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Madly overzealous UK thugs

mardi 2 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Madly overzealous UK thugs had the King family arrested in Spain for taking their sick child out of a hospital, hoping to give him a different treatment elsewhere.

It appears doctors disagree about whether the proton beam treatment they hope to give Ashya King might help him. (See the end of the article.) In any case, the hospital he was in had given up hope for saving him, so there was nothing to lose by trying another treatment except what it would cost.

The hospitals that say the proton beam treatment is better might have been exaggerating to get business. Or it might be true.

Whether it is true or not, whether it saves Ashya King or not, it is clear that his parents were acting responsibly to try to care for him. The accusations of neglect, used to get them arrested in Spain, are impossible to justify.

It appears that the European arrest warrant was issued without a valid legal basis.

Urgent: End to funding militarization of thugs

mardi 2 septembre 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: call for an end to funding militarization of thugs.

Farm guards acquitted of shooting Bangladeshi farm workers

mardi 2 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Farm guards in Greece were acquitted, incredibly, of shooting Bangladeshi farm workers who were protesting that they had been denied their pay.

The farmer owners exploit these migrant workers rather than pay a Greek worker decent wages. I would support the Greek government completely in deporting the migrant workers — and prosecuting the farmers for hiring them. But that is no justification for denying them their pay, let alone for shooting them.

Urgent: Pay workers a living wage

mardi 2 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Dunkin Donuts to pay workers a living wage.

ISIS and al-Nusra's funding

lundi 1 septembre 2014 à 14:00

ISIS and al-Nusra continue to get lots of funding from people in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Those states may not be funding them directly, but they permit it to go on.