cmrn @cmrn - Tumblr Blog

If you think something is simple, you're not asking the right questions.

@tamsienwest, The Reluctant Muse

#quote #quotes #inspiring quotes #think about it #quoteoftheday #life is complicated

EXCLUSIVE: Criticising the Australian flag will get you suspended from LaTrobe University. Chris Graham reports. Roz Ward – a respected Melbourne academic and one of the co-founders of the Safe Schools program – has been suspended from her job at La Trobe University this afternoon, over a private Facebook post which criticised the Australian flagMore

Roz Ward has been suspended from her academic position at LaTrobe University for having the audacity to have a political opinion on her private facebook profile.

Roz has done so much to build the Safe Schools programme, she deserves to be defended from these attacks by the right wing media and conservative commentators.

Show your support for Roz:

Like the Facebook page We Stand With Roz

Sign the Change.org petition

Use the hashtag #IStandWithRozWard

#SafeSchools #IStandWithRozWard

fishingboatproceeds

In which John discusses the Syrian refugee crisis and the growing number of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Eritrea crossing the sea with the help of smugglers to seek refuge in European Union nations.

Also discussed: The difference between migrants and refugees, the rights of refugees as established by international law, the globalization of all regional crises, and how the death of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi galvanized the world.

PLACES TO GIVE:

The UNHCR.

Save the Children fundraiser created by author Patrick Ness.

(Click through for sources.)