[NetBehaviour] query about politics -

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Michael,
I may be wrong (being in Providence isn't the center of the world by a long
shot), but people seem numbed here; between the tweets and retracting of
whatever compassionate laws we've had, the protests are continuous but seem
at least to me, pessimistic. The news is a barrage of bad; we're all
waiting and preparing for the November mid-term elections...
Alan (btw we're still trying to leave Providence, tied up in all sorts of
messes)

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Michael Szpakowski <m at michaelszpakowski.org>
wrote:

> Hi Alan
> What is really significant about all this, though, is that this shocking
> racism has cost the Home Secretary, one of the high offices of the British
> State, her job, and it has transformed the terms of the debate on race here.
> Even in sleepy old Harlow -where anti racist campaigners have been
> regularly abused in the past couple of years- I know, I've been threatened
> and even spat on - a campaign stall last Saturday calling for Rudd's ( and
> May's) resignation was warmly supported.
> The local MP ( from May's party) and his supporters were campaigning
> nearby for this Thursday local elections..
> They packed up when we started shouting -*'How do you know when a Tory is
> lying? -Their lips move!'*
> Across the country ordinary people have not conformed to the media
> narrative of bigotry but have been shocked by what has gone on
>
> You can see the banners we used here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/41035408564/
>
> Now we need to push forward to get rid of the vile racist May  (who bigged
> up the 'hostile environment' and continues to muddy the water by
> scapegoating 'undeserving' immigrants) and the rest of her party.
> This is do-able.  No need for despair, no justification for passivity,
> every reason for hope ...
> warmest wishes
> Michael
>
>
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> *From:* Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] query about politics -
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>
> Apologies for not having heard of this; as you know, we have our own
> simmilar forms of brutality here...
>
> Thanks, Alan
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2018, Johannes Birringer wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Alan
> > yes, it probably is precisely as horrific as you felt it was,
> > there is much debate currently in the Uk about the "Windrush" generation
> and people who came here many years ago from the Caribbean
> > and have lived and worked and paid taxes in England but some have no
> passports or legal documents and many have been threatened
> > or had been under threat of what these unspeakably pitiful politicians
> call "enforced return." Some who visited former folks/family in Jamaica
> > were unable to return to their children in England. Immigration removal,
> what a ghastly notion.
> >
> > Johannes Birringer
> >
> >
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> > https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/amber-
> rudd-was-told-about-migrant-removal-targets-leak-reveals
> >
> > -
> > ? Can someone please comment on this? Is this as horrific as it sounds?
> >
> > Thanks, Alan, apologies for off-topic?
> >
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