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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…
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Rwanda? Are you as out of your minds as Vladimir Putin?
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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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