Category: bererblog
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An accusation going round the women’s movement that must be rejected
“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…
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In Memoriam: Eddie Mhlanga: a doctor and a friend with the biggest smile and the warmest heart in the world
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…
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RE: End mass jabs and live with Covid, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce: I say NO NO NO NO NO
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…
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FGM guilty conviction in Dublin quashed
by Marge Berer, 21 November 2021 This was the headline on more than half a dozen Irish news sites on 18-19 November 2021. In all but two, the same report was repeated, almost word for word as if the writers had just copied and published what an unacknowledged source had published. Clearly they’d not had…
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Motion passed at Labour Conference on Israel and Palestine, 27 September 2021
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…
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To the readers of my blog
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…
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HANDS OFF THE NHS!: A letter to my MP
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…
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Sharing an important human rights statement about Israel-Palestine
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…
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Covid-19 & Vaccines
“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” [This sub-title is taken from the WHO Covax report: “Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.” Covax offers: Doses for at least 20% of countries’ populations; Diverse and actively managed portfolio of vaccines; Vaccines delivered as soon as they are available; End…
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The pandemic is out of control because we’re not protecting ourselves and each other! We can do this better!!
Far too many people in the UK are not taking the two most important precautions to protect themselves and each other from Covid-19 when they are not at home: * always wearing a mask & * always staying away from other people (2 feet at least and 6 feet whenever possible) When I go outside…