politics for the 99%

Published on The Guardian, Sept 14, 2015.

School is most common place for bullying, and only a quarter of children think their school’s anti-bullying policy works (see also: Bullied children more likely to suffer from adult obesity and heart attacks) … //

… Six out of 10 children said they had seen other people being bullied at their school and 80% of victims said it happened in front of other people. Eight out of 10 had told someone about it, and those who had not said they didn’t think anyone would be able to do anything about it.

More than 70% of the 1,500 children surveyed knew their schools had an anti-bullying policy, but only a quarter thought it was working.

The survey was commissioned to launch Good Morning Britain’s Action! Against Bullying campaign. The campaign is calling on schoolchildren to make a one-minute anti-bullying film, with the winner to be shown in cinemas.

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Kidscape:

• on en.wikipedia is a London-based charity[1] established in 1985 by child psychologist Michele Elliott.[2] Its focus is on children’s safety, with an emphasis on the prevention of harm by equipping children with techniques and mindsets that help them stay safe …;
• their website.

Links:

Zschool, World Institute for Social Change WISC, starting September 1, 2015 … important new website;

MMN Event This Monday: Politics, Corruption, and Campaign Finance, on naked capitalism, by Nathan Tankus, Sept 14, 2015;

Schengen no more? The EU as we know it is on the brink, on Russia Today RT, Sept 14, 2015;

The Most Leftwing Leader Labor Has Ever Had – Jeremy Corbyn, on Counterpunch, by TARIQ ALI, Sept 14, 2015;

There’s no stigma – why so many Danish women are opting to become single mothers, on The Guardian, by Helen Russell in Aarhus, Sept 14, 2015: more and more women in the country are deciding to start families using donor sperm, rather than waiting for the right man to come along;

Counting the Cost: The billion dollar business of refugee smuggling, 25.00 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, Sept 14, 2015 … is an online school for developing and sharing ideas, skills, vision, and strategy within and across progressive constituencies. WISC is a partnership project. Diverse partner organizations plus its faculty constitute its hosts …;

Bildband über den VW Bus: Liebe geht durch den Wagen, auf Spiegel Online.de, von Sören Harder, 14. Sept 2015 (15 Fotos): ein Millionär, der seinen alten Transporter jeder Villa vorzieht: Das muss Liebe sein – “Bulli Love”. Ein Bildband erzählt von der Zuneigung von Menschen zu ihrem VW Bus;

andere Fotostrecken (Photo Galleries) auf Spiegel Online.de;

Jeremy Corbyn Fiery Syrian Refugee Rally, FULL SPEECH at Parliament Square After Elected, 7.12 min, uploaded by YouTopNews, Sept 12, 2015;

Food Justice, on JANE FINCH STYLE action agains poverty JFAAP, by Saveschools, Sept 12, 2015;

Jeremy Corbyn creates new wave of left enthusiasm with old-school socialism, on The Sydney Morning Herald, by Nick Miller, Sept 11, 2015: London: In a small hall in Islington on Thursday night, a scruffy, bearded, bicycle-riding, vest-wearing, anti-austerity maverick made his final speech as Labour’s unlikely likely next leader …;

Water hyacinth try-out, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Gamal Nkrumah, Sept 10, 2015: Artist Hemat Salah works with local peasant women to make products from the pulp and fibre of water hyacinths near the ancient necropolis of Dahshour. Eichhornia crassipes is the scientific name for the much-maligned species of free-floating perennial hydrophyte that is regarded in many countries as a dubious and invasive Pandora’s Box. It is better known as the water hyacinth, an aquatic plant native to the Amazon Basin in South America. From the impenetrable jungles of the Amazon it has spread like wildfire throughout the tropical and subtropical worlds. And Egypt is no exception …;

The Stream: Taking in Syria’s refugees, 37.03 min, uploaded by Al Jazeera English, Sept 9, 2015 … what‘s preventing wealthy countries, particularly in the Gulf, from opening their doors to Syrian refugees?

REPLAY: retrouvez la conférence de presse de François Hollande en intégralité, 115.10 min, mise en ligne par FRANCE24, le 7 sept 2015;

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL – RALLY FOR IMMIGRANTS du 4 sept 2015, on JANE FINCH STYLE action agains poverty JFAAP, by Saveschools, Sept 4, 2015;

Der Irrsinn der Woche – NDR, 29.27 min, von extra 3 am 2. Sept 2015 hochgeladen;

Book: Base Nation, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project) Hardcover, by David Vine, Aug 25, 2015 (et cet’article on Tom Dispatch);

Wir haben alle versagt – Gregor Gysi im ARD-Sommerinterview, 19.33 min, von Bananenrepublik1 am 16. Aug 2015 hochgeladen;

Ich stelle mich – Gregor Gysi bei Maischberger WDR HD, 59.43 min, von aschneider docs & talks am 20. Juli 2015 hochgeladen … mit Schwester Gabriele Gysi, Lothar de Maizière, Barbara Erdmann;

Eucatastrophe is Greek, on The Confluence, by riverdaughter, June 29, 2015 … (on en.wikipedia: Eucatastrophe is a term coined by J. R. R. Tolkien which refers to the sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible doom …).