, I was asked to say a few words and thought that a review of the history of my department might be a fitting subject. But I was wrong. What I discovered while researching it turned out to be totally unfitting for the event; in fact, it contributed to my decision to leave Vienna in 1993. I did, however, summarize my findings in an article – and it is this paper that I consider my most important publication. Here is its abstract:

Misguided by the notion that the decline of the German race would be prevented by purifying “Aryan blood”...

Read on: The most important paper I ever published

Refugees, by @judeinlondon

As someone who works primarily with unaccompanied minors let me just smash this continued women & children first myth re: refugees.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

1) women are always at risk in conflict. We tend to pay the highest price. There was an entire summit on this in 2014 by Angelina Jolie & UN

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

2) so many refugees & minors happen to be male is largely because they're fleeing conscription into fighting. This isn't rocket science.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

3) there is a long and rich history of young boys & teenagers being roped into fighting wars they neither understand nor want part of.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

Families will send their at risk children away from war to give them a chance of survival. This is the first deployment of women & children.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

So if you live in a constantly under siege town where 14yr old boys are being rounded up to go& fight, you're gonna try to get then out.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

This isn't really groundbreaking information. The use of child soldiers is as old as time. So these young boys & men become the refugees we

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

see. And they're just as vulnerable as women & young girls fleeing sexual violence in conflict. But because we have been conditioned to...

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

ACLU: "Trump discriminated. We sued."

This morning the ACLU and several other legal organizations filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Iraqi men who were en route to the United States when President Trump issued an executive order banning many Muslims from entering the country.

The lead plaintiffs were detained by the U.S. government and threatened with deportation – even though they have valid visas to enter the United States.

One plaintiff, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, worked for the U.S. military. His life was in danger in his home country due to that relationship. A former Obama administration official and platoon commander during the invasion of Iraq said on Twitter yesterday that Mr. Darweesh "spent years keeping U.S. soldiers alive in combat in Iraq."

The family of the other plaintiff, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, was also threatened because of perceived ties to the United States. His wife and 7-year-old son are lawful permanent residents living in Houston, Texas and were eagerly awaiting his arrival. Mr. Alshawi’s son has not seen his father for three years.

Tellingly, Trump’s executive order authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security to admit refugees on a "case-by-case" basis, for people of a minority religion in their home countries. In effect, Trump has barred Muslims from entering the United States, while favoring the entry of Christians.

 Mr. Darweesh was just released from detention at John F. Kennedy International Airport this afternoon, but Mr. Alshawi and others remain in detention. The ACLU and its supporters will not stand for the Trump administration’s unconstitutional discrimination. Today, and every day, we will fight back.

For more information on our lawsuit, please see https://www.aclu.org/cases/darweesh-v-trump.

Govt response to petition “United Kingdom to not leave the EU”

Deluged by petitions not to be so arse-clenchingly stupid as to leave the EU, you just know that the current Government is going to respond in various shades of “Fuck off”. And so it is with the latest petition: United Kingdom to not leave the EU. Here is the response from the cringefully-named Department for Exiting the European Union. They picked a really bad time to send this. Of course, they’re headed by David Davis, who is renowned for his intelligence, charm, wit, political savvy and sheer humanity. He doesn’t have any. To be fair, nor do any of the appalling May’s shiftless and nasty Cabinet.

Whatever. Let’s go:

On 23rd June 2016 the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum provided for by an Act of Parliament. We are committed to implementing the democratic outcome of the referendum.

Committed? You should be. First of all, the United Kingdom … Continue reading →

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