Friday 25 March 2011
Monday 21 March 2011
IPCC condemns Manchester police over David Askew death | Politics | The Guardian
IPCC condemns Manchester police over David Askew death | Politics | The Guardian
The chief executive of the disability charity Mencap, Mark Goldring, said Askew had endured "terrible and prolonged abuse".
He said: "Mencap estimates that as many as nine out of 10 people with a learning disability are verbally harassed or exposed to violence due to their disability.
"It is hate crime and deserves to be taken as seriously as racial, religious and homophobic crime."
The IPCC report should be "a wake-up call", said Richard Hawkes, the chief executive of Scope.
He said: "Disabled people experience harassment and abuse on a daily basis, simply because they are different.
"Often it starts with persistent low-level incidents. But if left unchecked, antisocial behaviour can escalate into something more serious. The impact can be unspeakable.
"Victims find it hard to come forward. Many will ignore harassment – others will find the justice system literally inaccessible.
"As a result, disability hate crime is sorely under-reported and official figures mask the true scale of the problem. Where it is reported, conviction rates are much lower than other types of hate crime."
Friday 18 March 2011
I’m from the RIGHT and I think cuts are WRONG! | Report | False Economy
I’m from the RIGHT and I think cuts are WRONG! | Report | False Economy
By Black Triangle activist Be Hinderhund (Mel)
Thursday 17 March 2011
David Graeber – The new anarchists | Eagainst.com - Autonomy against Barbarism
David Graeber – The new anarchists | Eagainst.com - Autonomy against Barbarism
"The phrase ‘anti-globalization movement’ is a coinage of the US media and activists have never felt comfortable with it. Insofar as this is a movement against anything, it’s against neoliberalism, which can be defined as a kind of market fundamentalism—or, better, market Stalinism—that holds there is only one possible direction for human historical development. The map is held by an elite of economists and corporate flacks, to whom must be ceded all power once held by institutions with any shred of democratic accountability; from now on it will be wielded largely through unelected treaty organizations like the IMF, WTO or NAFTA. In Argentina, or Estonia, or Taiwan, it would be possible to say this straight out: ‘We are a movement against neoliberalism’. But in the US, language is always a problem. The corporate media here is probably the most politically monolithic on the planet: neoliberalism is all there is to see—the background reality; as a result, the word itself cannot be used. The issues involved can only be addressed using propaganda terms like ‘free trade’ or ‘the free market’. So American activists find themselves in a quandary: if one suggests putting ‘the N word’ (as it’s often called) in a pamphlet or press release, alarm bells immediately go off: one is being exclusionary, playing only to an educated elite. There have been all sorts of attempts to frame alternative expressions—we’re a ‘global justice movement’, we’re a movement ‘against corporate globalization’. None are especially elegant or quite satisfying and, as a result, it is common in meetings to hear the speakers using ‘globalization movement’ and ‘anti-globalization movement’ pretty much interchangeably."
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