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We need a Mayor who will stand up for Tower HamletsWednesday 25th August 2010Abjol Miah In the next few weeks, all the major parties of Tower Hamlets will select and announce their candidate for the Borough's first directly elected mayor. This is not deportation. It is murderMonday 23rd August 2010Mohammed Amin Khawaja is about to be forcibly deported on 24 August from the detention centre in Dungavel, Lanarkshire through Edinburgh Airport. Why should we care? Mohammed Amin Khawaja is 18 years old and was seized by UK Border Agency officials immediately after his birthday. He spent over a year trying to reach Britain from his home in Ishkamish in the Takhar province in North Eastern Afghanistan. He was trained from the age of 11 by the Taliban for whom his father and uncle were commanders. His father and sister were killed by NATO forces and he was betrayed by his uncle, who seeks his inheritance. At 15, Khawaja was arrested by Afghan police and NATO forces and tortured, suffering loss of vision, hearing, seizures, psychiatric distress and loss of mobility. He was to be sent to Bagram air base, the notorious prison complex near Kabul. Khawaja escaped and discovered that the Taliban had placed a price on his head while in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Can we do it? Yes we canWednesday 18th August 2010Could an ordinary member win the election for General Secretary of the Country's biggest union? Unite, Britain's largest and most influential Trade Union, gears up for the election of its General Secretary. This election comes at a time when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition is about to announce its plans for massive cuts to be set out in their Autumn Budget in October. All eyes will be on where any possible fightback may emanate. Given the size and make up of Unite, which represents over 1.5 million members in all sectors of the economy, this makes the election for the union's General Secretary the most significant union election for decades. Complain to the BBC - Death in the MedTuesday 17th August 2010Last night (16 August) the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled 'Death on the Med'. It claimed to reveal 'what really happened' when Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers. Please write to the BBC asking the following questions: Viva Palestina - Global Lifeline to GazaThursday 12th August 2010Across the world, several teams are preparing to set off on a 4,000km drive to the besieged region of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. From New Zealand to Canada, and from Ireland to South Africa, volunteers are collecting medical aid and fundraising for vehicles. They will set off from their respective homelands in mid September and travel to London. There, they will meet up with the "Viva Palestina, Global Lifeline For Gaza Convoy". Over 250 people in 100 vehicles will set off and undertake a journey that will see them drive through France and Italy. Teams from across Europe will join en route, swelling the numbers of vehicles and volunteers. By ferry they will cross to Greece and then overland to Turkey. Fifth Gaza Aid Convoy to Leave London 18th SeptemberSaturday 24th July 2010The Viva Palestina Lifeline 5 aid convoy to Gaza will leave London on Saturday 18th September. This is the fifth aid convoy involving Viva Palestina. This one will have three separate convoys leaving from London, Casablanca and Doha and all of them joining together in El Arich in Egypt. The London convoy will travel across Europe, down through Turkey and Syria where they will then be joined by the convoy from Doha and be shipped from Latakia to El Arish. At El Arish they will be joined by the convoy from Casablanca. They will then enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, Recent news |
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News digestRespect is not responsible for the content of external websitesGPs can't do this - and shouldn't do this - and we should not tolerate it - Richard Murphy These cuts are almost bound to mean more than 20,000 job losses. But on this occasion that's not the biggest deal (amazingly). The big deal is the assault this represents on the NHS - for it is nothing else. My once-in-a-generation cut? The armed forces. All of them - Simon Jenkins, The Guardian What do we really get from the army, the navy and the air force beyond soldiers dying in distant wars and a tingle when the band marches by? Is the tingle worth £45bn, more than the total spent on schools? Why does Osborne "ringfence" defence when everyone knows its budget is a bankruptcy waiting to happen, when Labour ministers bought the wrong kit for wars that they insisted it fight? If Gaza's relief is a step closer they won't have died in vain - Seumas Milne, The Guardian It takes some nerve, and a special kind of detachment from reality, to claim that your soldiers were "lynched" by "terrorists" when they have just shot dead at least nine unarmed human rights activists and wounded dozens of others while suffering no fatal injuries themselves. But that is the line Israel's propaganda machine spun while it held nearly 700 international pro-Palestinian campaigners incommunicado in the wake of Monday's assault on six boats bringing humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza. The idolatry of "the markets" - Mike Marqusee, The Hindu The economic “law” that we are told we break at our peril is in fact an arbitrary imposition. The elevation of the “markets” – constructed and manipulated by a particular class with a particular interest – is a form of idolatry: worshipping a human artefact as a god. BA strike - a complete load of ballots - Mark Steel, The Independent At last, someone's come up with a clean, decisive system for holding elections. The way it works is everyone has a vote, and then the management of British Airways and a judge decide the result. |
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