March 28, London - Free West Papua
Horrifying footage has emerged of a group of Indonesian soldiers torturing a West Papuan man. Join us this Thursday outside the Indonesian Embassy to protest this crime against humanity and the military occupation that produced it.
Torture is so commonplace in West Papua that it has been described as a ‘mode of governance’. This incident only made the news because the soldiers filmed themselves kicking, punching, and slashing their victim; every year, untold numbers of West Papuans suffer the same fate without the world ever finding out. Indonesia’s sense of impunity is aided by unquestioning Western government support and a sixty-year media blackout brutally imposed by the occupying forces.
Come along this Thursday to show your solidarity with West Papuans.
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Around the Mound.
Clifford's Tower, York, England sat atop a mound of daffodils.
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Wordsworth would be so pleased to see these daffodils every spring!
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Just at that final moment before the sun disappeared and the rain and hale took over. the light was just so intense. Glastonbury Tor this morning.
(Michelle Cowbourne via X)
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Thousands of disabled people died after ‘covid treatment withheld’, inquiry to probe
Thousands of disabled people who died from Covid in the early weeks of the pandemic may have been denied intensive care treatment in NHS hospitals that could have saved them, campaigners and bereaved families believe.
The Covid inquiry has been handed evidence from charities and bereaved family groups showing that Do Not Resuscitate notices (DNARs) were placed on the medical files of many people with Down’s Syndrome, autism and other learning disabilities who were otherwise healthy before contracting the virus.
These notices, often placed without the patients’ understanding or consent, say charities, were due to those with learning disabilities being wrongly classed as “clinically frail” in the NHS in the initial weeks of the pandemic in March 2020.
Lady Hallett’s inquiry is expected to investigate whether so-called “ward-based ceilings of care” – meaning a patient was kept on a general ward rather than admitted to ICU, even if their condition deteriorated – were applied arbitrarily to the disabled, as well as older patients, in a bid to ease pressure on the NHS.
The evidence is likely to form a key part of Module 3 of the inquiry, which focuses on the healthcare response to the pandemic and is being held in public this autumn.
The Department of Health and NHS England have long denied there were blanket protocols in place for DNARs for groups of people, and have said these policies should not be used by trusts.
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