Live Adventurously: the noble Crow has been observing our behaviour for millenia. It is the conscience of humanity
Walk with Amal: One little girl. One BIG hope.
Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than ever?
Continue reading “The Walk: Hope. Too BIG to ignore.”If someone starts asking do all the refugees come to UK, you can show them this video
and suggest they look at information here: https://care4calais.org/the-refugee-crisis/
15 June 2020: So Pete Titchener and I played as Residents in the same folk club at the Black Horse, Telham 45+ years ago. He’s in Australia and I’m in UK but due to the wonders of modern technology look what we have – some Covid-19 lockdown and socially-distanced wizardry (musicians in Australia and I’m in UK). It was great fun to do, and Pete’s done a fantastic job. I’m really pleased I responded to his challenge
⚘⚘⚘ Big thank you to the wonderful band – Micheal O’Callaghan on guitar, and Pete Titchener on rhythm and lead acoustic guitar, and also electric bass.
“When You Say Nothing at All” was written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz
Morning Star: I can’t breathe – Protesters clash with police after death of George Floyd
PROTESTERS clashed with police in the US city of Minneapolis today, responding to Monday’s killing of a black man in police custody.
Footage of a white police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, ignoring his pleas for help, was captured on video.
Hundreds took to the streets where the 46-year-old was killed displaying banners reading “I can’t breathe,” the words he was repeatedly heard saying.
Demonstrators were met with a wall of riot police who fired tear gas and projectiles at the crowd.
Continue reading “Black Lives Matter”
We hear with sadness that one of the founder members of People’s Arts Collective – PAC, Sonja Grossner died last night, 12 April 2020. She had been unwell for some time. Our thoughts are with her daughter Lorna Grossner, who is also an active PAC member.
Continue reading “Sonja Grossner 1942-2020”QUICK FACTS
1. Nine years of war, systematic targeting of health and water infrastructure by occupying Turkish forces, lack of international recognition, and the January 2020 closure of the only UN aid crossing into North and East Syria (NES) have left the autonomous region at extreme risk from coronavirus.
With the World Health Organization (WHO) refusing to support it directly, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is reliant on its own meagre resources and aid routed via the Assad government, little of which ever arrives to the north-east.
At the time of writing (5 April), only 7 potential cases of coronavirus have been identified, though the lack of testing facilities outlined below means the real prevalence is far higher.
Continue reading “The Coronavirus Crisis in North and East Syria: from Rojava Information Centre:”Guardian: Victoria Falls dries to a trickle after worst drought in a century
One of southern Africa’s biggest tourist attractions has seen an unprecedented decline this dry season, fuelling climate change fears
This is a personal tragedy – I was born nearby. Climate change has long fingers
Salih Muslim asks us put more pressure on our Governments for sanctions on Turkey, and to pressure for resolutions from international organisations like UN and EU and Nato etc…
Also: Salih Muslim talks about the agreement with the Syrian state