All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Claudia Rankine: ‘By white privilege I mean the ability to stay alive’ | Books | The Guardian 

None of us should have to be living with the precarity of [thinking that] maybe if we leave our house, we will be shot for no reason at all simply because of the colour of our skin. They cannot comprehend that, because that should not exist. White people think when I say white privilege I mean economic privilege but I mean white living. The ability to stay alive.

Source: Claudia Rankine: ‘By white privilege I mean the ability to stay alive’ | Books | The Guardian

‘I do not see a single student wash their hands’: teacher’s diary of the first week back at school | Education | The Guardian – Great Britain

Throughout the day, unmasked adults lead groups of unmasked children around the school grounds without socially distancing from them at all. The scenes shock me in the same way as when I look back at archive footage of music concerts.

Source: ‘I do not see a single student wash their hands’: teacher’s diary of the first week back at school | Education | The Guardian

‘Everyone was drenched in the virus’: was this Austrian ski resort a Covid-19 ground zero? | World news | The Guardian

At least 28 people who visited Ischgl in late February and early March died of Covid-19. Four of the eight men in Jackson’s group fell ill with the virus on their return. Many thousands more are thought to have caught it at the resort. By mid-March, it was clear that tourists travelling in and out of the Paznaun valley had been the key accelerators behind the first wave of the virus on the European continent.

Source: ‘Everyone was drenched in the virus’: was this Austrian ski resort a Covid-19 ground zero? | World news | The Guardian

Civil servants’ union threatens strike action over back-to-office plans | Politics | The Guardian

Pouring cold water on the government campaign, Alex Brazier, the Bank’s executive director for financial stability strategy and risk, said it was “not possible” for a mass return to city centre offices this autumn due to Covid guidelines, concerns over the health risks, and transport capacity problems.

Analysis of mobile phone data last month suggested only 17% of UK workers had returned to the office, despite the push by the government for people to stop working from home.

Source: Civil servants’ union threatens strike action over back-to-office plans | Politics | The Guardian

Trump moves to cancel ‘divisive’ racial diversity training programs at White House

I doubt there will be resignations over this… even though Trump should take up Putin’s offer of asylum and a Crimean Dacha. and resign for “health” reasons.

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The memo released Friday directs all federal agencies to identify any contracts or other spending for training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” and other “propaganda.”

White House tells federal agencies to cancel ‘divisive’ racial sensitivity training: report

ROTFLMOA – what would they know about being un-American or divisive…? oh wait… Trump is expert at being divisive and un-American. He just wants to eliminate any real attempt to be less racist, sexist, anti-white supremacist…

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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has reportedly directed federal agencies to cancel employee racial sensitivity training that may be “divisive” and “un-American,” …