#community cohesion

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‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion

People have formed networks of practical support in response to the growing numbers of migrants seeking help

[protoslacker]

In the USA the healthcare system has been explicitly designed to ration access to care through insurance and hospital for-profit corporations--medicine as a business. Millions of Americans are effectively excluded from receiving healthcare. 

The most frequently cited reason for social distancing and stay at home orders are to flatten the infection rate curve so the healthcare system isn’t overwhelmed. Rarely are rationals for public health and safety stated.

Robinson Meyer and Alexis Madrigal piece in The Atlantic made the point that even while the number of new cases of Covid-19 are growing, the number of tests, which are almost entirely rationed by the Insurance/Hospital system, are not. The result is that there is an appearance of “flattening the curve”  that is simply an artifact of healthcare rationing and a lack of a community healthcare response. 

Liberating the spread of the virus in states with Democratic governors as President Trump demands will have far greater consequences than merely overwhelming the health care industry. 

Together, we Americans are so myopic! 

[making-changes-community]

https://www.ambitionforageing.org.uk/festival Making Changes community group delivered a project named ‘Celebration Selfie’. Artist Sandra Bouguerch devised an activity which celebrated ageing in a positive light. A photographic documentation activity is based on our relationship between public and personal. Visual identity which attempts to breakdown social stereotypes. Concept and delivery is by a professional artist using a smartphone alongside a Selphy Canon CP910 printer.

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Bolton Cares Group

Bolton Disability Day Service Day Centre 

[rexmagnus]

By gaining multilingual skills, children from ethnic minorities have better opportunities to access jobs and higher education later in life. The program is funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund.

       Social and economic inequality in Kyrgyzstan often coincides with ethnic fault lines. Osh, which borders on both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, scores low compared to most other regions on many development indicators.

       In 2010, Osh province was at the center of a violent conflict between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, in which several hundred people were killed and some 400,000 displaced. Although a successful peace recovery has lead to relative political stability, the situation remains precarious.

       ‘Any problem can be resolved’        

       Dilnoz Nabieva firmly believes in multilingualism as a means to build trust and harmony: ‘I know four languages – I speak Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and a little English. I know from personal experience that knowing languages improves understanding between people of different nationalities. And when there is understanding, any question can be resolved’, she says.

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Losers vs winners

America is the only country on earth — with the possible exception of Great Britain, that other nation of shopkeepers — in which a reality show based around the terror of being humiliated and fired by a petty tyrant would be watched by anyone. In France — that punching bag, and the country America loves to call cowardly — employees regularly attack their bosses when threatened, a pluckiness entirely alien to the would-be tough guys of the American right. For all their bluster, The Apprentice works because Americans crave the approval and success withheld in normal life, grudgingly given to one contestant. A slice gets cut from the billionaire’s pie.

The losers who believe this fairy tale might happen for them — or, failing that, that Trump might at least even the score — are scary when massed. But even in their numbers, they are already dying, receding. It’s because they had taken to bed to die that Trump gained their affinity to begin with.

They will be dangerous, scared, and paranoid after Trump loses on Tuesday; there may be violence committed by his acolytes. But Trump’s proto-fascist front is right on a sole count: America isn’t that great for a lot of people who live in it. It is the “winners” — that vast panoply of elite crooks and hacks who needn’t concern themselves with the little people — whose arrogance and greed rotted out America from the inside, tilling the soil for the calamities we now face.

Trump should be a wake-up call — a frightening enough harbinger that the American dream is a dead end, leading only to failure, frustration, and thoughts of revenge. It won’t be; the demon will be exorcised. The crisis will continue, and the most pressing needs of an unequal and tortured society will not be addressed. The most basic and sensible of policies, such as those espoused by Bernie Sanders, will be strangled in DC — a market captured town, anyway. Hillary Clinton will be president, and business will carry on as normal.

Let no one say they didn’t know of what we are capable. The fleeting chance of an alternative is the only thing worth struggling for.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS: WHY IS THE WORLD IN SUCH A MESS.

THE BEADY EYE ASKS: WHY IS THE WORLD IN SUCH A MESS.

I AM SURE LIKE ME YOU CAN RATTLE OFF HUNDREDS OF REASONS. But the world is that what humans have made out of it. Five centuries of European colonialism and global culture-trashing, and the remaking of the world in the economic interests of competing empires, cannot be undone by a single institution and a cluster of lofty ideals. The world, as it now exists, was largely shaped by the colonial…

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Community cohesion – PCC candidate William Morris asks what it mean

Community cohesion – PCC candidate William Morris asks what it mean

The more fragmented we are as a society the more vulnerable we are to violence and crime, and in a worst case scenario, terrorism, says Police and Crime Commissioner candidate William Morris. (more…)

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