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Dec 7 2011 2:06PM
Gaza Update (3) Support humanitarian aid

As suggested in my last posting on Gaza , I wasn't planning to post again so soon on Gaza, but here's a personal response to the BBC fiasco … I will leave it to others to make the case more cogently than I, but I do believe the refusal...

Dec 7 2011 2:05PM
A labour movement hero speaks out for Amnesty

This blog is a celebration of 30 years of Amnesty trade union solidarity, or more precisely, the 30th Anniversary of the foundation of Amnesty UK’s Trade Union Network in 1979, which is certainly thriving and striving these days. We’re...

Dec 7 2011 2:05PM
Gaza Update (2): We're not going away

We’re not fickle at Amnesty, honest. Neither are we inconsistent,temperamental or unreliable. But this blog may give you that impressionfrom time to time so I need to set the record right straight away. Iam returning to the crisis in...

Dec 7 2011 2:05PM
Workers rights broadcast from Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square!

Blimey! Bingo! Brilliant! I got a slot on the “One & Other” project of artist Antony Gormley – A chance to spend an hour on the most glamorous soapbox ever offered to me – the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square! You can watch the...

Dec 7 2011 2:04PM
Roll up; roll up for the Amnesty AGM and Conference!

I’ve suggested before that what bonds Amnesty and the labour movement most profoundly – alongside our shared values – is that we are both activist movements that recognise the power of solidarity and that we are both rank-and-file...