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Hundreds in Oakland Turn Out to BBQ While Black

The event was held at Lake Merritt, where two black men were hassled for grilling. “It was a sea of love and blackness and food and fun,” an organizer said.

New brochure to prepare Swedes for crisis or war

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The cover of the English version of MSB’s brochure If Crisis or War Comes.

Lyssna: New brochure to prepare Swedes for crisis or war

A brochure titled If Crisis or War Comes will soon be sent out to all Swedish households. The Civil Contingencies Agency is behind the initiative – the first of its kind since the Cold War.

The aim of the pamphlet is to help Swedes become better prepared for everything from serious accidents and extreme weather to IT attacks and military conflicts. Nevertheless, Dan Eliasson, director-general of the Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), says there is “no cause for alarm”.

“We want to give support regarding how to prepare for an emergency or a crisis because it can happen, but Sweden is still a safe country to live in,” Eliasson told Radio Sweden.

Project manager Christina Andersson said her team has put considerable effort into ensuring people who do not speak fluent Swedish get the information. Her team, she said, is also aware that many newly arrived immigrants have come from countries that are already at war or in deep crisis.

“To that group we want to say that we don’t send out this brochure because of any acute danger…But people have the right to know what can happen,” Andersson said.

Nathalie Rothschild
nathalie.rothschild@sr.se

Sweden wins Ice Hockey World Championship

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Players celebrate winning 2018 World Championships in ice hockey

Lyssna: Sweden wins Ice Hockey World Championship

The reigning champions successfully defended their title on Sunday.

Sweden won gold in the Ice Hockey World Championships in Copenhagen on Sunday, beating Switzerland 3-2 in penalties.

While Switzerland took the lead twice, Sweden managed to equalize both times, leading to a 2-2 draw in regular time. Following 20 minutes of overtime, the game went to penalties, where Anders Nilsson, Filip Forsberg and Oliver Ekman-Larsson helped Sweden to victory.

The Swedish team was undefeated in the tournament.

Radio Sweden spoke to Markus Korpinen, a hockey consultant at the Swedish Hockey Association, who works developing the next generation of leaders and players, about what the victory means for Swedish hockey.

Philip Barjami
philip.barjami@sverigesradio.se

Sweden distributes ‘be prepared for war’ leaflet to all 4.8m homes

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Defence pamphlet shows how population can prepare in event of attack and contribute to country’s ‘total defence’

The Swedish government has begun sending all 4.8m of the country’s households a public information leaflet telling the population, for the first time in more than half a century, what to do in the event of a war.

Om krisen eller kriget kommer (If crisis or war comes) explains how people can secure basic needs such as food, water and heat, what warning signals mean, where to find bomb shelters and how to contribute to Sweden’s “total defence”.

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The pope says God made gay people just as we should be – here’s why his comments matter

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Francis’s reported remarks show a new Catholic acceptance of LGBT people and confirm what many of us have always known: God doesn’t make mistakes

It is immensely powerful to hear that Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic church, reportedly told Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay man: “God made you like this and loves you like this.”

Cruz is a survivor of clerical abuse who spoke privately with the pope a few weeks ago, and has since reported his conversation to Spanish newspapers. His abuser, Fernando Karadima, was found guilty of abuse by the Vatican in 2011.

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The recent mass shootings in the US all have one thing in common: misogyny | Jessica Valenti

Word!

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The longer we ignore the toxic masculinity that underlies so many of these crimes, the more violence we’re enabling

The massacre at Santa Fe high school last week that left 10 people dead – most of them students – seems to have something in common with so many other mass shootings that happen in the US: misogyny. The shooter, one victim’s mother claims, targeted her daughter as the first victim because she rejected his continued harassing advances.

How many more tragedies have to happen before we recognize that misogyny kills? The longer we ignore the toxic masculinity that underlies so many of these crimes, the more violence we’re enabling.

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Trump attacks former CIA director ahead of Haspel’s swearing-in

He smears everyone and everything with his hubris and…

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Trump suggested John Brennan was to blame for Robert Mueller’s investigation, referencing remarks from Fox & Friends

Donald Trump praised the new CIA director, Gina Haspel, at her swearing-in ceremony on Monday, saying there was “no one in this country better qualified” for the job.

Related: After Trump attacks New York Times, Giuliani tells paper Mueller will be done by September

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Danish politician says Muslims stay off work during Ramadan

Crap for brains!

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Critics scorn Inger Støjberg’s ‘completely absurd idea’ that daylight fasting is dangerous

A Danish government minister has asserted that Muslims should not work during Ramadan because the month-long daylight fasting period poses safety hazards in some professions and makes the practice “dangerous for us all.”

The integration minister, Inger Støjberg, an immigration hardliner in Denmark’s centre-right government, questioned in a blog post on Monday how “commanding observance to a 1,400-year-old pillar of Islam” was compatible with modern labour markets.

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