Don't Follow Leaders

Well, after all these years of blogging, sometimes I feel like just boiling it down to the essentials and nothing could be more essential than thinking for yourself.

DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS

Don’t let the sinister tory party destroy our fundamental Rights and fob us off with ‘Human-Rights-Lite’.  Once lost, our basic rights would be extremely difficult to reinstate.  Take action now – sign the petitions and share them around.  Write to your MP and express your thoughts.  Print out this 'Defend Human Rights' poster and display it where it can be seen.  Show your solidarity for the Rights that underpin our very civilization!   If ever  a cause mattered this is it!

Amnesty International – Keep The Human Rights Act Petition:

http://keeptheact.uk/#signup-form

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/13/arguments-human-rights-act-michael-gove-repeal-myth-busting

Scrapping the Human Rights Act could bring return of ‘troubles’ to Ulster
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/12/scrapping-human-rights-act-would-breach-good-friday-agreement

Stand up for Justice for Kingsley Burrell, another black man dead after being ‘policed’

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/15/kingsley-burrell-restrained-by-police-died-from-neglect-inquest-finds

https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley

http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.co.uk/

https://unityequalitypeace.wordpress.com/kingsley-burrell-brown-his-story/

United Friends and Families Campaign – For the loved ones of police/custody-death victims
http://www.uffc-campaigncentral.net/

Don’t renege on Reynard

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do-not-repeal-the-fox-hunting-ban?bucket=blast

Beam us up, Scottie, we cannae take any more!

https://www.change.org/p/the-uk-government-allow-the-north-of-england-to-secede-from-the-uk-and-join-scotland

INTERNATIONAL……

Code Pink:  Stop the Violence in Yemen

http://www.codepink.org/stop_the_violence_in_yemen?utm_campaign=yemen_05142015d&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Defend Human Rights in Azerbaijan 

http://bankwatch.org/EBRDam?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBRDam+-+Human+Rights+Azerbaijan&utm_content=EBRDam+-+Human+Rights+Azerbaijan+CID_827d4d61e54d6da2cbc138dcb1150312&utm_source=Email%20marketing&utm_term=Tell%20the%20bank%20and%20EU%20leaders%20that%20we%20wont%20stand%20for%20putting%20corporate%20profits%20before%20human%20rights

Update on ‘Justice for Kaleb’ Campaign

https://www.change.org/p/justiceforkayleb-an-autistic-6th-grader-unfairly-convicted-of-a-felony/u/10766489?tk=cBrcIQ-ffvxdoyZsZhRvn4rZrafML-osUhCSAtV4gq4&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email

Save Mary Jane Veloso

https://www.change.org/p/indonesian-pres-joko-widodo-jokowi-do2-save-the-life-of-human-trafficking-victim-mary-jane-veloso/u/10765401?tk=pUoPpFwsQVUX5zg3UH_MxpN2nGE-0oZGt80f_YaPMmA&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email

Release the Panchen Lama, kidnapped by China at 6 years old

http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1762&ea.campaign.id=27806

Human Rights Lawyer arrested by Chinese ‘authorities’

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/lawyer-pu-zhiqiang-ai-weiwei-charged-provoking-trouble-china

Camoron “will not be lecturing or hectoring the Chinese on Human Rights”, having “drawn a line under Tibet” – but YOU can still help these people struggle for their basic rights, the very rights that are under threat in Britain from the reactionary forces of conservatism.

https://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/

Free Atena Farghadari, Iranian Artist Jailed for her Art

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/iran-free-atena-farghadani-womens-rights-activist?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Targeted&utm_campaign=Freedom%20of%20Expression&utm_content=Atena%20email%20%20-%20button1

USA: Preserve the Endangered Species Act

http://www.audubonaction.org/site/News2?abbr=aa_&page=NewsArticle&id=6293&pgwrap=n&autologin=true&utm_source=action&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-05-14-advisory#skip_interests

Kansas: Give back Shona’s son!

https://www.change.org/p/give-shona-banda-a-loving-mom-and-medical-marijuana-patient-custody-of-her-son?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=309245&alert_id=qcEibnYoqQ_BWWNJSV0%2FqBeUUv%2BVLfxcleqNcwUfZQ8nYNtnlPzE1kCsCETNg452IE3gMGCLH9u

Everybody's Got a Right To Live - 

Rev. F.D Kirkpatrick with James Collier & Pete Seeger

It's going to take more than just signing petitions, it's going to take a lot of citizen-activism...
Defend Human Rights - it's up to you.....

Derek Thomas Liquidates Human Rights in Cornwall

Camoron’s first step as reinstalled Prime Minister of Britannia is his proposition to strip us Brits of our Human Rights.  This includes the Right to Life, Justice, Freedom from Torture, Access to Legal Representation, and such trivialities.

His next move is an attack on Workers Right to Strike.  

Derek Thomas, our Member of Parliament for West Cornwall will oversee the dehumanisation of Rights in Kernow.  Is it 2015… or 1933? These Bullingdon Boys need to be stopped.  If you care about Democracy & Liberty now is the time to commit yourself to the Anti-Tory-Movement.   

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/  

The Human Rights Act

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/your-rights/human-rights/what-are-human-rights/human-rights-act

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/giving/join/protect-human-rights-uk-join-us

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-party-conference-cameron-announces-plans-to-scrap-human-rights-act-9767435.html

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-putting-the-abolition-of-the-human-rights-act-into-the-queens-speech?source=facebook-share-button&time=1431361379

The European Convention on Human Rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights

https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/sites/default/files/lord-bingham-speech-final.pdf

Electoral Reform  

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uk_electoral_reform_locrb/?bNnuJab&v=58125

International Events:

Save The Life of Mary Jane Veloso
https://www.change.org/p/indonesian-pres-joko-widodo-jokowi-do2-save-the-life-of-human-trafficking-victim-mary-jane-veloso?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=302209&alert_id=CeYVFYVTfj_Wj%2BdlRvH%2FOLIG5YVg6IqeHyDDLDk8RUW%2FcuSiTVpwtvIgh1xKt1%2BBo7qVebI9dRw

Protect Florida Whistle-Blower
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-department-of-justice-transfer-my-whistleblower-brother-for-his-own-safety-his-life-is-in-danger/u/10668009?tk=6AcXRSiUC__MSXjimygVA954cvw5g0-4tNr8ROxKwfs&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email

Justice for Kaleb
https://www.change.org/p/justiceforkayleb-an-autistic-6th-grader-unfairly-convicted-of-a-felony?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=295671&alert_id=AbbEtOeQbw_pfMw3qvwawLSEwnP7DD9t5ECOSnXsHjbvB9Ehg0GWT4AZS3%2FNhdPZxrS9RZC87QR

Let The Hungry Be Fed
https://www.change.org/p/rescind-the-cruel-anti-homeless-feeding-bans/sign?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=304753&alert_id=vPmEtghoLN_qi0I7R2BO9tDv6gJB3Mj9cwJOSleGVOk7acKdhaD888%3D

Oppose Privitisation of The National Gallery
https://www.facebook.com/events/1581639075450412

A Great Radical from Newlyn, Cornwall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lovett

Organize!  (A playlist for social liberation.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oi4zt1rMsE&list=PLkMZb0s_TYEb9QU6JsFNHKFDUVCnZt838

Burning Spear – Door Peep Shall Not Enter



The National Health service and the Welfare State have come to be used as interchangeable terms, and in the mouths of some people as terms of reproach. Why this is so it is not difficult to understand, if you view everything from the angle of a strictly individualistic competitive society. A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society.

—Aneurin Bevan, ‘In Place of Fear’