Block The Bridge, Block The Bill, 9th October:<\/strong><\/a> “On
Sunday October 9th, join UK Uncut on Westminster Bridge and help block the
bill. On one side of Westminster Bridge is Parliament. On 7th September,
MPs in the Commons voted for the end of the NHS as we know it. On the
opposite side of the bridge is St Thomas\u2019 Hospital, one of
Britain\u2019s oldest medical institutions. If the bill passes, hospitals
like St Thomas\u2019 will be sold to private corporations, the staff put
on private payrolls and beds given over to private patients. Despite the
government\u2019s lies, this bill represents the wholesale privatization
of the NHS and, with it, the destruction of the dream of comprehensive
healthcare provided equally to all. We will not let a coalition of
millionaire politicians and private health lobbyists destroy our NHS. Be
on Westminster Bridge for 1pm on October 9th and together let\u2019s block
this bill from getting to our hospitals.”\n
I work at one of the hospitals UKUncut are talking about. It looks no
better from the inside. We’re having our birthday party < 48 hours
before (you're totally invited! see below!), but I will be hauling
myself out of bed for this. Readers, join Team BadRep as we revolt
against both Torygeddon and our inevitable shared hangover in one giant
last stand.<\/li>\n
TUC March For The Alternative: 2nd October<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
All Out:<\/strong><\/a> our new favourite campaign. “We
are organizing online and on the ground to build a world where
every person can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
Gay, lesbian, bi, transgender or straight, we need you to go All
Out to build this historic movement for equality.” The
page on Alice N’Kom, Cameroonian attorney and activist, is
particularly inspiring: “I’m
66, and in ten years of defending LGBT people in Cameroon, it
has never been this bad.”<\/a><\/li>\n
WomanKind Worldwide’s Overseas Aid
Mythbuster<\/strong><\/a>: “Print off this page, put
it in your bag and next time you hear someone complain about
the UK giving money overseas challenge them with the
facts.”<\/li>\n
Say Yes to Gay YA:<\/strong> authors Rachel Manija
Brown and Sherwood Smith on young adult fiction and
sexuality:<\/a> “The overwhelming white
straightness of the YA sf and fantasy sections may have
little to do with what authors are writing, or even with
what editors accept. Perhaps solid manuscripts with
LGBTQ protagonists rarely get into mainstream
editors\u2019 hands at all, because they are been
rejected by agents before the editors see them. How many
published novels with a straight white heroine and a
lesbian or black or disabled best friend once had those
roles reversed, before an agent demanded a change? This
does not make for better novels. Nor does it make for a
better world.”<\/li>\n
COME TO OUR BIRTHDAY PARTY ON OCTOBER 7!<\/strong>
We wanna meet you! Find out
more and RSVP here!<\/a><\/ul>\n