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Last month I posted about the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s effort to block a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet from Israel at the Edinburgh Intern...

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Find the missing Labour bloggers (45 mins ago)

Back in the early days of B4L, before the Labour blogosphere was fully mapped, I could rely upon a handful of very helpful people to seek out bloggers I hadn't yet com...

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Blogging is fairly new. It may prove useful for trade unionists. When I started blogging it occurred to me that, although I thought what I was doing – in reporting ba...

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Offer Asylum to Iraqis Working for the British Armed Forces - 1 comment

I should have linked to this campaign much earlier, but I'm now displaying the banner in the left-hand sidebar, and here's a link to the Facebook group, which has now reached 400 members. Here's what it's all about:
"This is very simple: our forces went to Iraq (for right or wrong - that's not important right now) and needed support from local people, interpreters for example. Brave and intelligent people provided the support our forces needed and continue to do so.

But at a price. They are being kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed.

You may have heard that the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Defence are looking into it.

Until policy changes we need to keep up pressure on the government to act. If you haven't written to your MP, please do: http://www.writetothem.com

Some guidance on what you might wish to write is here.

If you haven't signed the petition, please do - it takes only a moment.

If you would like to raise awareness:
  1. Please invite people to join this group.
  2. Watch and share the following video from Bloggerheads.
  3. Keep everyone else posted with updates on the wall below.
And if you do hear from your MP, drop Justin a note at Chicken Yoghurt, so we can keep a tag on which of our representatives are responding."

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At 7:07 AM, August 24, 2007, Blogger Benjamin said...

Good post.

I urge all to support this campaign.

   

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