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केंद्र ने देश में कोरोना की स्थिति पर जाहिर की चिंता, सभी राज्यों को पत्र लिख कही ये बात
केंद्र ने देश में कोरोना की स्थिति पर जाहिर की चिंता, सभी राज्यों को पत्र लिख कही ये बात
Covid-19 Case Increasing: भारत में फिर से कोविड-19 (Covid-19) के मामलों में बढ़ोतरी देखी जा रही है. देश में गुरुवार को सामने आए कोरोना के मामलों में महाराष्ट्र, केरल, दिल्ली और कर्नाटक से 81 प्रतिशत से अधिक मामले आए हैं. अब केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय (Union Health Ministry) ने देश में कोरोना की स्थिति पर चिंता जाहिर की है. केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय ने गुरुवार को राज्यों को पत्र लिखकर निगरानी…
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Activists are “shoplifting” from supermarket shelves and dumping the proceeds straight into the stores’ food bank bins in a “redistributive action” to protest the cost of living and the climate crisis.
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“The reason we’re doing this is that supermarkets in this country have been raising their prices ahead of the rate of inflation, essentially stealing from ordinary people in order to line their packets with profits.
“We’re acting against this in order to deliver food and necessities to the people of the community that need it the most in the middle of the cost of living crisis.”
The activist is seen ripping the security tag off a tub of baby formula. He says: “This is a basic need for every family with babies and it’s £18 in Asda, which is an immense price tag. […] Supermarkets are prioritising their profits over the safety and health of families in the community.”
Xander Cloudsley, 29, a community food co-ordinator and member of This Is Rigged, the campaign group behind the actions, said: “In my job, I’ve seen the lived reality of the cost of living crisis […] while corporate giants like Tesco are boasting astonishing profits year in and year out. I’m taking action because this disparity is sickening and profoundly unfair.”
The protest comes as food bank usage – already prevalent following austerity – has surged alongside spiralling inflation.
Many supermarkets now have collection bins for food banks. In 2018, Sainsbury’s trialled dedicated shelf-edge labels alerting customers to items that food banks need. In 2022, Tesco gained positive media attention for launching a “reverse food bank” where shoppers could buy and donate goods.
Meanwhile, supermarkets have also been accused of driving inflation. Analysis from trade union Unite shows the top three supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda – have taken advantage of increased food costs and doubled their profits to £3.32bn in 2021, up 97% on 2019. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham has called this “greedflation” – something supermarket bosses deny.
Ironically, supermarket workers, often poorly paid themselves, are amongst those forced to turn to food banks. One supermarket worker accused Tesco of “forcing us to use food banks, while using food banks to look good.”
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Covid Cases In India Increased Rapidly In 9 States Union Health Secretary Called A Review Meeting Ann
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Corona Cases In India: The cases of corona (Covid-19) are increasing in India, so today Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has informed about Kovid in 9 states of Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. A high level meeting was held today to review the situation of -19. New cases are increasing in these states and in…
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UPS TEAMSTERS-UNION WON !!!!!!!!!!!
From the article:
[(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.
“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits. Teamster labor moves America. The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. ... This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.”
“UPS came dangerously close to putting itself on strike, but we kept firm on our demands. In my more than 40 years in Louisville representing members at Worldport — the largest UPS hub in the country — I have never seen a national contract that levels the playing field for workers so dramatically as this one....” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “We stayed focused on our members and fought like hell to get everything that full-time and part-time UPS Teamsters deserve.”
“Rank-and-file members served on the committee for the first time, ... “Our hard work has paid off — from those members and leaders negotiating for more at the table to my sisters and brothers building a credible strike threat around the country. Our union was organized and we were relentless. We’ve hit every goal that UPS Teamster members wanted and asked for with this agreement. It’s a ‘yes’ vote for the most historic contract we’ve ever had.”
Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:
Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
On July 31, representatives ... will meet to review and recommend the tentative agreement. All UPS rank-and-file members will receive a list of improvements in the contract. ... Member voting begins August 3 and concludes August 22.
The UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement is the single largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America.]
Check the article for the full list; but ho ho holy shit.
This is huge. It shows the collective bargaining WORKS. The Teamsters sent a message to UPS and this win will send a message to Corporate America that unions can WIN for rank-and-file workers!!!
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The tide is turning for the TQ+. And they have no one to blame but themselves
Wes Streeting last night admitted he had been wrong to say that “trans women are women” amid a major Labour row over the Cass review into NHS gender care.
The shadow health secretary said the controversial LGBT rights group Stonewall – where he used to work – had got it wrong with its slogan.
In a major about-turn for the party, he told The Sun that he now admitted “there are lots of complexities” on the trans issue but that he was prepared to take criticism “on the chin”.
It came as Labour became embroiled in another trans row after Mr Streeting welcomed the review and pledged to implement it in full.
The shadow health secretary said the report raised “some serious concerns that are pretty scandalous”.
But Rosie Duffield, a Labour MP placed under investigation by the party last year for campaigning against gender ideology, pointed out that women who had exposed the scandal had been “blanked, sidelined and dismissed” by male leaders simply for speaking up.
Last night Mr Streeting was asked on The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots programme whether he stood by Stonewall’s claim that “trans women are women, get over it”, he admitted: “No.”
He added: “To the extent that – and I say this with some self-criticism and reflection – if you’d asked me a few years ago, on this topic, I would have said trans men are men, trans women are women. Some people are trans, get over it. Let’s move on. This is all blown out of proportion.
“And now I sort of sit and reflect and think actually, there are lots of complexities.”
He went on: “I take the criticism on the chin. And at the same time, I also think that there’s been some absolutely ugly rhetoric directed towards trans people who are at the wrong end of all of statistics on hate crime, on self harm, suicide, mental health.”
Labour has long been divided on trans issues and has been accused of flip-flopping on its stance in recent years.
The party no longer has plans to bring in self-ID for trans people, and Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has rowed back from saying “trans women are women”, and now states that a woman is an “adult female” and that 99.9 per cent of them do not have a penis.
Mr Streeting’s comments angered the Labour Left. The Corbynite group Momentum tweeted: “The Cass review ignored dozens of scientific studies, coming to a harmful conclusion of limiting access to gender-affirming care for trans youth.
“Anti-trans campaigners have celebrated it. So it’s highly disappointing that Labour’s leadership is welcoming it unreservedly.”
Yesterday, feminist Julie Bindel demanded an apology from Mr Streeting for failing to support her gender-critical views when he was president of the National Union of Students.
Earlier this year, the party dropped a year-long investigation into a complaint that Ms Duffield had been transphobic for liking a tweet by Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, who is now a gender-critical campaigner.
However, despite the changes, critics of the Labour leadership say gender-critical women in the party continue to be sidelined or not selected.
Wes Streeting says the Cass report raised 'some serious concerns that are pretty scandalous' CREDIT: Jay Williams
The Cass review, published on Wednesday, said much of the evidence for gender medicine was flimsy and that drugs such as puberty blockers should be used with extreme caution as children who think they are trans may have mental health problems.
Dr Hilary Cass, the paediatrician behind the report, said some NHS gender clinics refused to comment on requests for information.
On Never Mind the Ballots, Mr Streeting said: “I think we’ve got to ask ourselves why is it that we’ve seen medical interventions that have been given on the basis of very weak evidence?
“How is it that clinicians have been silenced or afraid to come forward? Why is it that a group of young people who are extremely vulnerable are waiting years to access treatment?
“I think there’s plenty of blame to go around. I’m pretty angry actually that despite this review having been commissioned there are some NHS trusts that refused to co-operate.
“And I want to send a clear message to them that under a Labour government there’ll be accountability for that, you’re not going to get away with it. And I want to work constructively with the Government to try to get this right.”
Earlier, he had tweeted: “Children’s healthcare should always be led by evidence and children’s welfare, free from culture wars…
“The Government must now immediately act, but if they do not, the next Labour government will work to implement the expert recommendations of the Cass review, to ensure that young people are receiving appropriate and high-quality care.”
This prompted Ms Duffield to retweet the statement, with the message: “To the many women blanked, sidelined, dismissed by male leaders when speaking up and exposing this for years.”
And Ms Bindel, a former Labour Party member, wrote: “Glad to see you are now openly critical of the gender ideology that led to the atrocities against children outlined in the Cass report.
“I am open to accepting an apology from you. In 2008, when you were NUS president, I was no-platformed alongside five fascist groups for ‘transphobia’.
“I contacted you and asked for your help. You gave none. I asked you to condemn those that had orchestrated the no-platforming, and you refused.
“Have you any idea of the reputational damage this caused me? How it gave others permission to no-platform, denounce and defame me?
“How it meant that I could be slandered by other organisations, and so many, many universities around the UK and elsewhere? If this sounds bitter then good, because I am.”
To this message, Ms Duffield said: “Thank you for leading us all here Julie. Without you, most of us wouldn’t have had a clue what had been happening to children who were far too young to have the critical faculties or agency to consent.”
Addressing Ms Bindel’s accusation, Mr Streeting replied: “From memory (16 years on, so correct me if I’m wrong!) I replied to confirm that you weren’t on NUS’ no platform policy and as this was in relation to a motion passed by the autonomous women’s campaign I was not empowered to overturn it (not least as a male president!).”
#Trans women are men#Labour Party#NHS gender care#Wes Streeting is a rare man that can admit that he was wrong#Rosie Duffield is speaking the truth#Sir Keir Starmer finally admits that women don't have penises#Men seeing the light after women have suffered from stating the obvious#Cass review#Dr Hilary Cass urges caution when gives children life altering drugs and treatments
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Welcome to The Simblr Office Directory
This blog is an archive of the submissions for the office-centric OC prompt posted by the light of Simblr, @kashisun.
Here you can browse all the amazing creations submitted by your fellow simblrs. Feel free to scroll to your delight or click one of the links under the cut to see who's on roster under (or over) a particular bureau or delegation.
Want to be added to the directory or confirm that you've been queued? Just include a link to your post in an ask off anon and it will be queued within 48 hours. Until we get through the backlog and can queue at a more leisurely pace, all ask submissions will receive a confirmation. You can always mention us, but we won't be able to provided confirmation for that method.
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Every company's hierarchy is a little different. Designations for this directory are based on some of the companies I've worked for, but especially on the multi-media marketing company I work for now.
Bureaus and Their Delegations
Delegations with an * currently have low or no headcount (posted and queued). Excludes leadership.
Bureau of Client Engagement
Leadership
Billing*
Escalations*
Product Support*
Quality Assurance*
Sales*
Bureau of Compliance (Bureau-specific Internal Affairs and Auditing)
Leadership
Client Engagement*
Facilities*
Finance*
Human Resources*
Information and Technology*
Legal (General)
Legal (Leadership)
Marketing*
Bureau of Facilities
Leadership
Catering*
Environmental (Janitorial, HVAC, and Plumbing)*
Mechanical (Electrical, Elevators, Equipment Maintenance)*
Premise* (Grounds Maintenance and Real Estate)
Purchasing* (From pushpins to pallet jacks)
Security
Warehousing* (Shipping, Receiving, Mail room, and Inventory)
Bureau of Finance
Leadership
Accounting
Asset Management*
Investments*
Travel and Accommodations*
Vendor Relations*
Bureau of Human Resources
Leadership
Career Development (Internships and Internal Role Transitions)
Dependent Care*
Employee Activities Committee (Members are volunteers)
Employee Benefits*
Floating Delegates (Administration) (For profiles that list a nondescript secretary/admin/receptionist/assistant role)
Floating Delegates (General) (For profiles that do not list a position)
Floating Delegates (Leadership) (For profiles that list a nondescript managerial role)
Health Services*
Payroll*
Recruiting*
Training*
Union Relations*
Bureau of Information & Technology
Leadership
Data Security*
Infrastructure*
Public Relations
Research and Development*
Systems and Devices*
Telecommunications*
Bureau of Marketing
Leadership
Copy
Design
Planning and Implementation*
Board of Directors
Chief Officers
CEO - Chief Executive Officer/President
COO - Chief Operations Officer/Vice President
CCO - Chief Compliance Officer/Vice President
CFO - Chief Finance Officer/Vice President
CITO - Chief Information and Technology Officer/Vice President
CMO - Chief Marketing Officer/Vice President
Executive Administration* (Admins that report to chief officers)
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Hundreds of women have gone on strike in Scotland as three more councils face claims over equal pay.
Almost 500 workers walked out of their council roles in Falkirk, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire in protest at a pay grading system which they say is outdated and pays women less than comparable male-dominated jobs.
Their action follows a strike by more than 8,000 female carers, caterers and cleaners in Glasgow, in 2018, which resulted in a payout of around £500m from Glasgow council, a bill it is yet to settle fully. It was the biggest equal pay strike in history in the UK.
Workers in similar jobs in Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Angus, Fife and Moray are now in ongoing disputes over equal pay.
The GMB union, which represents many of the women bringing claims, said local authorities across Scotland risk being bankrupted. GMB Scotland secretary Louise Gilmour said Scotland’s councils were approaching equal pay claims “like the Titanic approaching the iceberg”. “Councillors have their heads in the sand and executives have their fingers in their ears, but these equal pay claims will come, will be won and will need to be settled.
“We know local authorities are struggling to make ends meet and we know why. But to suggest women workers are somehow making things worse by asking for money they are owed … is as dishonest as it is disgraceful.”
In England, Birmingham city council last year said it was unable to balance its books due, in part, to equal pay claims. The GMB has ongoing equal pay disputes with a number of other councils including Coventry and Cumberland.
Gilmour called on the Scottish government to create a new specialist body to settle equal pay claims nationwide and enforce payments.
Fiona O’Brien, a home carer in Renfrewshire since 2016 and a GMB rep, said she took strike action “as a last resort because enough is enough”.
“For a long time, we’ve been told: ‘you’ll never go on strike, you care too much, you’ll never stand up for yourselves’,” she said. “But we’ve had enough now – we’ve been taken for granted for too long.”
She said her role is different to what was advertised and more complex than the grade it is paid at, including administering medications, caring for people with dementia and mental illness, using specialist equipment and physically moving people with restricted mobility.
“It’s been inspirational to see us all coming together and standing up for what’s right and fair,” she said. “This could potentially change the road for a lot of people working in care and could also bring more people into the sector.”
In the event of a successful equal pay claim, higher pay grades could be retrospectively applied, allowing workers to claim up to five years of back pay and costing councils millions of pounds, the GMB said.
The union said it expects to see pay reviews in at least a dozen more Scottish local authorities.
A spokesperson for Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership said: “Falkirk council is committed to upholding equal pay, and continues to engage with GMB. We will seek to minimise disruption for those in need of our care and support at home services.”
A spokesperson for West Dunbartonshire council said: “We are committed to fair pay for home carers and, following a thorough and robust job evaluation process, the pay of a typical home carer has recently risen by at least £2,500 per annum through regrading of the role.”
A Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership spokesperson said: “Negotiations between the Health and Social Care Partnership with all trade unions continue. A further offer was presented to all three trade unions, and Unison and Unite have paused industrial action as they consider this renewed offer. Unfortunately, GMB is continuing with industrial action following a consultative ballot with its members.”
Renfrewshire council did not respond to the Observer’s request for comment.
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KENTUCKIANS! VOTING IS NEXT WEEK TODAY!
Election day is November 7th, from 6 am to 6 pm!!
The Committee for Fairness and Individual Rights, also known as C-FAIR, endorses these candidates as having the best interests of marginalized Kentuckians:
Governor: Andy Beshear. Notable for putting Kentucky under quarantine during 2020, standing with Black Lives Matter, and vetoing the SB150 ("Don't Say Gay Bill").
Lt. Governor: Jacqueline Coleman. Notable for working to waive the fee for adults seeking their GED and securing over $40 million to increase student mental health resources.
Secretary of State: Buddy Wheatley. Notable for legally representing worker's unions and advocating for eliminating voter restrictions by opening more polling locations.
Attorney General: Pamela Stevenson. Notable for sponsoring HB98, which would improve harm reduction centers and reduce the penalty for controlled substance use, and HB293, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Auditor of Public Accounts: Kim Reeder. Notable for her teaching career in disadvantage Kentucky schools despite holding prestigious degrees from Yale, Duke, and North Carolina Universities.
Treasurer: Michael Bowman. Notable for his plans to fund financial literacy programs and legalization of cannabis.
Commissioner of Agriculture: Sierra Enlow. Notable for her work as the economic development manager of Louisville Metro Government and Greater Louisville Inc., as well as serving on the Kentucky Association for Economic Development board.
#kentucky#election#kentucky election#kentucky rambles#queer kentucky#trans kentucky#please vote#vote blue
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Years later, autopsies would list all the ways the union and workers had been complicit in their own demise. Their contract gains had become unaffordable for the company – not just on wages, but on benefits such as pensions and retiree health coverage, and extended vacations that, for some senior workers, included thirteen weeks off every five years. Their insistence on the ‘past practices’ clause in their contract, which they gained in the 1950s to protect members against automation, prevented the company form assigning workers in the most efficient ways. The union too often covered up for lazy or unproductive workers, the ones who tucked into a truck cab for a nap.
There was truth to all this. It was also true that any indulgence or fecklessness on the part of the union was more than matched by upper management at Bethlehem Steel. Veteran executives were getting seven week vacations by 1980; there were twelve paid holidays for white collar employees, including UN Day and a floating holiday. There were company-paid security forces and chauffeurs. There was bureaucratic bloat and empire-building to rival that of any government agency; in the quarter-century before 1980, the company doubled its ranks of vice-president or higher and, as John Strohmeyer wrote, ‘each of these vice-presidents required there own assistants, assistants-to, managers, assistant managers, and secretaries.’ In 1980, the party celebrated a new chairman with a party in Boca Raton for all its managers and their wives, five hundred people in all – and then sent the incoming and outgoing chairmen and their wives on a global tour in the corporate jet with stops in Singapore, Cairo and London. When the new chairman left six years later, after presiding over $2 billion in losses, he rewarded himself with an 11 percent raise and approved $1 million severance packages for all thirteen vice presidents. One vice president used a company jet to fly his kids to college and go to a vacation retreat in upstate New York.
Rank-and-file workers were not blind to such excesses, and took them as a model.
-Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, by Alec MacGillis
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Workers at two long-term care facilities in British Columbia walked off the job on Friday, the Hospital Employees' Union (HEU) said.
Staff at Delta View Care Centre in Delta and at Pioneer Lodge in Salmon Arm who walked off the job for six hours are among the nearly 1,100 HEU members at seven facilities in B.C. run by the non-profit Good Samaritan Canada, who have been without a contract since March 31, 2020, the union said.
The non-profit has delayed and cancelled bargaining meetings, the union said. The health-care workers are demanding improvements to benefits, sick leave and other working conditions.
"Members are tired," said Meena Brisard, HEU's secretary-business manager. "We just got through COVID. They're exhausted, they work long hours. They are short-staffed and they want to be respected and have a reasonable deal."
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada
#Long term care#Healthcare#workers rights#british columbia#cdnpoli#canada#canadian politics#canadian news
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If you don't know the whole truth, here's a simple historical summary to clarify things for you:
The ongoing war between Israel and Palestine is not a war between two states, so the attack of the Palestinian resistance is not a declaration of war, but only a reaction to ...
violations that have been taking place for more than 70 years .
For more than a century, the Palestinian Territories belonged to the Ottoman Empire
During World War I, as the empire faltered , eventually giving way to the Republic of Türkiye –– Britain seized it.
In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to Lionel Rothschild, declared his full support for the establishment of a Jewish state on the Palestinian Territories
We call this promise “A promise from someone who does not possess to someone who does not deserve”
At the beginning of the implementation of this fateful promise, the number of Jews in Palestine was 7%, this percentage increased to 28% of the total population after the immigration of European Jews to Palestine under the British protectorate
After the end of World War II, the United Nations issued a resolution on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews in 1947
On May 14, 1948, the leaders of Israel met at the Tel Aviv Museum and announced the end of the British Mandate and the establishment of the state of Israel was recognized by the United States of America and the Soviet Union
The 1948 War
Many Arab countries rejected the occupation of Palestine and its partition by the United States unjustly, and many wars were won in which Israel won with the support of America and took areas of land larger than the one declared by the United States
Many armed and unarmed Palestinian organizations were formed and had one demand, which was the liberation of their state, which was divided and occupied unjustly
Violations against the Palestinian people are carried out on a daily and systematic basis there are more than 100 thousand registered martyrs / twice this number has not been counted and there are more than a million killed
The attacks are carried out in various aspects of life, including education, health, supplies that are constantly being cut off, violations of religious sanctities and provocation on all occasions and holidays
Israel does'nt want to give the Palestinians peace, as it claims, and does'nt want establish a state for Palestinians next to their so-called state, as the UN claims, the Palestinian map is shrinking dayily while the territories controlled by the Israeli occupation are expanding
Google for Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood , and you will see violations and settlement
The Palestinian resistance is only a reaction to daily violations that occur and no one talks about them
if you are a free person, you certainly will not accept all this hypocrisy and Distortion of facts from the international community
Pray for Palestine and support Palestine
#palestine#israel#arab#gaza#jerusalem#islam#free palestine#i stand with palestine#فلسطين#pray for palestine#I support Palestine
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Michael Sheen is electrifying in NHS origin story Nye — theatre review
It will be, says Michael Sheen’s Nye Bevan, eyes blazing, as he steps to the front of the National Theatre’s huge Olivier stage, “the most civilised step this country has ever taken”. He’s talking about the National Health Service, about the great, humanitarian principle of a health service free at the point of delivery, about an institution that remains cherished above all others by the British people. And in Tim Price’s epic new play about the Welsh Labour politician Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, he’s speaking across the decades to the present day, when the beleaguered NHS lies on its own sickbed, delivering an account of how and why the health service was born and the radical impulse behind it. A mighty, moving and sometimes messy piece of theatre, it’s really, at heart, a state-of-the-nation play. And like Dear England and Standing at the Sky’s Edge before it, Nye (a co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre) seizes this venue’s great potential as a national public forum to frame critical questions about who we are and who we want to be.
It’s also a drama that picks up Bevan’s audacity and runs with it, shrugging off sober realism for a swirling fantasia. Here Bevan, who as secretary of state for health spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948, lies dying in one of his own hospitals, his life swimming before him as he drifts in morphine-inflected dreams. He actually died at home, but that poetic licence is part and parcel of this show’s ethos, which bundles up the political fight to launch the NHS with a private reckoning with conscience. So, as Bevan’s wife, MP Jennie Lee, and life-long friend Archie Lush (Roger Evans) sit by his sickbed, we dart with his troubled mind around key moments that have brought him to this point: a classroom rebellion against a teacher caning the young Nye for stammering; an epiphany in a public library when he realises how a wider vocabulary can help him; buccaneering moments as a union rep for miners; parliamentary showdowns; a key wartime exchange with Churchill that makes the firebrand young politician see the point of political compromise. At the centre of it all is his sense of guilt and impotence at his father’s terrible death from pneumoconiosis, which Price sees as a key psychological factor in his determination to establish healthcare accessible to all.
Director Rufus Norris stages all this with wit and drive, using Vicki Mortimer’s canny set design of sliding hospital curtains to send scenes tumbling over one another as they do in dreams. At one point the screens stack up in rows, like benches in the House of Commons; at another, several hospital beds — and their startled occupants — are tipped on their sides to form the tables for a committee meeting. Like a Greek chorus, an ever-busy cast plays patients, politicians, miners, doctors — and, in one memorably moving scene, a crowd of desperate ordinary people importuning Bevan on behalf of their sick relatives. There are casualties to this approach. There’s a tendency to reach for stereotypes and to push political points that don’t need pushing. There’s also so much going on that we don’t get enough of an up-close study of Bevan the man, or of the critical period when the postwar Labour party heaved the welfare state into being. The play is often at its best when it focuses on personal exchanges, particularly between Nye and Jennie — a remarkable politician in her own right, played here with fiery wit by Sharon Small.
But this is, unashamedly, a play about principle, passion and compassion, driven by a fantastic ensemble and an electrifying performance from Sheen. Even in his pink pyjamas, his Bevan has a stature that throws down a gauntlet to today’s politicians across the river Thames.
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If you don't know the whole truth, here's a simple historical summary to clarify things for you:
The ongoing war between Israel and Palestine is not a war between two states, so the attack of the Palestinian resistance is not a declaration of war, but only a reaction to
...violations that have been taking place for more than 70 years .
For more than a century, the Palestinian Territories belonged to the Ottoman Empire
During World War I, as the empire faltered , eventually giving way to the Republic of Türkiye –– Britain seized it.
In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to Lionel Rothschild, declared his full support for the establishment of a Jewish state on the Palestinian Territories
We call this promise “A promise from someone who does not possess to someone who does not deserve”
At the beginning of the implementation of this fateful promise, the number of Jews in Palestine was 7%, this percentage increased to 28% of the total population after the immigration of European Jews to Palestine under the British protectorate
After the end of World War II, the United Nations issued a resolution on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews in 1947
On May 14, 1948, the leaders of Israel met at the Tel Aviv Museum and announced the end of the British Mandate and the establishment of the state of Israel was recognized by the United States of America and the Soviet Union
The 1948 War
Many Arab countries rejected the occupation of Palestine and its partition by the United States unjustly, and many wars were won in which Israel won with the support of America and took areas of land larger than the one declared by the United States
Many armed and unarmed Palestinian organizations were formed and had one demand, which was the liberation of their state, which was divided and occupied unjustly
Violations against the Palestinian people are carried out on a daily and systematic basis there are more than 100 thousand registered martyrs / twice this number has not been counted and there are more than a million killed
The attacks are carried out in various aspects of life, including education, health, supplies that are constantly being cut off, violations of religious sanctities and provocation on all occasions and holidays
Israel does’nt want to give the Palestinians peace, as it claims, and does’nt want establish a state for Palestinians next to their so-called state, as the UN claims, the Palestinian map is shrinking dayily while the territories controlled by the Israeli occupation are expanding
Google for Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood , and you will see violations and settlement
The Palestinian resistance is only a reaction to daily violations that occur and no one talks about them
If you are a free person, you certainly will not accept all this hypocrisy and Distortion of facts from the international community
Pray for Palestine and support Palestine 🇵🇸
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This post is addressed to non-Arab users
Check the french version here
If you don't know the whole truth, here's a simple historical summary to clarify things for you:
The ongoing war between Israel and Palestine is not a war between two states, so the attack of the Palestinian resistance is not a declaration of war, but only a reaction to ...
violations that have been taking place for more than 70 years .
For more than a century, the Palestinian Territories belonged to the Ottoman Empire
During World War I, as the empire faltered , eventually giving way to the Republic of Türkiye –– Britain seized it.
In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, in a letter to Lionel Rothschild, declared his full support for the establishment of a Jewish state on the Palestinian Territories
We call this promise “A promise from someone who does not possess to someone who does not deserve”
At the beginning of the implementation of this fateful promise, the number of Jews in Palestine was 7%, this percentage increased to 28% of the total population after the immigration of European Jews to Palestine under the British protectorate
After the end of World War II, the United Nations issued a resolution on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews in 1947
On May 14, 1948, the leaders of Israel met at the Tel Aviv Museum and announced the end of the British Mandate and the establishment of the state of Israel was recognized by the United States of America and the Soviet Union
The 1948 War
Many Arab countries rejected the occupation of Palestine and its partition by the United States unjustly, and many wars were won in which Israel won with the support of America and took areas of land larger than the one declared by the United States
Many armed and unarmed Palestinian organizations were formed and had one demand, which was the liberation of their state, which was divided and occupied unjustly
Violations against the Palestinian people are carried out on a daily and systematic basis there are more than 100 thousand registered martyrs / twice this number has not been counted and there are more than a million killed
The attacks are carried out in various aspects of life, including education, health, supplies that are constantly being cut off, violations of religious sanctities and provocation on all occasions and holidays
Israel does'nt want to give the Palestinians peace, as it claims, and does'nt want establish a state for Palestinians next to their so-called state, as the UN claims, the Palestinian map is shrinking dayily while the territories controlled by the Israeli occupation are expanding
Google for Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood , and you will see violations and settlement
The Palestinian resistance is only a reaction to daily violations that occur and no one talks about them
if you are a free person, you certainly will not accept all this hypocrisy and Distortion of facts from the international community
Pray for Palestine and support Palestine
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WIP Wednesday
Picture this; Alex and Henry, 38 years old, privately married. Alex working as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the youngest member of the President’s Cabinet. Henry’s shelters are international and his popularity as a Royal Family member still high.
Alex is named Designated Survivor for the State of the Union speech and is required to wait in an undisclosed location. His role is to ensure continuity of government if anything was to happen.
And then, something happens.
The Capitol is decimated and Alex is sworn in as President.
What happens when the role Alex wasn’t sure he wanted anymore he suddenly has?
What happens when his secret marriage to a Prince of another country is now at risk of exposure?
What happens when it becomes Alex’s responsibility to rebuilt the country while grieving the loss of people dear to him?
So proud of this little fic I’ve been working on so far. It is my first multi chaptered story and each comment and kudo is warming my heart and healing a part of me I wasn’t aware was hurting.
It takes inspiration from the tv show Designated Survivor and there is elements of the show but the story had mostly taken a life of its own.
Interwoven into a fast paced storyline is moments of calm, memories of good times, and a deeper understanding of how the characters got to where they are.
Some quotes below;
When Alex is sworn in as President
Alex reached inside his shirt, slightly damp with sweat, and pulled out his necklace - the house key, Henry’s signet ring and Alex’s wedding ring dangling from the chain. Their homes, side by side, connected by their vows.
“You and me and history, remember?” Henry uttered quietly. A reminder. It was them against the world. Whatever was about to happen, they had each other.
He removed the chain hastily, laying it over Henry’s open palm and placing his left hand on top.
Alex nodded, “Okay,” He looked back at Davis, raising his right hand in preparation, “Let’s do this.”
Alex dealing with intimating people
The general was a breath away from Alex’s face. The attempts at intimidation were futile, Alex having dealt with these kinds of people his whole life. There was no need for them to give respect to him when they’d already made a decision about who he was before they knew him. They saw the colour of his skin and decided he was never quite American enough. They heard him speak his language, saw his last name, and decided he didn’t belong. They saw how his face clung to the remnants of youth, the lack of lines littering his face, and decided he was too young. Throw in his sexuality, his relationship status and his private business being repeatedly aired for public consumption and it was the perfect cocktail into a false belief they would have the upper hand on him.
Alex and June reminiscing in the midst of chaos
“I swear our weddings were the only two times I’ve seen mom cry,” June reminisced, breaking Alex’s train of nostalgia.
“She’s a tough one to break. Remember what she said to me after my wedding?” Alex said before mimicking his mom’s accent, “Don’t forget to pack the condoms Sugar, the only thing you want from your honeymoon is memories.”
June burst into laughter, Alex quickly joining.
“Remember -” June started, trying to catch her breath, “the powerpoint she made me when I told her about Nora?”
“Oh my god yes!” Alex cackled, “I still cannot believe the amount of scissor imagery she managed to put into one presentation!”
Henry remembering when Alex proposed
Alex took a deep breath and bent down onto his knee, looking up at Henry with such love and adoration, it knocked the air from his lungs. Henry had spent his life reading about love. He studied the written words of it scattered throughout history, examined how the penned ink described the complexities of the emotion. He memorised soliloquies, read literature, recited poetry and for all the work he had done to try and understand it, he knew how nonsensical love truly was. With Alex though, love made sense.
Happy reading! :)
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Happy birthday, Enver Hoxha! (October 16, 1908)
Longtime leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Enver Hoxha was born to a Muslim family in Gjirokastër, and worked as a secretary and teacher with communist sympathies before the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939. When the Communist Party of Albania, later the Party of Labor of Albania, was formed in 1941, Hoxha was chosen as a Muslim representative in the party's central committee, and he came to lead the party outright as First Secretary two years later. Hoxha helped coordinate the activities of Albanian partisans throughout World War II. After the war, the King of Albania was deposed and Albania was proclaimed a socialist republic, with Hoxha as its leader. Initially a strong supporter of the Soviet Union, Hoxha decried Krushchev's reforms as revisionism and aligned Albania with China in the Sino-Soviet Split. Eventually breaking with China as well over changes in Chinese foreign policy, Hoxha set out to build a policy of self-reliance for Albania. This included the construction of thousands of bunkers across the country for national defense. Other achievements of Hoxha's leaderships included advancements in education, healthcare, and infrastructure; Albania became the world's first fully-electrified country in 1970. In poor health since the early 1970s, Hoxha died in 1985.
"Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism."
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