https://wordpress.com/post/bererblog.wordpress.com/1755 I urge everyone to read this review and write a strong letter of protest to Priti Patel and George Biden against the extradition of Assange to the USA, where his illegal and prolonged mental and physical torture and ill-treatment will be continued, as it has been continued non-stop here in the UK, until it…

14 April 2022 Dear Members of Parliament and less and less honourable Members, I am writing this in a state of utter disgust and disbelief that as members of Parliament in a country that pretends to be civilised and democratic, to follow the rule of law and respect the right to life, that you and…

“You’re only supporting them because they’re white and look like you.” I heard a version of this accusation about supporting Ukraine several days ago and decided I had to make a personal reply to it. First, “they” (Ukrainians) are not all white. According to the 2001 All-Ukrainian population census data, the representatives of more than 130 nationalities…

Published in the ICWRSA Newsletter, 11 February 2022 It is with great sadness that we report that Eddie Mhlanga, professor, policymaker, obstetrician-gynaecologist, abortion provider, passionate advocate for public health and women’s health and rights, and much loved colleague, died on 5 February 2022 after a short illness. He was only age 68. Here are some…

Marge Berer This is a copy of an email I sent to the Guardian Editor, Katharine Viner, 10 January 2022 Dear Ms Viner I have been a loyal Guardian reader since… 1973. In the past several years, however, I have become increasingly concerned about a growing number of aspects of your editorial policy, to the…

Composite one Conference condemns the ongoing Nakba in Palestine, Israel’s militarised violence attacking the Al Aqsa mosque, the forced displacements from Sheikh Jarrah and the deadly assault on Gaza. Together with the de facto annexation of Palestinian land by accelerated settlement building and statements of Israel’s intention to proceed with annexation, it is ever clearer…

Dear readers, I have not written much on this blog this year as work and mental survival have swallowed up my time and energy. However, I want to say very briefly that I do not appreciate people signing on to read this blog who do not identify themselves but who use made-up names. Several months…

Dear Nickie Aiken, Of all the serious things your Government is doing wrong and all the hurt you are causing, I never thought I would have to send you an email about you agreeing to sell off the NHS. Let alone in the middle of a pandemic, when the NHS is on its knees because…

A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid by B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 12 January 2021 The article begins: “More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River…