La police française mise en cause dans une augmentation récente des morts de réfugié·e·s tentant de traverser la Manche. Les pratiques très violentes de la police ainsi que leur politique exclusivement répressive met clairement davantage en danger de mort celleux qui tentent de traverser.
Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh on Saturday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week. More than 70 Rohingya were "presumed dead or missing", which if confirmed would be the...
"Aktivisten haben am Samstag ein Gerüst am Kölner Dom besetzt. Deutlich sichtbar befestigten sie ein großes Banner an der Kathedrale. Sie warfen Flugblätter herab und zündeten Pyrotechnik.
Die Polizei ging gegen die Aktivisten auf dem Baugerüst am Kölner Dom vor. Die Aktion wurde aufgelöst. Weitere Protestierende stimmten vor der Kathedrale in Sprechchöre ein. Die Polizei sperrte einen Teil der Domplatte ab."
Fascinating and harrowing account of the Iraqi Kurdish mafia that controls the people smuggling from Northern France, the police brutality and the sheer resilience of the refugees.
"This network of people trafficking can only exist and be extremely lucrative because the French and the British governments have not agreed to establish safe passages between France and the UK and are determined to invest in “securing” the border instead"
„Ein Security-Mitarbeiter einer Nürnberger Geflüchtetenunterkunft wurde in 67 Fällen der Vergewaltigung und Belästigung gegenüber Bewohnerinnen schuldig gesprochen. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass Frauen, denen in staatlichen Einrichtungen Schutz geboten werden soll, sexualisierte Gewalt erfahren. Weder in Geflüchtetenunterkünften, noch in Obdachlosenheimen, Behindertenwerkstätten, Senior:innenheimen oder psychiatrischen Kliniken sind Frauen vor patriarchaler Gewalt sicher….“
#VietnameseSkyraiders rent the air with ferocious whines as they dive-bombed sections of the city, notably the #Chinese quarter of #Cholon, which was honeycombed with #VietCong. The planes sent #refugees scattering in all directions and plumes of smoke shooting into sunny skies that mocked the city's agony. In six of #Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of #guerrillas still operating as units.
My #Dad, aged 27, at #RefugeeCamp in #Indonesia - 1979. Photo was taken by humanitarian aid workers to help #VietnamWar#refugees get sponsored to go to Europe, Canada, USA & Australia, under asylum.
My Dad passed away June 9, 2023.
He went through hell & back, several times. He beat almost all odds. Until #covid infection in hospital in 2022. #LongCovid killed him last year.
Which is in fact because I have just finished #AliSmith's 'Spring'. It is a beautiful novel. Part 1 is particularly brilliant. I'm not sure about its flirtation with magical realism in part 2. We need a writer who can find hope without recourse to magic.
On the other hand, it is more mythological realism than magical. We can believe in myth making and story telling. What is real is not the mundane, but the eternal or, better, the eternal in the mundane. Smith is on the side of the angels because she believes in art, in myth in story telling. Spring, with its promise of life, is contrasted with winter which is dark and unenchanted. It is also art and the mundane. Smith is with Chaucer not Elliott. So am I.
What I particularly like is the motif that none of this is about you. It serves to cut the privileged down to size, but the moral extends. The story isn't Florence's or the Machines. It is a shared world and 'world' here is truely all that is, was, will be or even could have been the case.
Hearts of humanity. Hands of humanity. Working to make & give bread to starving, displaced #Palestinians. #Refugees, helping fellow refugees.
This is true loving #humanity & I want people to remember beautiful caring moments like this are happening daily, all around #Gaza but not every one of those meaningful moments are videoed.
Großbritannien versieht Tausende von Migranten mit GPS-Etiketten
"Knöchelanhänger, die ständig die Koordinaten einer Person aufzeichnen, sind Teil einer wachsenden Zahl von experimentellen Überwachungsinstrumenten, die Länder auf der ganzen Welt an Neuankömmlingen ausprobieren."
Indonesia recovers two bodies after Rohingya boat capsizes off Aceh (www.reuters.com)
Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh on Saturday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week. More than 70 Rohingya were "presumed dead or missing", which if confirmed would be the...
Ireland’s designation of UK as ‘safe third country’ is unlawful, rules High Court (www.irishtimes.com)
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee made the designation in response to the UK’s exit from EU